Katharine Abraham
| Katherine Abraham | |
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Abraham in 1993
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| Commissioner of Labor Statistics Bureau of Labor Statistics |
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In office October 1993 – October 2001 |
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| Preceded by | Janet L. Norwood |
| Succeeded by | Kathleen Utgoff |
| Member of the Council of Economic Advisers | |
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In office 2011–2013 |
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| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Cecilia Rouse |
| Succeeded by | Betsey Stevenson |
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August 28, 1954 Ames, Iowa |
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Sloan School of Management, MIT University of Maryland, College Park |
| Field | labor economics |
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Katharine G. Abraham (born 28 August 1954) is the Director of the Maryland Center for Economics and Policy, and a professor of Survey Methodology and Economics at the University of Maryland. She was Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics from 1993–2001 and a member of the Council of Economic Advisers from 2011–2013.
Abraham holds a BS degree in Economics from Iowa State University (1976) and a PhD in Economics from Harvard University (1982). She was an assistant professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management and a Research Associate at the Brookings Institution before joining the faculty at the University of Maryland in 1988.
During her time as Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Abraham laid the groundwork for the American Time Use Survey, the first U.S. government survey of time use, and established the Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee. During extensive public debate on the Consumer Price Index in the 1990s, Abraham testified repeatedly before Congress on the shortcomings of existing methodology and the necessity of making revisions based on objective research. She expanded coverage of the prices of services in the Producer Price Index; instituted improvements in the Current Employment Statistics, including the substitution of a probability sample for the quota sample; accelerated delivery of employment and wage statistics; and took steps toward expanding coverage of wages and salaries in the Occupational Employment Statistics program.
Abraham's research has included studies of the effects of job duration on wages; the effects of advertising on job vacancies, wages and the business cycle; and comparisons among the U.S., European, and Japanese labor markets; work-sharing policies, unemployment, and job openings; the operation of internal labor markets; and the measurement of market and nonmarket economic activity.
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