Lawrence Kahn : Biography
Lawrence M. Kahn is Professor of Labor Economics and Collective Bargaining.
He is an elected Fellow of the Society of Labor Economists. He is a Research
Fellow of the Center for Economic Studies/Ifo Institute for Economic Research
in Munich, Germany and of IZA in Bonn, Germany. He was Chair of the Labor Economics
Department at Cornell from 1998-99 and 2000-2005, is Associate Editor of the Industrial & Labor Relations Review, is a Specialized Co-Editor (for Sports Economics) of Economic Inquiry, is on the editorial board of the Journal of Sports Economics, and served on the Board of Editors of Industrial Relations. Before joining the Cornell faculty in 1994, he was a Professor of Economics
and Labor and Industrial Relations at the University of Illinois. He has served
as Visiting Fellow in the Economics Department of Princeton University, Visiting
Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York, Visiting Scholar at the Academia
Sinica in Taipei, Visiting Scholar at the Office of Labour Market Policy Evaluation
in Uppsala, Sweden, and Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University.
He has also served as a member of the National Academy Sciences Committee on Women's
Employment and Related Social Issues.
Professor Kahn's research interests include international differences in labor
market institutions and labor market outcomes such as wage inequality, unemployment,
and the gender pay gap. In addition, he has had a long term interest in sports
labor markets and is currently also conducting research on immigration and the
labor market.
He has published articles in the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, International Economic Review, the Economic Journal, Economica, and the Review of Economics and Statistics. His book At Home and Abroad: U.S. Labor Market Performance in International Perspective (with Francine D. Blau), published by the Russell Sage Foundation, won the Richard
A. Lester Prize, awarded by the Princeton University Industrial Relations Section
for the Outstanding Book in Labor Economics and Industrial Relations published
in 2002. His biography is listed in Who's Who in Economics.
