The Philadelphia Council for Business Economics
A Chapter of NABE

is pleased to present

Eileen Appelbaum
Rutgers University
School of Management and Labor Relations

Presentation: "Adjustment to Negative Shocks: A Cross-National Comparison of U.S. and European Labor Markets in the Great Recession."

Eileen Appelbaum joined Rutgers University as Professor and Director of the Center for Women and Work in March 2002. She was promoted to Professor II July 2006. Formerly she was Research Director at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, D.C. and Professor of Economics at Temple University. She spent several summers as a Guest Research Fellow at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB). In 1995 Dr. Appelbaum was elected to a three-year term on the Executive Board of the IRRA, and from 2000-06 she served on the IRRA Editorial Committee.From1996 to 2005 she served on the Advisory Council of the WZB. In 2000 Dr. Appelbaum served on the National Academy of Sciences' Commission on the IT Workforce, and in 2002-2005 on New Jersey's Corporate Business Tax Reform Study Commission. She received her PhD. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Appelbaum has 20 years of experience carrying out empirical research on workplace practices and labor-management cooperation. Her research focuses on work processes and work-life practices of organizations. Dr. Appelbaum has studied and written extensively about employee participation. She is currently conducting research on work place practices in early care and education. Dr. Appelbaum has published numerous articles on workforce, employment and labor market issues. She has also published widely on the labor market experiences of women.

Date: Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Time: 1:00 pm - Presentation begins

Place: Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Directions
            Ten Independence Mall (Seventh & Arch Streets),
            Philadelphia, PA