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John T. Addison
Title: | Research Professor |
Department: | Economics Darla Moore School of Business |
Email: | ecceaddi@moore.sc.edu |
Phone: | 803-777-4608 |
Office: | Darla Moore School of Business, Room 446 |
Resources: | Curriculum Vitae [pdf] |
Background
John T. Addison is Research Professor in Economics and Hugh C. Lane Professor of Economic
Theory Emeritus at the University of South Carolina. He is a research fellow at the
Center for Labor and Employment Law at New York University, the Institute for Employment
Research (IAB) of the German Federal Labor Agency in Nuremberg, and the Institute
of Labor Economics (IZA) in Bonn. He is also a senior research fellow at Rimini Center
for Economic Analysis and a member of the Kuratorium or Board of Trustees of the Institute
for Labor Law and Industrial Relations in the European Union (IAAEU) at the University
of Trier.
Addison is a labor economist and was educated at the London School of Economics (B.Sc.,
M.Sc., and Ph.D).
He published widely in major economics and labor journals, such as the Economic Journal,
the Journal of Human Resources, the Review of Economics & Statistics, the Journal
of Labor Economics, the American Economic Review, Industrial and Labor Relations Review,
and Labour Economics. He has also authored or edited some 15 books, including The
Economic Analysis of Unions: New Approaches and Evidence (with Barry T. Hirsch); Job
Displacement: Consequences and Implications for Policy; The International Handbook
of Trade Unions (with Claus Schnabel); and, most recently, The Economics of Codetermination:
Lessons from the German Experience.
Research
His current research interests include worker representation; the quality of employer-employee job matches; minimum wages; the erosion of collective bargaining in Germany and its consequences; high dimensional fixed effect wage regression models; and aspects of female pay and career progression.
Education
- Ph.D., London School of Economics and Political Science, 1971
- M.S., London School of Economics and Political Science, 1968
- B.S., London School of Economics and Political Science, 1967