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Dr. Emily Hoffman
Ph.D, University of Massachussets- Amherst, 1975
Professor
5317, Friedman Hall
Phone: 269-387-5546
Email: Emily.Hoffman@wmich.edu
Web: http://homepages.wmich.edu/~hoffman
Areas of Interest:
Labor Economics and Microeconomics
Current Research: Duration of Unemployment; Duration of Poverty; and Labor Market Discrimination

Selected Publications:

"Review of "Profiles, Probabilities, and Stereotypes" (by F. Schauer)." Journal of Economic Literature, Dec. 2004, pp.1153-1154.

The Economics of Work and Family, edited by Jean Kimmel and Emily P. Hoffman, 2002, W.E.Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.

"Alternatives for Measuring the Unexplained Wage Gap" jointly with Robert Toutkoushian, in Conducting Salary-Equity Studies: Alternative Approaches to Research, edited by Robert Toutkoushian, a volume in New Directions for Institutional Research, Jossey-Bass, no. 115, Fall 2002.

"The Economics of Stereotyping", in Valuing Us all: Feminist Pedagogy and Economics ed. by April Aerni and KimMarie McGoldrick, University of Michigan Press, 1999.

"Affirmative Action", in Encyclopedia of Political Economy, ed. by Phil O'Hara, Routledge Limited, 1999, pp 6-8.

"Labor Market Discrimination", in Encyclopedia of Political Economy, ed. by Phil O'Hara, Routledge Limited, 1999, pp.640-643.

"Returns to Seniority in the Academic Labor Market: Comparing Estimates", Industrial Relations Research Association, Proceedings of the Forty-ninth Annual Meeting, January 1997, pp. 347-352.

"Are Academic Partners at a Disadvantage?" (with Marianne Ferber) in Academic Couples: Problems and Promises, ed. By Marianne Ferber and Jane Loeb, U. Of Illinois Press, 1997 pp. 182-207.

Essays on The Economics of Education, (ed.) W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 1993.

"Affirmative Action Compliance", Workforce, 1, no. 3, Fall 1992, 14-19.

"Racial Differences in the Feminization of Poverty," Review of Black Political Economy, vol. 21, no. 1, Summer 1992, 19-31.

"Estimation of Length of Job Search by Survival Analysis," Eastern Economic Journal, 17, no. 4, Nov.-Dec. 1991.

"Aid to Families with Dependent Children and Female Poverty", Growth and Change, Spring 1991, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 35-46.

Essays on the Economics of Discrimination, (ed.) W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 1991.

"Determinants of Youth's Educational and Occupational Goals: Sex and Race Differences" Economics of Education Review, no. 1, 1987.

"A Review of Two Studies of Elasticity in Academe", Economics of Education Review, no. 2, 1986.

"Fertility and Female Employment", Quarterly Review of Economics and Business, Spring 1985.

"Economic Progress of Black Women", Economics Letters, no. 2, 1980.

"The Deeper Economics of Sleeping: Important Clues toward the Discovery of Activity X", Journal of Political Economy, June 1977.

"Faculty Salaries: Is There Discrimination by Sex, Race, and Discipline? Additional Evidence," American Economic Review, March, 1976.

Special Honors:

U.S. Dept. of Labor Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, 1974-75

 


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