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American economist
Katharine G. Abraham
(born August 28, 1954
[3]
) is an American economist who is the director of the Maryland Center for Economics and Policy,
[4]
and a professor of
survey methodology
and
economics
[5]
at the
University of Maryland
. She was commissioner of the
Bureau of Labor Statistics
from 1993?2001
[2]
and a member of the
Council of Economic Advisers
from 2011?2013.
[6]
[7]
She was elected a member of the
National Academy of Sciences
in 2022.
[8]
Education
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Abraham holds a bachelor of science degree in economics from
Iowa State University
(1976) and a Ph.D. in economics from
Harvard University
(1982). She was an assistant professor at
MIT
's
Sloan School of Management
and a research associate at the
Brookings Institution
before joining the faculty at the University of Maryland in 1988.
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Career
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During her time as commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Abraham laid the groundwork for the
American Time Use Survey
, the first U.S. government survey of time use, and established the Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee. During extensive public debate on the
Consumer Price Index
in the 1990s, Abraham testified repeatedly before Congress on the shortcomings of existing methodology and the necessity of making revisions based on objective research.
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She expanded coverage of the prices of services in the
Producer Price Index
; instituted improvements in the Current Employment Statistics, including the substitution of a probability sample for the quota sample; accelerated delivery of employment and wage statistics; and took steps toward expanding coverage of wages and salaries in the
Occupational Employment Statistics
program.
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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.
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Awards
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She is a research associate of the
National Bureau of Economic Research
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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.
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Selected bibliography
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- 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.;
Houseman, Susan N.
(1993).
Job security in America: lessons from Germany
. Washington, D.C: Brookings Institution.
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
.
- Journal articles
- Abraham, Katharine G.;
Houseman, Susan N.
(May 1993). "Female workers as a buffer in the Japanese economy".
The American Economic Review
.
83
(2).
American Economic Association
: 45?51.
JSTOR
2117638
.
- Abraham, Katharine G.;
Houseman, Susan N.
(Summer 1993). "Job security in America: a better approach".
The Brookings Review
.
11
(3): 34?35.
doi
:
10.2307/20080404
.
JSTOR
20080404
.
- Abraham, Katharine G.; Haltiwanger, John C. (September 1995).
"Real wages and the business cycle"
.
Journal of Economic Literature
.
33
(3).
American Economic Association
: 1215?1264.
JSTOR
2729121
.
- Abraham, Katharine G. (March 2003).
"Toward a cost-of-living index: progress and prospects"
.
Journal of Economic Perspectives
.
17
(1): 45?58.
doi
:
10.1257/089533003321164949
.
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.
doi
:
10.1093/poq/nfl037
.
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.
doi
:
10.1257/aer.99.2.52
.
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.
doi
:
10.1086/669062
.
JSTOR
669062
.
S2CID
158263405
.
- Abraham, Katharine G.;
Houseman, Susan N.
(October 2014). "Short-time compensation as a tool to mitigate job loss? Evidence on the U.S. experience during the recent recession".
Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society
.
53
(4): 543?567.
doi
:
10.1111/irel.12069
.
hdl
:
10419/64398
.
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
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References
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Uchitelle, Louis (June 18, 1993).
"Nomination Expected for Labor Post"
.
The New York Times
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"BLS Commissioners' History: Katharine G. Abraham"
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"Abraham, Katharine G."
Name Authority File
. Library of Congress
. Retrieved
March 23,
2016
.
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"Maryland Center for Economics and Policy: About the Director"
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Abraham, Katherine; Haltiwanger, John (October 4, 2013).
"The Shutdown's Data Blackout"
.
The New York Times
.
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"Former Members of the Council of Economic Advisers"
.
whitehouse.gov
– via
National Archives
.
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"White House Author: Katharine Graham"
.
whitehouse.gov
. November 18, 2011.
Archived
from the original on January 26, 2017 – via
National Archives
.
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"2022 NAS Election"
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Rosenblatt, Robert (December 20, 1996).
"Statistics Chief Defends CPI's Accuracy"
.
Los Angeles Times
.
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"Testimony of Katharine G. Abraham Commissioner Of Labor Statistics Before The Senate Finance Committee February 11, 1997"
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"Testimony of Katharine G. Abraham Commissioner of Labor Statistics Before the Subcommittee on Human Resources House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight April 29, 1998"
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"NBER Publications by Katharine G. Abraham"
.
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"Katherine Abraham: The Hamilton Project"
.
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"NBER: Katherine G. Abraham"
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"Katharine Abraham, Distinguished Fellow 2020"
.
www.aeaweb.org
. Retrieved
May 5,
2020
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"Katharine G. Abraham"
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American Academy of Arts & Sciences
. Retrieved
January 7,
2021
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