Erica Groshen
| Erica L. Groshen | |
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| Commissioner of Labor Statistics U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics |
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In office January 28, 2013 – January 27, 2017 |
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Barack Obama Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | John M. Galvin (Acting) |
| Succeeded by | William Wiatrowski (Acting) |
| Preceded by | Keith Hall |
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| Born | August 6, 1954 |
| Alma mater |
University of Wisconsin-Madison (B.S.) Harvard University (Ph.D.) |
Erica L. Groshen (born August 6, 1954) is the former Commissioner of Labor Statistics and head of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the independent, principal fact-finding agency for the U.S. government in the broad fields of labor economics and statistics, inflation, and productivity. BLS is part of the U.S. Department of Labor. For information on her activities at BLS, see the BLS Commissioner's Corner blog.
Groshen was nominated for the BLS post in February, 2012, and confirmed unanimously by the U.S. Senate in January, 2013. Her term ended on January 27, 2017.
Previously, Groshen served as a vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Dr. Groshen’s research focuses on jobless recoveries, regional labor markets, wage rigidity and dispersion, the male-female wage differential, service-sector employment, and the role of employers in labor market outcomes. She co-authored the book How New is the “New Employment Contract”? from the W.E. Upjohn Institute Press and co-edited Structural Changes in U.S. Labor Markets: Causes and Consequences, from M.E. Sharpe, Inc. She has published numerous papers in academic and Federal Reserve journals and co-led the sixteen-country International Wage Flexibility Project. She was a founding editor of the New York Fed’s Liberty Street Economics Blog and also an editor of the Current Issues in Economic and Finance and Economic Policy Review publication series.
She has served as a member of the BLS Data Users’ Advisory Committee and the Census Bureau’s 2010 Census Advisory Committee and also as an American Economic Association representative to the Census Advisory Committee of Professional Associations. She was also a Research Fellow of the IZA Institute of Labor Economics, a private independent economic research institute focused on the analysis of global labor markets and served on the Board of Reviewers for Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economics and Society from 1991 until 2013.
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