2008 Usery Lecture
The Andrew Young School of Policy Studies & The Usery Center at Georgia State University announce the
2008 Fourth Annual W.J. Usery Distinguished Lecture
Monday, March 24, 2008, 2:00 p.m.
7th Floor Seminar Room, 14 Marietta St. NW
David Autor, MIT
"Inequality and Specialization: The Growth of Low-Skill Service Jobs in the United States"
David Autor has been at the forefront of research on the changing American workplace. His work focuses on how technological change has altered the skill content and types of jobs in the U.S., the nature and causes of rising earnings inequality, the increasing role of non-standard work relationships (temporary help, outsourcing) and labor intermediation (online job matching, background and personality checks, etc.), and the impacts of disability insurance and wrongful discharge protections.
Autor is an Associate Professor of Economics at MIT and a Faculty Research Fellow in the National Bureau of Economic Research’s Programs on Labor Studies and Education. He received a B.A. in Psychology with a minor in Computer Science from Tufts University and a Ph.D. in Public Policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. He is the recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER award for his research on labor market intermediation and an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship.
Additional information on David Autor is available at his website: http://econ-www.mit.edu/faculty/dautor/
The Lecture is open to all faculty, students and staff. Limited seating on a first-come, first-served basis.
For more information, contact Avani Raval at araval@gsu.edu.
Previous W.J. Usery Distinguished Lectures
2007 Third Annual W.J. Usery Distinguished Lecture
April 19, 749 AYSPS, Lisa Lynch (Tufts University) presented "Organizational Innovation and the New Economy"
2006 Second Annual W.J. Usery Distinguished Lecture
April 27, 749 AYSPS, Alan Krueger (Princeton University) presented "Whither the Social Safety Net?"
2005 Inaugural W.J. Usery Distinguished Lecture
April 8, 749 AYSPS, Richard Freeman (Harvard University) presented "Can We Improve Worker Well-Being in the New Global Economy?"
