Daniel S. Hamermesh

Research Fellow

University of Texas at Austin

Daniel S. Hamermesh is Sue Killam Professor Emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin and Professor Emeritus, Royal Holloway University of London, and . His A.B. is from the University of Chicago (1965), his Ph.D. from Yale (1969). He taught from 1969-73 at Princeton, from 1973-93 at Michigan State, from 1993-2014 at the University of Texas at Austin, from 2009-12 at Maastricht University, from 2012-2017 at Royal Holloway University of London, from 20107-2022 at Barnard College, and has held visiting professorships in the United States, Europe, Australia and Asia. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and was President of the Society of Labor Economists in 2001. In 2013 that Society gave him the Mincer Award for Lifetime Contributions while he was awarded the IZA Prize in Labor economics in the same year. That year he also received the John R. Commons Award from Omicron Delta Epsilon.

Hamermesh authored Labor Demand, The Economics of Work and Pay, Economics Is Everywhere, Beauty Pays, Spending Time, and a wide array of articles in labor economics in the leading general and specialized economics journals.

His research concentrates on time use, labor demand, discrimination, social insurance programs (particularly unemployment insurance), and unusual applications of labor economics (to suicide, sleep and beauty).

He joined IZA as a research fellow in July 1998. From December 2001 until July 2008, he was IZA Program Director for the institute's research program "The Future of Labor." He served as IZA Director of Research from August 2008 until January 2009. Currently he acts as Editor-in-Chief of IZA World of Labor.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2030
published as 'A Structural Model of the Fixed Time Costs of Market Work' (with Stephen G. Donald) in: Economics Letters, 2009, 104 (3), 125-128
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1965
published in: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2007, 89 (4), 852-863; excerpts also publishd in Economics Letters, 2008, 98 (1), 31-34
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1815
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2007, 89 (2), 374-383
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1680
published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy, 2008, 8 (1), Article 3
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1580
published in: Economic Record, 2006, 82 (257), 138-149
IZA Discussion Paper No. 308
published as 'Two-Sided Learning with Applications to Labor Turnover and Worker Displacement' in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2008, 228 (5-6), 423 - 445
IZA Discussion Paper No. 173
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2002, 15 (4), 601-623
IZA Discussion Paper No. 42
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2001, 36 (1), 1-30
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