Daniel Hamermesh
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Americans Work Too Much, and That Needs to Change
Work much lately? As we celebrated the American labor movement with Labor Day, a sad fact that we must face is that U.S. workers work more than their counterparts in other wealthy countries, and it doesn’t benefit us much. The average U.S. workweek is 41 hours, compared with Britain’s 38 hours, Germany’s 37 hours and…
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Labor Economist Daniel Hamermesh Receives Mincer Award for Lifetime Contributions
Daniel Hamermesh, professor of economics at The University of Texas at Austin, has received the Jacob Mincer Award for Lifetime Contributions to the Field of Labor Economics. The award was presented at the Society of Labor Economists’ annual meeting in Boston, Massachusetts on May 3, 2013. The Mincer award was established in 2004 and is…
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Q&A: Unemployment and the U.S. Economy
This Labor Day, while the country is still dealing with tough economic times, we sat down with University of Texas economist Daniel Hamermesh, to get his take on unemployment and if and when to expect an economic recovery. Who or what determines when the economy has recovered? The National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge…
