Study Guide to Accompany Modern Labor Economics: Theory and Public Policy (
Ronald G. Ehrenbergis the Irving M. Ives Professor of  Industrial and Labor Relations and Economics at Cornell University and  a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow. He is also Director of the  Cornell Higher Education Research Institute. Ehrenberg received a BA in  mathematics from Harpur College (SUNY Binghamton) in 1966 and a PhD in  economics from Northwestern University in 1970. As a member of the  Cornell faculty for 32 years, he has authored or co-authored over 120  papers, and authored or edited 20 books. He was the founding editor ofResearch in Labor Economics,and served a ten-year term as co-editor of theJournal of Human Resources.He  has been a member of several editorial boards and a consultant to  numerous governmental agencies and commissions, as well as numerous  universities and private research corporations.His recent  research has focused on higher education issues. Ehrenberg has  supervised the dissertations of thirty-nine PhD students and served on  committees for countless more. He is also passionate about  undergraduate education, involves undergraduate students in his  research, and has co-authored papers with a number of these  undergraduates. In 2003, ILR-Cornell awarded him the General Mills  Foundation Award for Exemplary Undergraduate Teaching. In 2005, he was  named a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow, the highest award for  undergraduate teaching that exists at Cornell.Ehrenberg has  served as a consultant to faculty and administrative groups as well as  to trustees at a number of colleges and universities on issues relating  to tuition and financial aid policies, faculty compensation policies,  faculty retirement policies, and other budgetary, planning, and  academic issues. Among the institutions he has worked with are Brandeis  University, Oberlin College, Northeastern University, the University of  North Carolina, the University of Chicago, Vanderbilt University, the  U.S. Naval Academy, the National Technical Institute for the Deaf at  the Rochester Institute of Technology, Smith College, the Suffolk  University Law School, and Albany University (SUNY).Robert S. Smith,the  Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the School of Industrial and  Labor Relations at Cornell University, is also a professor in the  school's Labor Economics Department. After receiving his PhD in  Economics at Stanford University in 1971, he taught at the University  of Connecticut and worked as an economist in the U.S. Department of  Labor before coming to Cornell in 1974. He has authored numerous  articles in the field of labor economics.Professor Smith's  research interests have centered on analyses of various labor market  policies, especially those in the safety and health area. Most  recently, he has served as co-principal investigator in the evaluation  of the effects of two pilot programs in New York’s workers’  compensation program: one in the use of managed care and one in the use  of alternative dispute resolution structures.Professor  Smith’s teaching has included the basic required labor economics  courses for undergraduates and for students in the school’s  professional master’s program. In 1999 he received the school’s General  Mills Foundation Award for Innovation in Instruction.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.