JPSM - The Joint Program in Survey Methodology

Katharine Abraham
1218 LeFrak Hall, College Park, MD 20742
(301) 314-7911 Voice (301) 314-7912 Fax

kabraham@survey.umd.edu

Position/Title: Professor of Survey Methodology and Adjunct Professor of Economics

Department Affiliation: JPSM, Department of Economics

Research Interests: Economic measurement, internal labor markets, labor market dynamics and unemployment.

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

PhD Year and University: 1982, Harvard University

Selected Publications:

"Towards a Cost-of-Living Index: Progress and Prospects," Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2003, pp. 27-36.

"Changes in Unemployment Duration and Labor Force Attachment," with R. Shimer, in A.B. Krueger and R. M Solow, eds., The Roaring Nineties, New York: The Russell Sage Foundation, 2002, pp. 367-420.

"Divergent Trends in Alternative Wage Series," with J. Spletzer and J. Stewart, in J.C. Haltiwanger, M. Manser and R. Topel, eds., Labor Statistics Measurement Issues, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998, pp. 293-325.

"Firms' Use of Outside Contractors: Theory and Evidence," with S.K. Taylor, Journal of Labor Economics, July 1996, pp. 394-424.

"Does Employment Protection Inhibit Labor Market Flexiblity: Lessons from Germany, France, and Belgium," with S.N. Houseman, in R.M. Blank, ed., Social Protection versus Economic Flexibility, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994, pp. 59-93.

Job Security in America: Lessons from Germany, with S.N. Houseman, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1993.

"Restructuring the Employment Relationship: The Growth of Market-Mediated Work Arrangements," in K.G. Abraham and R.B. McKersie, eds., New Developments in the Labor Market: Toward a New Institutional Paradign, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990, pp. 85-119.

"Job Duration, Seniority and Earnings," with H.S. Farber, American Economic Review, June 1987, pp. 278-297.

"Help Wanted Advertising, Job Vacancies and Unemployment," Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1987:1, pp. 207-243.

"Length of Service and Layoffs in Union and Nonunion Work Groups," with J.L. Medoff, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, October 1984, pp. 87-97.

"Structural/Frictional versus Deficient Demand Unemployment: Some New Evidence," Americn Economic Review, September 1983, pp. 708-724.

"Experience, Performance and Earnings," with J.L. Medoff, Quarterly Journal of Economics, December 1980, pp. 703-736.