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Abraham, Katharine G. |
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University of Maryland, College Park |
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Economic Sciences |
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Abraham examines ongoing changes in the labor market and the role of policy in improving employment outcomes. |
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Research Interests
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Katharine G. Abraham's research has examined ongoing changes in the labor market and the role of policy in improving employment outcomes. An important thread in her research has been an interest in alternative work arrangements, including employers' motivations for using them and their consequences for workers. A challenge in studying alternative work arrangements has been the paucity of information about them in the surveys economists typically rely on for information about the labor market. Abraham's research has shown how administrative data and better-designed survey questions can contribute to a richer understanding of their evolution and consequences. Abraham also has a continuing interest in the measurement of aggregate labor market conditions. Her work has shown that measures of labor market tightness that consider both unfilled demand (job vacancies) and expanded measures of unutilized supply (including other potential workers in addition to the unemployed) outperform measures based only on the number of unemployed people. Abraham's current research additionally includes work on employment among older adults and the use of new sources of data in the production of official statistics. |
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