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John Maron Abowd

Professor

Graduate Fields

Research Focus

  • the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics Program
  • international comparisons of labor market outcomes
  • executive compensation, with a focus on international comparisons
  • bargaining and other wage-setting institution
  • the econometric tools of labor market analysis
  • compensation and employee benefits
  • econometrics
  • executive compensation
  • human capital measurement
  • information systems
  • international and comparative workplace studies
  • labor economics
  • labor market statistics
  • statistical theory, methods, analysis
  • wage differentials and inequality
  • Wage systems, gainsharing, and incentives
  • Other Expertise: Longitudinal Employer and Household Labor Market Data, International Comparisons of Compensation and Employment Systems, Econometrics of Labor Market Analysis

Educational Background

  • Ph.D. (Economics) University of Chicago, 1977
  • A.M. (Economics) University of Chicago, 1975.
  • A.B. (Economics) University of Notre Dame, 1973

Research Grants

  • NEW YORK CENSUS RESEARCH DATA CENTER (NYCRDC) CONSORTIUM MEMBERS AGREEMENT
  • ITR: INFO TECH CHALLENGES FOR SECURE ACCESS TO CONFIDENTIAL SOCIAL SCIENCE DATA
  • DEVELOPING THE TOOLS TO UNDERSTAND HUMAN PERFORMANCE: AN EMPIRICAL INFRASTRUCTURE TO FOSTER RESEARCH COLLABORATION
  • ESTABLISHING THE NYCRDC (CORNELL)
  • IPA AGREEMENT: DEVELOPMENT OF LONGITUDINAL EMPLOYER-HOUSEHOLD PROGRAM DATA
  • THE DEMAND FOR OLDER WORKERS: USING LINKED EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE DATA FOR AGING RESEARCH

Selected Publications

PubMed Listings
  1. "Wage Structure and Labor Mobility in the United States," in E.P. Lazear and K.L. Shaw, eds. Wage Structure, Raises, and Mobility: International Comparisons of the Structure of Wages Within and Across Firms (Chicago: University of Chicago Press for the National Bureau of Economic Research, forthcoming). with John Haltiwanger and Julia Lane
  2. "Privacy: Theory Meets Practice On the Map," International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2008. (with Ashwin Machanavajjhala, Daniel Kifer, Johannes Gehrke, and Lars Vilhuber)
  3. “The LEHD Infrastructure Files and the Creation of the Quarterly Workforce Indicators ” in T. Dunne, J.B. Jensen and M.J. Roberts, eds., Producer Dynamics: New Evidence from Micro Data (Chicago: University of Chicago Press for the National Bureau of Economic Research, forthcoming). (with Bryce Stephens and Lars Vilhuber) [on the Virtual RDC]
  4. “The Link between Human Capital, Mass Layoffs, and Firm Deaths” in T. Dunne, J.B. Jensen and M.J. Roberts, eds., Producer Dynamics: New Evidence from Micro Data (Chicago: University of Chicago Press for the National Bureau of Economic Research, forthcoming). (with Kevin McKinney and Lars Vilhuber)
  5. “Human Capital and Worker Productivity: Direct Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data,” Annales d’Economie et de Statistique, forthcoming. (with Francis Kramarz)
  6. “Using Mahalanobis Distance-Based Record Linkage for Disclosure Risk Assessment,” in J. Domingo-Ferrer and Luisa Franconi (eds.) Privacy in Statistical Databases (Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2006), pp. 233-242. (with J. Domingo-Ferrer and V. Torra)
  7. “Wages, Mobility and Firm Performance: Advantages and Insights from Using Matched Worker-Firm Data,” Economic Journal, Vol. 116, (June 2006): F245–F285. (with Francis Kramarz and Sébastien Roux)
  8. “Heterogeneity in Firms’ Wages and Mobility Policies,” in H. Bunzel, B.J. Christensen, G.R. Neumann and J-M. Robin, eds., Structural Models of Wage and Employment Dynamics, (Amsterdam: Elsevier Science, 2006), pp. 237-268. (with Francis Kramarz and Sébastien Roux)
  9. “The Sensitivity of Economic Statistics to Coding Errors in Personal Identifiers,” Journal of Business and Economics Statistics, Vol. 23, No. 2 (April 2005): 133-152, JBES Joint Statistical Meetings invited paper with discussion and “Rejoinder” (April 2005): 162-165 (with Lars Vilhuber).
  10. “The Relation among Human Capital, Productivity and Market Value: Building Up from Micro Evidence,” in Measuring Capital in the New Economy, in Measuring Capital in the New Economy, C. Corrado, J. Haltiwanger, and D. Sichel (eds.), (Chicago: University of Chicago Press for the NBER, 2005), Chapter 5, pp. 153-198. (with John Haltiwanger, Ron Jarmin, Julia Lane, Paul Lengermann, Kristin McCue, Kevin McKinney, and Kristin Sandusky)