Curricula Vita
2023
New School for Social Research
Biographical information available in: Marquis Who’s Who, Who’s Who in America from 1998 - Present.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. (1984) University of California, Berkeley, Economics
B.A. (1978) University of California, Berkeley, Economics
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Research Associate, Economics Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, July 2020-Present
Professor, Irene and Bernard L Schwartz Professor of Economic Policy Analysis, The New School, 2008-Present
Director, Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis, The New School, 2008-Present
Professor, Economics and Policy Studies, University of Notre Dame, 2005-2007
Director, Higgins Labor Research Center, University of Notre Dame, 1997 - 2007
Associate and Assistant Professor, Economics, University of Notre Dame, 1983 - 2005
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Instructor, “U.S. Income and Wealth Inequality,” The Century Foundation Sagner Summer Programs, Williams College, Williamstown, MA. (June 22 - July 2, 1999; June 23 - July 15, 2000; July 1 - July 8, 2001; July 1 - 8, 2002; June 27 - July 6, 2003)
Assistant Director, Department of Employee Benefits, AFL-CIO, September 1994 - May 1995 (during leave from the University of Notre Dame).
In Residence Fellowship, Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute, Harvard University and Radcliffe College, 1987 - 1988.
Research Assistant, Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California, Berkeley, 1979 - 1983.
Refereed Articles
• “The False Promises of Working Longer." With Beth C. Truesdale. The Journal of Retirement. 2023.
• "The Future of Heterodox Economics." With Zachary Knauss, Rick McGahey, William Milberg, and Drew Landes. Journal of Philosophical Economics. 2023.
• "Retirement Plan Wealth Inequality: Measurement and Trends." With Siavash Radpour, Anthony Webb. Journal of Pension Economics & Finance 21 (1). Cambridge University Press: 119–39. 2022
• "Monopsony Power, Race, and Gender." With Aida Farmand. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance. 2022.
• "Physically Demanding Jobs and Involuntary Retirement Worsen Retirement Insecurity for Older Workers." Status of Older Workers Report Series. With Jessica Forden, Siavash Radpour, and Eva Conway. Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at The New School for Social Research. New York, NY. 2022.
• "Practical Applications of The Illusory Benefit of Working Longer on Retirement Financial Preparedness: Rethinking Advice That Working Longer Increases Retirement Income. Practical Applications." With Michael Papadopoulos and Anthony Webb, 2022.
• "Retirement reforms are Necessary—so is strengthening Social Security." With Owen Davis, Siavash Radpour, and Eva Conway. Policy Note Series, Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at The New School for Social Research. New York, NY. 2022.
• "A universal retirement plan can reduce inequality and prevent downward mobility in retirement." With Siavash Radpour, and Eva Conway. Policy Note Series, Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at The New School for Social Research. New York, NY. 2022.
• "The Illusory Benefit of Working Longer on Retirement Financial Preparedness: Rethinking Advice That Working Longer Increases Retirement Income." With Michael Papadopoulos and Anthony Webb. The Journal of Retirement. 2022.
• "How to Think about Our Children's Children: Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World, Daniel Sherrell." Social Research: An International Quarterly 89, no. 2 : 285-295. 2022
• "Gender, Family Histories, and Late-Life Economic Well-Being." With Deborah Carr. Innov Aging. 5(Suppl 1): 240, 2021.
• "No 'Great Resignation' for Older Workers—Mass Job Loss Drove the Retirement Surge." With Barbara Schuster, Siavash Radpour and Eva Conway. Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (SCEPA), The New School. 2022.
• "The Stalled Jobs Recovery Pushed 1.1 Million Older Workers Out of The Labor Force." With Owen Davis, Bridget Fisher and Siavash Radpour, SCEPA publication series. 2021-01, Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (SCEPA), The New School. 2021.
• "Trends in Employer-Sponsored Retirement Plan Access and Participation Rates: Reconciling Different Data Sources." With Siavash Radpour and Micheal Papadopoulos. Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (SCEPA) (No. 2021-02)., The New School. 2021.
• "Working Longer Not a Panacea Considering the Number of Low-wage Work Options." With Barbara Schuster. ASA Generations. 2021.
• “How Expanding EITC Will Benefit 1.5 Million Low-Income Older Workers." With Aida Farmand, Bridget Fisher and Siavash Radpour. Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (SCEPA), The New School. 2021.
• "Heterodox Economics: What It Is, Where It Came From, and Why It Matters" With Rick McGahey, William Milberg, and Zachary Knauss. Economics and Philosophy. 2020.
• "The Impact of Automation on Older Workers: What Should We Do About It?" With Bridget Fisher and Siavash Radpour. Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (SCEPA), The New School. 2020.
• "Making Old People Work: Three False Assumptions Supporting the 'Working Longer Consensus.'"
