Addressing the Challenges of Today's Labor Market

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Date/Time:Tuesday, 15 Apr 2014 at 8:00 pm
Location:Great Hall, Memorial Union
Cost:Free
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Phone:515-294-9934
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Katharine G. Abraham, former commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, was a member of the Council of Economic Advisers from 2011 to 2013. A graduate of Iowa State, she is currently Professor of Economics and Survey Methodology at the University of Maryland, where she has also been appointed the first director of the Maryland Center for Economics and Policy. National Affairs Series on Innovation & Women in STEM Series

Abraham's research has included work on employment and unemployment, labor market policy and the measurement of economic activity. She served as Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics from 1993 to 2001. Prior to that she held appointments in the University of Maryland Department of Economics; the Brookings Institution; and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management. She is a Fellow of the Society of Labor Economists and of the American Statistical Association, holds an honorary doctorate from Iowa State University, and is a past vice president of the American Economic Association. She earned her BS in economics from Iowa State in 1976 and later a PhD in economics from Harvard University.