MPI's Labor Markets Advisory Group
The Labor Markets Initiative, active in 2009-13, was led by then MPI President Demetrios Papademetriou and Senior Vice President Michael Fix. The Initiative’s work was also guided by a group of leading experts in labor economics, welfare policy, and immigration. The members of the Labor Markets Advisory Group were:
Frank D. Bean
Chancellor’s Professor and Director, Center for Research on Immigration, Population and Public Policy, University of California – Irvine
Rebecca M. Blank
Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs, U.S. Department of Commerce
Jeanne Butterfield
Senior Counsel, The Raben Group and former Executive Director, American Immigration Lawyers Association
Maria Echaveste
Co-Founder and Partner, Nueva Vista Group and former Deputy Chief of Staff for President Clinton
Jennifer Gordon
Associate Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law and MacArthur Prize Fellow (1999-2004)
Gordon H. Hanson
Professor of Economics and Director, Center on Pacific Economies, University of California, San Diego, and Co-Editor, Journal of Development Economics
Harry J. Holzer
Professor, Georgetown Public Policy Institute, Senior Fellow, Urban Institute, and former Chief Economist, U.S. Department of Labor
Gerald D. Jaynes
Professor of Economics, Professor of African-American Studies and Director of Studies in African American Studies, Yale University
Joseph J. Minarik
Senior Vice President and Director of Research, Committee for Economic Development, and former Policy Director and Chief Economist for the House Budget Committee
Pia M. Orrenius
Senior Economist and Policy Advisor, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, and Research Fellow, IZA Institute of Labor
Esther Olavarria
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy, U.S .Department of Homeland Security
Giovanni Peri
Associate Professor of Economics, University of California, Davis and Research Associate, NBER
Mark C. Regets
Economist and Senior Analyst, National Science Foundation Division of Science Resources Studies, and Research Fellow, IZA Institute of Labor
William M. Rodgers III
Chief Economist, Heldrich Center for Workforce Development
Frank Sharry
Executive Director, America's Voice, and former Executive Director, National Immigration Forum
Chad Stone
Chief Economist, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Note: Members of the Labor Markets Advisory Group act in an advisory capacity only. The content of publications issued by MPI's Labor Markets Initiative remains the sole responsibility of the authors.