Economics
COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES
School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs
Northeastern University
360 Huntington Avenue
301 Lake Hall
Boston, MA 02115-5000
phone: 617.373.2882
fax: 617.373.3640
econ@neu.edu
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Developed byFaculty in Labor Economics
- Neil Alper, Associate Professor
Economics of Art and Culture, Labor Economics
Professor Alper's research has focused on characteristics of the labor market for artists, including a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to study the trends in artists' employment and earnings (with Professor Wassall). - William Dicekens, Distinguished Professor of Economics and Social Policy
Labor Markets, Wage Determination, Unemployment, Intelligence Testing, and Psychology and Economics
Professor Dickens is currently co-director of a major international research project on wage rigidity, a collaborative effort involving The Brookings Institution, the New York Federal Reserve Bank, the European Central Bank, and economists from 13 country teams. He is also a non-resident senior fellow in the Economics Studies Program at The Brookings Institution (where he was in residence from 1994 to 2007), and was formerly a senior economist for the President's Council of Economic Advisers. - Andrew Sum, Professor and Director, CLMS
Labor Economics
Professor Sum is Director of the Center for Labor Market Studies, which was established in 1978 and is active in securing research funding. Activities of the center include research on labor market developments, trends and problems, and employment and training policies and programs; producing a variety of publications on the above topics; providing technical assistance and training activities; working with national, regional, state, and local employment and training organizations and professional research associations; and disseminating research and evaluation findings to the national and local media.