Katharine G. Abraham is Distinguished University Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland. Her recent research includes papers on nonstandard work arrangements and the gig economy; work and retirement at older ages; student financial aid; trends in labor force participation; and the measurement of economic conditions and activity. She served as Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics from 1993 through 2001 and as a Member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers from 2011 through 2013. She also chaired the Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking, whose recommendations formed the basis for the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018. She currently serves as President-Elect of the American Economic Association (AEA) and Chair of the Committee on National Statistics, National Academy of Sciences (NAS). Abraham is an NAS member, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a distinguished fellow of the AEA. Abraham received her Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University and her B.S. in economics from Iowa State University.
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- Explaining the Decline in the U.S. Employment-to-Population Ratio: A Review of the Evidence, , Journal of Economic Literature 58(3 ), 585-643, September .
- Probing for Informal Work Activity, , Journal of Official Statistics, 487-508, September .
- The Consequences of Long Term Unemployment: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data, , ILR Review 72(2 ), 266-299, March .
- Short-Time Compensation as a Tool to Mitigate Job Loss? Evidence on the US Experience During the Recent Recession, , Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, 53(4):543-567. 53(4 ), 543-567, October .
- Exploring Differences in Employment Between Household and Establishment Data, , Journal of Labor Economics 31(2 ), S129-S172, April .
- Accounting for Investments in Formal Education, , Survey of Current Business 90(6 ), 42-53, January .
- Are the New Jobs Good Jobs?, , Labor in the New Economy, ed. by Katharine Abraham, J.R. Speltzer, M. Harper. The University of Chicago Press, 101-143, January .
- Labor in the New Economy, , National Bureau of Economic Research: Studies in Income and Wealth,The University of Chicago Press 71, January .
- How Social Processes Distort Measurement: The Impact of Survey Nonresponse on Estimates of Volunteer Work in the United States, , American Journal of Sociology 114(4 ), 1129-1165, January .
- New evidence on the returns to job skills, , American Economic Review 99(2 ), 52-57, May .
- Removing Barriers to Work for Older Americans, , A Future of Good Jobs, ed. by T. Bartik, S. Houseman. Upjohn Institute, Kalamazoo, Michigan, chap. 5, pp. 161-201., January .
- Health-related Activities in the American Time Use Survey, , Medical Care 45(7 ), 680-685, July .
- A Framework for Nonmarket Accounting, , A New Architecture for the U S National Accounts, ed. by Landefeld, S and Nordhaus, W, University of Chicago Press, Chicago., January .
- Financial Aid and Students' College Decisions: Evidence from the District of Columbia's Tuition Assistance Grant Program, , Journal of Human Resources 41(3 ), 578-610, July .
- 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, January .
- Beyond the Market: Designing Nonmarket Accounts for the United States, , National Academies Press, January .
- Distinguished Lecture on Economics in Government-What We Don't Know Could Hurt Us: Some Reflections on the Measurement of Economic Activity, , Journal of Economic Perspectives 19(3 ), 3-18, July .
- Meeting Policy-Markers' Information Needs: Lessons from the U S Experience, , The Great Indian Poverty Debate, ed. by A. Deaton and V. Kozel, Macmillan India Ltd., 27-34, January .
- Microdata Access and Labor Market Research: The U S Experience, , Allgemeines Statistisches Archiv 89(12 ), 121-140, June .
- Work and Retirement Plans among Older Americans, , Re-inventing the Retirement Paradigm, ed. by Clark, R and Mitchell, O, chap. 5, pp. 70-91, Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford., January .
- At Home and Abroad: US Labor Market Performance in International Perspective - A Review, , Journal of Economic Literature 42(2 ), 523-533, January .
- Data for Managing Tight Labor Markets: The New Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, , Chance 16(2 ), 58-62, January .
- Towards a Cost-of-Living Index: Progress and Prospects, , Journal of Economic Perspectives, 17(1):45-58. 17(1 ), 45-58, March .
- Changes in Unemployment Duration and Labor Force Attachment, , The Roaring Nineties, ed. by A. B. Krueger and R. M. Solow, 367-420, January .
- Research on Price Index Measurement: Agendas for the Next Twenty Years, , Journal of Economic and Social Measurement 27(3-4 ), 99-130, January .
- Price Index Research in the Coming Decades, , Monthly Labor Review 123(9 ), 31-36, September .
- Research on Price Index Measurement: Agendas for the Next Twenty Years: Comments, , NBER Panel Discussion, July .
