Mailing Address:
4770 Mayflower Hill
Waterville, Maine 04901-8847
Education
B.A., Vassar College, 1979 Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1986
Areas of Expertise:
Labor economics
Unemployment
Labor market policy
economics of education
Professional Information
Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz, July 2002-, (Economics Department Chair, December 2003 � June 2007) Non-resident Senior Fellow, Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics, October 2003- Visiting Fellow, Institute for International Economics, Washington, DC, August 2000 - July 2001 Associate Professor of Economics, University of California, Santa Cruz, July 1998-June 2002 Resident Scholar, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, November 1999 Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, January-June 1998 Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1993-1998 Visiting Associate Professor of Economics, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1992-93 Associate Professor of Economics (with tenure), Williams College, July 1993-June 1994 Assistant Professor of Economics, Williams College, 1986-93 Visiting Fellow, The Brookings Institution, Economic Studies Program, Washington, D.C.,
Current Research
Size and scope of services offshoring; Long-term unemployment; policy responses
Publications
Job Loss from Imports: Measuring the Costs, Institute for International Economics, Washington, DC, September 2001. Imports, Exports, and Jobs: What does trade mean for employment and job loss?, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, Kalamazoo, MI, December 2002. �Trade-related Job Loss and Wage Insurance: A Synthetic Review,� Review of International Economics, Volume 12, Issue 5, November 2004, pp. 724-748. �Tradable Services: Understanding the Scope and Impact of Services Offshoring,� (with J. Bradford Jensen) in Brookings Trade Forum 2005, �Offshoring White-Collar Work � The Issues and the Implications,� Susan M. Collins and Lael Brainard, editors, 2006, pp. 75-134. �Trade and Immigration: Implications for the U.S. Labor Market,� in A Future of Good Jobs: American�s Challenge in the Global Economy, Timothy Bartik and Susan Houseman, eds., Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2008, pps. 119-160. �Measuring Tradable Services and the Task Content of Offshorable Services Jobs,� in Labor in the New Economy, Katharine Abraham, Mike Harper and James Spletzer, eds., University of Chicago Press, forthcoming.