Department of Economics

 

 

Dr. Wei-Chiao Huang

Ph.D, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1989

Professor

5424, Friedman Hall

Phone: 269-387-5528

Email: Wei-Chiao.Huang@wmich.edu

 

 

Areas of Interest:
Labor Economics and Applied Microeconomics

Current Research: Labor Market Issues; Analysis of Seemingly Non-Economic Human Behavior; Testing Scientific Validity of Chinese Astrology.

Selected Publications:

"Cyclical Employment Changes in Taiwanese Industry" in Labor Market Trends in Taiwan's New Knowledge Economy (Joseph Lee ed.) 2006.

“Are Shocks Asymmetric to Volatility of Chinese Stock Markets?” (with Y. Zhu). Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies Vol. 7, No. 3 (2004) 379-395

"The Instability of Unskilled Earnings,” (with Michael Mamo) Industrial Relations Research Association 2004 Proceedings (Refereed Section).

"Labor Unions for Physicians: An Idea Whose Time is Coming?” (with Edwin Lai) Industrial Relations Research Association 2002 Proceedings.

"On the Practical Application of the Profit-Maximization Principle,” (with Jian-Guo Yin) ACME Transactions (2001).

"Discrimination and the U.S. Gender Earnings Gap During the 1980s and 1990s," (with A. Dorantes) ACME Transactions, 1999.

"A 'Life Force' Participation Perspective of Suicide" in The Economy and Suicide, edited by David Lester and Bijou Yang, Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 1997.

"Unemployment, Immigration and NAFTA: A Panel Study of Ten Major U.S. Industries", (with A. Dorantes), Journal of Labor Research, 1997.

"Economic and Social Correlates of Regional Suicide Rates:A Pooled Cross-Section and Time-Series Analysis", (with H. Chuang), Journal of Socio-Economics, 1997.

"Growth of Government Expenditure: The Case of USA", (with G. Mcdonnell), Social Science Journal, 1997.

"Religion, Culture, Economic and Sociological Correlates of Suicide Rates: A Cross-National Analysis", Applied Economics Letters, 1996.

"Suicide Rates in Taiwan", (with H. Chuang), American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 1996.

"The Impact of Proxy Fights on Managerial Turnover: A Test of the Job Security Hypothesis"(with G. Yen), Managerial and Decision Economics, 1996.

"Age, Birthdays, and Suicide in Taiwan", Journal of Social Psychology, 1996.

Human Capital and Economic Development, (ed. with Sisay Asefa) The W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 1994.

"Cross Sectional Analysis of Indirect Professional Immigration to the United States, 1964-1974." (with Vinod Agarwal), International Migration, September 1991.

Organized Labor at the Crossroads, (ed.) The W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 1989.

"Intention to Quit Career or to Quit Current Company: Evidence from A Survey of Packaging Professionals", (with Christopher Lai and Chester Mackson) 41st Annual Proceedings of Industrial Relations Research Association, July 1989.

"An Empirical Analysis of Foreign Student Brain Drain to the U.S.", Economics of Education Review, June, 1988.

"Vertical Integration, Successive Monopoly, and Regulation: A Theoretical Note on the Otter Tail Case" (with Mei-Shiou Lu) Midsouth Journal of Economics and Finance, Winter 1988.

"A Pooled Cross-Section Time-Series Study of Professional Indirect Immigration to the United States", Southern Economic Journal, July 1987.

"Labor Supply, Voluntary Work, and Charitable Contributions in a Model of Utility Maximization" (with Subhash Ray) Eastern Economic Journal, July-September 1986.


Working Papers :
"Frontier Production Function Analysis of Efficiency in Public Schools: The Case of Selected Schools in Michigan", (with M. Mamo)

"Friday the Thirteenth: Is It Really a 'Bad' Day?"
"Product Demand Uncertainty and Work Incentives in Dual Labor Markets", (with A. Sengezer).

A multinominal Logit Analysis of methods used by persons who committed suicide, (with H. Chuang).

“Suicide and Unemployment: Is There a Connection? An Empirical Analysis of Suicide Rates in Taiwan”, (with H. Chuang).

Special Honors:
American Fulbright Exchange Professor to Taiwan, Sept. 2002-June 2003.

Winrock Foundation Visiting Professor, China Agricultural University. July-Aug. 1997.

Honorary Distinguished Professor Xibei (Northwestern) University, July 1997.

Visiting Professor of Economics, Guangxi University, China, 1994.

Visiting Research Fellow, National Science Council and Professor of Economics, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, 1995.

 

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