Journal of Politics & Society . Vol. 49, Iss. 1. February 2021.
• "Older Workers Face New Risks because of the COVID-19 Recession." With Aida Farmand and Siavash
Radpour. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Workforce Currents . September, 3 2020. 2020-11.
• "Retirement Plan Wealth Inequality: Measurement And Trends. "Journal of Pension Economics and
Finance. 2020.
• "Older Workers on the COVID-19-Frontlines without Paid Sick Leave.” With Aida Farmand. Journal of
Aging & Social Policy , Vol. 32, No. 4-5, May 2020.
• "Older Worker Exploitation: Magnitude, Causes, and Solutions. " With Siavash Radpour. Generations,
Vol 43, No . 3, 2019.
• "Bargaining Power is Falling for America's Older Workers." Generations. 2019.
• "The Inequitable Effects of Raising the Retirement Age on Blacks and Low-Wage Workers." With Kyle
Moore & Anthony Webb. The Review of Black Political Economy, Vol. 46, No. 1, 2019.
• "New Evidence on the Effect of Economic Shocks on Retirement Plan Withdrawals. " With Siavash
Radpour & Anthony Webb. The Journal of Retirement. 2019.
• "Modernizing the American Private Pension System Plan for the Future of Work . " Benefits Law
Journal , Vol. 31, No. 4, Winter 2018.
• "Retirement Savings Inequality: Different Effects of Earnings Shocks, Portfolio Selections, and
Employer Contributions by Worker Earnings Level " With Joelle Saad-Lessler & Gayle L. Reznik. Social
Security Bulletin, Vol . 78, No. 3, 2018.
• "Catch-Up Contributions: An Equitable and Affordable Solution to the Retirement Savings Crisis. " With
Michael Papadopoulos, Wei Sun, & Anthony Webb. Public Policy & Aging Report. Vol. 28, No, 1, 2018,
Pages S4–S14.
• "Intersectionality and Stratification in the Labor Market " With Kyle Moore. American Society on
Aging . Vol. 42, No. 2, Summer 2018, pp. 34-40(7).
• "The Distribution of Time in Retirement: Evidence From the Health and Retirement Survey ." With
Anthony Webb. Work, Aging and Retirement , Vol. 4, No. 3, July 2018, p. 251-261.
• "Earnings Volatility and 401(k) Contributions ." With Joelle Saad-Lesler and Gayle Reznik. Journal of Pension Economics and Finance , Vol. 17, No. 4, Fall 2018.
• "How 401(k) Plans Make Recessions Worse ." With Joelle Saad-Lesser. Inequality, Uncertainty, And
Opportunity : The Varied And Growing Role Of Finance In Labor Relations.- Champaign, IL : Labor and
Employment Relations Association, ISBN 978-0-913447-10-9. - 2015, p. 9-30
• "Explaining the Decline in Retirement Account Coverage between 2003-2012 ." With Joelle
Saad-Lesser. Industrial and Labor Relations Review . Vol. 68, No. 4, 2015.
• "Are US Workers Ready for Retirement? Trends in Plan Sponsorship, Participation, and Preparedness " With Joelle Saad-Lessler & Kate Bahn. The Journal of Pension Benefits. Ferenczy Benefits Law Center, Pp. 25-39, Winter 2015
• "Private Pension ", The Oxford Handbook of US Social Policy, December, 2014
• "Are U.S. Workers Ready for Retirement? Trends in Plan Sponsorship, Participation, and
Preparedness .” With Joelle Saad-Lessler & Kate Bahn. Journal of Pension Benefits, 2014
• "Retirement Security Worse on ERISA's 40th Anniversary . " Drexel Law Review, Vol. 6:453, 2014
• "The Surprising Equality of Retirement Time: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Survey " With
Anthony Bonen. Edited by Danielle M. Jaffe. The Connecticut Insurance Law Journal Vol 20(2)
University of Connecticut School of Law, Hartford Connecticut, Pp. 405-432, Spring 2014.
• "American Minorities Work and Retirement ." With Keith E. Whitfield and Tamara A. Baker editors. The Handbook on Minority Aging. Springer Publishing Company. 2014
• "PART III Programs for the Elderly, Private Pensions." With Daniel Béland, Christopher Howard, and
Kimberly J. Morgan editors. The Oxford Handbook of Social Policy in the United States. New York:
Oxford University Press. 2014
• "Austerity Distorts the Common Economic Interests between Generations ." Social Research, Vol. 80,
No. 3, Austerity Economics but Persistent Policy. Fall 2013.
