Jennifer Hunt
Jennifer Anne Hunt (* 1965 in Australia ) is an American economist . Her main focus is in the field of labor economics .
Career, research and teaching
Hunt was born in Australia and grew up in Switzerland . As a teenager she worked there as a ski instructor, among other things . In 1983 she completed her school education in Switzerland with an International Baccalaureate and then went to the United States to study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . There she graduated in 1987 as a Scientiæ Baccalaureus in electrical engineering and then moved to Harvard University , where she successfully completed her Ph.D. Degree in economics.
In 1992 Hunt went to Yale University , where she initially worked as an assistant professor and from 1997 as an associate professor . After a three-year stay at the University of Montreal , she moved to McGill University in 2004 . There she was appointed full professor in 2007 . In 2011 she followed a call from Rutgers University , where she has held the James Cullen Chair since 2015 . She has visited the University of British Columbia , the University of Milan and the Autonomous University of Barcelona, among others .
Between January 2013 and March 2014, Hunt was chief economist at the US Department of Labor , and between 2000 and 2002 she advised the German Science Council . She is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Research Fellow at the London Center for Economic Policy Research and at the Bonn Research Institute on the Future of Work .
Hunt's research and teaching focus on various aspects of labor economics, in particular the effects of immigration , crime , corruption , wage differentials and economies in the transition from communism .
Web links
- Homepage at Rutgers University
- Jennifer Hunt in the IDEAS database
Individual evidence
- ↑ diw.de: "SOEP People: Five Questions to Jennifer Hunt" (accessed on February 14, 2019)
- ↑ mcgill.ca: "With Prof. Jennifer Hunt, Labor Economist" (accessed February 14, 2019)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hunt, Jennifer |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hunt, Jennifer Anne |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American economist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Australia |