- Why Do Different Wage Series Tell Different Stories?, , The American Economic Review 89(2 ), 34-39, May .
- Divergent Trends in Alternative Wage Series, , Labor Statistics Measurement Issues, ed. by John C. Haltiwanger, M. Manser, and R. Topel, University of Chicago Press, 293-325, January .
- Returns to Seniority in Union and Nonunion Jobs: A New Look at the Evidence, , Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 42(1):3-19. 42(1 ), 3-19, October .
- Working to Improve the Consumer Price Index, , The Journal of Economic Perspectives 12(1 ), 27-36, January .
- A View from the Federal Statistical System, , American Journal of Agricultural Economics 79(5 ), 1394-1400, December .
- The CPI Commission: Discussion, , American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 87(2 ), 94-98, May .
- Firms' Use of Outside Contractors: Theory and Evidence, , Journal of Labor Economics 14(3 ), 394-424, July .
- Improvements in the BLS Safety and Health Statistical System, , Monthly Labor Review 119(4 ), 3-12, March .
- The State of Our Economic Intelligence: Where We`ve Been and Where We`re Going, , Jerome Levy Economics Institute, December .
- Earnings Inequality in Germany, , Differences and Changes in Wage Structures, ed. by R.B. Freeman and L.F. Katz, University of Chicago Press, 371-404, January .
- Labor Adjustment Under Different Institutional Structures, , Institutional Frameworks and Labor Market Performance, ed. by Friedrich Buttler, Wolfgang Franz, Ronald Schettkat, and David Soskice, Routeledge, 285-315, January .
- Real wages and the business cycle, , Journal of Economic Literature 33(3 ), 1215-1264, September .
- Does Employment Protection Inhibit Labor Market Flexibility? Lessons from Germany, France and Belgium, , Social Protection versus Economic Flexibility, January .
- Female workers as a buffer in the Japanese economy, , The American Economic Review 83(2 ), 45-51, May .
- Job Security in America: Lessons from Germany, , Brookings Institution Press, January .
- Mismatch and Labour Mobility: Some Final Remarks, , Mismatch and Labour Mobility, ed. by F. Padoa-Schioppa, Centre for Economic Policy Research, 453-481, January .
- New Developments in the Labor Market: Toward A New Institutional Paradigm, , MIT Press, January .
- Restructuring the Employment Relationship: The Growth of Market-Mediated Work Arrangements, , New Developments in the Labor Market: Toward a New Institutional Paradigm, ed. by K.G. Abraham and R.B. McKersie. MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, chap. 4, pp. 85-119., January .
- Job Security and Work Force Adjustment: How Different Are U.S. and Japanese Practices?, , Journal of the Japanese and International Economies 3(4 ), 500-521, December .
- Flexible Staffing Arrangements and Employers' Short-term Adjustment Strategies, , Employment, Unemployment and Labour Utilization, ed. by R.A. Hart, Unwin Hyman Press, 288-311, January .
- Help Wanted Advertising, Job Vacancies and Unemployment, , Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 18(1 ), 207-243, January .
- Job Duration, Seniority and Earnings, , American Economic Review 77(3 ), 278-297, June .
- Cyclical Unemployment: Sectoral Shifts or Aggregate Disturbances?, , Journal of Political Economy 94(3 ), 507-522, June .
- Structural/Frictional vs. Deficient Demand Unemployment: Reply, , American Economic Review 76(1 ), 273-276, March .
- Length of service and promotions in union and nonunion work groups, , Industrial and Labor Relations Review 38(3 ), 408-420, April .
- Length of Service and Layoffs in Union and Nonunion Work Groups, , Industrial and Labor Relations Review 38(1 ), 87-97, October .
- Structural/Frictional vs. Deficient Demand Unemployment: Some New Evidence, , American Economic Review 73(4 ), 708-724, September .
- Length of Service and the Operation of Internal Labor Markets, , Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the Industrial Relations Research Association, 308-319, December .
- Unemployment, Unsatisfied Demand for Labor, and Compensation Growth, 1956-1980, , Workers, Jobs and Inflation, ed. by M.N. Baily. The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., chap. -, pp. 49-88., January .
- Are those paid more really more productive? The case of experience, , Journal of Human Resources 16(2 ), 186-216, April .
- Experience, Performance and Earnings, , The Quarterly Journal of Economics 95(4 ), 703-736, January .