• "Pension Policies to Minimize Future Economic Crises ." Oxford Handbook of the Political Economy of
Financial Crises. 2013, Oxford University Press, New York, NY
• " The Macroeconomic Stabilisation Effects of Social Security and 401(k) Plans ", With Joelle SaadLessler
& Eloy Fisher, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Oxford University Press, vol. 36(1), pages 237-251.2012
• " The Solution to the Pension Crisis is More Pensions ", Perspectives on Work, Vol. 14, no. 1-2, Summer
2010/Winter 2011. p. 34. Published by Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA)
• "Book Review: A Failure of Capitalism: The Crisis of '08 and the Descent into Depression", by Richard
Posner (Harvard Univerity Press, 2009), Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, vol.10, no.3:
486-488, July, 2011
• " Getting it Right: Empirical Evidence and Policy Implications from Research on Public-Sector Unionism
and Collective Bargaining ", Working Paper Series, EPRN & LERA, March, 2011
• " Teresa Ghilarducci Responds", Reply to Kramer's review of 'The Golden Years ', New Labor Forum,
vol.19, no.1, Winter, 2010
• "The Future of Retirement in Aging Societies", International Review of Applied Economics, Vol 24,
pp.319-331, 2010
• “ How to Supplement Social Security Fairly and Effectively ." Journal of Aging & Social Policy. Vol 22(2).
462694. 2010
• “ Pension Reform in the United States: Guaranteed Pension Accounts are Key .” Rotman International
Journal of Pension Management. 2:2 (Fall) 2009 Pp. 58-65
• “If This Isn’t The Time for A Guaranteed Retirement Account, When Is It?”. Journal of Pension
Benefits. 16:3 (Spring) 2009 Pp. 21-28
• "The Goldless Years, How to Save the Nation’s Retirees from Bankruptcy", New Labor Forum, 18:2
(Spring) 2009. Pp. 33-41
• “ Memorandum on a New Financial Architecture and New Regulations ”, Investigatión Económica. Vol.
LXVIII, nr 267, Univeridad Nacional Autónoma de México, DF México, Jan-Mar 2009
• “Latinos’ Retirement Income Security and Voluntary Participation in 401(k) Plans”, The Business
Journal of Hispanic Research, Vol. 2(2), pp. 50-64, 2008.
• " Workplace Injuries and Diseases: Prevention and Compensation Essays in Honor of Terry Thomason ."
Industrial Relations. 39:1 (Summer) 2008. Pp. 83-84
• “ How Defined Contribution Plans and 401(k)s Affect Employer Pension Costs .” With Wei Sun. Journal
of Pension Economics and Finance. 5:2 (July) 2006. Pp. 175-196.
• " Female Dual Labour Markets and Employee Benefits ." With Mary Lee. Scottish Journal of Political
Economy. 52:1 (February) 2005. Pp. 18-37.
• “Employer Pension Contributions and 401(k) Plans .” With Wei Sun and Steve Nyce. Industrial
Relations. 43:2 (April) 2004. Pp. 473-479(7).
• “Complementarity of Pensions and Training under Multiemployer Plans .” With Michael Reich. Journal
of Labor Research. XXII:3 (Summer) 2001. Pp. 615-634.
• “Unions’ Role in Argentine and Chilean Pension Reform .” With Patricia Ledesma Liébana. World
Development. 28:4 (April) 2000. Pp. 753-762.
• " Scale Economies in Union Pension Plan Administration: 1981-1993 ." With Kevin Terry. Industrial
Relations. 38:1. (January) 1999. Pp. 11-13.
• "Labor's Paradoxical Interests and the Evolution of Corporate Governance ." With James Hawley and
Andrew Williams. Journal of Law and Society. 24:1. (March) 1997. Pp. 26-43.
• " Pensions in an International Perspective ." Review of Radical Political Economics. 27:3. (Fall) 1995.
Pp. 60-71.
• "How Pensions Can Build America's Future ." With Douglas Koelemay. Spectrum. (November) 1993.
• "Pensions and the Uses of Ignorance by Unions and Firms ." Journal of Labor Research. XI:2. (Spring)
1990. Pp. 203-216.
• "Strategic Uses of Pension Funds Since 1978 ." Review of Radical Political Economy. 20:4. (Winter)
1988. Pp. 23-39.
• "The Impact of Internal Union Politics on the 1981 UMWA Strike ." Industrial Relations. 27:3. (Fall) 1988. Pp. 371-383.
• "Reply to Professors Northrup and Campbell ." Industrial Relations. 27:3. (Fall) 1988. Pp. 371-383.
• "When Management Strikes: Patco and the British Mines ." Industrial Relations. 17:2 (Summer) 1986.
Pp. 115-128.
• "The Economics and Politics of Tax Reform: A Comment on Congressman Kemp's Article.” With T.R.
Swartz. Journal of Legislation. 17:2. (Summer) 1985. Pp. 156-162.