Katharine Abraham
Katharine Gail Abraham (born August 28, 1958 in Ames , Iowa ) is an American economist and university professor .
Career, research and teaching
Abraham first attended Carleton College between 1972 and 1974 , and in 1976 she graduated from Iowa State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in economics . She continued her studies at Harvard University , where she received her Ph.D. - Graduated with a dissertation entitled "Vacancies, Unemployment and Wage Growth". As early as 1980 she researched and taught as an assistant professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management . There she rose to Associate Professor in 1985 . Subsequently, she was temporarily doing research for the Brookings Institution and the Berlin Science Center for Social Research. In 1987 she moved to the University of Maryland as an associate professor , where she was appointed full professor in 1991.
From 1993 Abraham served in the administration under US President Bill Clinton and worked for the Bureau of Labor Statistics during his eight-year tenure . After a year as visiting professor at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and visiting researcher at Princeton University , she returned to the University of Maryland in 2002 as professor of survey methodology. Between 2011 and 2013 she was a member of the Council of Economic Advisers under Barack Obama . She then took up a chair in economics at the University of Maryland and became director of the Maryland Center for Economics and Policy .
Abraham's work focuses on labor economics , she deals in particular with the effects of government regulations on unemployment and working hours , various methods of measuring employment, unemployment, salaries and working hours, decisions of older people between work and retirement and the effects of financial support when making decisions about personal training.
Abrahams is a member of the American Economic Association , the American Statistical Association and the Society of Labor Economists , of which she was Vice President for one year from 2017. She is a Research Fellow at the Bonn Research Institute for the Future of Work , where she heads the “Labor Statistics” research area as program director. In 2020 Abraham was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
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| SURNAME | Abraham, Katharine |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Abraham, Katharine Gail (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American economist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 28, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ames , Iowa |