Francine Blue

Francine Blue (2016)

Francine Dee Blau (born August 29, 1946 in New York City ) is an American economist who excelled in particular in the field of labor economics .

Career, research and teaching

Blue studied at the Cornell University , who in 1966 with the degree of Bachelor of Science left. She moved to Harvard University , where she graduated with a Master of Arts in economics in 1969 . In 1975 she completed her Ph.D. -Studies at the university.

From 1975, Blau worked at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , initially as an assistant professor and from 1978 as an associate professor . In 1983 she was appointed full professor at the university. In 1995 she returned to Cornell University, where she received a professorship at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations there . There she was research director until 2001 and director at the Institute for Labor Market Policy until 2005 . Between 2011 and 2014 she was a research lecturer at the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin .

From 1993 to 1994, Blau was Vice President of the American Economic Association , where she also temporarily chaired the commission on the status of women in the economic professions. In 2006 she was President of the Society of Labor Economists . She served on the editorial board of the Journal of Labor Economics , of which she was temporarily editor-in-chief, the American Economic Review and the Journal of Labor Research .

Blau has received several awards for her work, including the IZA Prize in Labor Economics, awarded in 2010, and the Jacob Mincer Prize, awarded in 2017, two of the most prestigious awards in the field of labor economics. She has been a Fellow of the Society of Labor Economists since 2003 and a Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science since 2005 . In 2001 she received the Carolyn Shaw Bell Award together with Marianne Ferber .

Blau's main focus is on the economic analysis of inequality, especially between the sexes in the labor market , such as the gender pay gap , affirmative action and the effects of immigration .

Blau is married to the economics professor Lawrence Kahn , who also researches and teaches at Cornell University and with whom she published.

personal data
SURNAME	Blue, Francine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Blue, Francine Dee (full name); Blue, Francine D.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American economist
DATE OF BIRTH	August 29, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH	New York City