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Elizabeth Weber Handwerker, Ph.D.

Research Economist,
Employment Research and Program Development Staff


Contact Information	202-691-7353 Email
Fields of Interest	Labor Economics; Survey Methodology
Education	University of California at Berkeley, 2007, Ph.D., Economics Swarthmore College, 1998, B.A. with honors, Economics
Professional Experience	Research Economist, Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2007-present Instructor of Economics, University of California at Berkeley, 2007 Research Assistant, Council of Economic Advisers, 2000-2001 Survey Statistician, International Program Center, U.S. Census Bureau, 1998-2000

Selected Publications

The Life Cycle of Businesses and Their Internal Organization (with Sara Moreira and David Piccone Jr.), AEA Papers and Proceedings 2021, 111: 587–592
What Happens to the Employers involved in Mass Layoffs (with Lowell Mason). Southern Economic Journal 85(1). [Summary of paper, Monthly Labor Review, August 2018.]
The Role of Establishments and the Concentration of Occupations in Wage Inequality (with James Spletzer). Research in Labor Economics 43.
Delaying Retirement to Pay for College Industrial Relations and Labor Review 64(5).
What can the Social Security Notch tell us about the impact of additional income in retirement? Journal of Economic and Social Measurement 36(1-2).

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Last Modified Date: May 12, 2021