Katharine Abraham

Katharine Abraham
Abraham in 1993
Commissioner of Labor Statistics Bureau of Labor Statistics
In office October 1993 – October 2001
President	Bill Clinton George W. Bush
Preceded by	Janet L. Norwood
Succeeded by	Kathleen Utgoff
Member of the Council of Economic Advisers
In office 2011–2013
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	Cecilia Rouse
Succeeded by	Betsey Stevenson
Personal details
Born	(1954-08-28) August 28, 1954 (age 69) labor economics
Alma mater	Iowa State University (BA) Harvard University (PhD)
Awards	Julius Shiskin Award for Economic Statistics (2002)[2] Roger Herriot Award for Innovation in Federal Statistics (2010) Susan C. Eaton Scholar-Practitioner Award of the Labor and Employment Relations Association (2013) Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association (2020)

Katharine G. Abraham (born August 28, 1954

Abraham's research has included studies of the effects of job duration on wages; the effects of advertising on job vacancies, wages and the business cycle; and comparisons among the U.S., European, and Japanese labor markets; work-sharing policies, unemployment, and job openings; the operation of internal labor markets; and the measurement of market and nonmarket economic activity.[12]^[13]

Awards

She is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research^[14] and the recipient of an honorary doctorate by Iowa State University. She has been awarded the Julius Shiskin Award for Economic Statistics (2002),^[2] the Roger Herriot Award for Innovation in Federal Statistics (2010), the Susan C. Eaton Scholar-Practitioner Award of the Labor and Employment Relations Association (2013), and was named a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association in 2020.^[15] She is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Society of Labor Economists.^[4] She was elected to fellowship of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020.^[16]

Selected bibliography

Books

• Abraham, Katharine G.; McKersie, Robert B. (1990). New developments in the labor market: toward a new institutional paradigm. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.
  ISBN 9780262011181
  . Based on papers presented at a conference held at MIT in June 1987.
• Abraham, Katharine G.;
  ISBN 9780815700753
  .
• Abraham, Katharine G.; Mackie, Christopher D. (2005). Beyond the market designing nonmarket accounts for the United States. Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press.
  ISBN 9780309093194
  .
• Abraham, Katharine G.; Spletzer, James R.; Harper, Michael J. (2010). Labor in the new economy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  ISBN 9780226001432
  .

• Abraham, Katharine G.;
  JSTOR 2117638
  .
• Abraham, Katharine G.;
  JSTOR 20080404
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• Abraham, Katharine G.; Haltiwanger, John C. (September 1995). "Real wages and the business cycle".
  JSTOR 2729121
  .
• Abraham, Katharine G. (March 2003). "Toward a cost-of-living index: progress and prospects".
  JSTOR 3216839
  .
• Abraham, Katharine G.; Maitland, Aaron; Bianchi, Suzanne M. (2006). "Nonresponse in the American time use survey: who is missing from the data and how much does it matter?". Public Opinion Quarterly. 70 (5): 676–703.
  S2CID 145566407
  .
• Abraham, Katharine G.; Spletzer, James R. (May 2009). "New evidence on the returns to job skills". The American Economic Review. 99 (2): 52–57.
  JSTOR 25592374
  .
• Abraham, Katharine G.; Haltiwanger, John C.; Sandusky, Kristin; Spletzer, James R. (April 2013). "Exploring differences in employment between household and establishment data" (PDF). Journal of Labor Economics. 31 (S1): S129–S172.
  S2CID 158263405
  .
• Abraham, Katharine G.;
  SSRN 2048540. Pdf.
• Working papers and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) papers.
• Abraham, Katharine G.; Haltiwanger, John C. (March 2019). "The Consequences of Long Term Unemployment: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data". ILR Review. 72 (2): 266–299.
  doi:10.3386/w22665
  .