Ehrenberg, Ronald Gordon

I.M. Ives Prof of ILR and Econ

research

research and scholarship focus

  • economic analyses of higher education
  • elementary and secondary education
  • behavioral models of the educational sector 
  • Economics of Education
  • Analysis of Labor Markets
  • Evaluation of Social Programs
  • Analysis of Compensation Programs 
  • Applied Economic theory and Policy, Applied Econometrics

affiliations

faculty appointment in

member of graduate field

other Cornell affiliations

teaching

teaching focus

  • Labor Market Analysis
  • Economic Analysis of the University
  • Economic Security (UI Module)
  • Evaluation of Social Programs
  • Economics of Education

background

educational background

  • Ph.D. (Economics) Northwestern University, 1970
  • M.A. (Economics) Northwestern University
  • B.A. (Mathematics) Harpur College, SUNY at Binghamton, 1966 

awards and distinctions

  • Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellows, Cornell University 2005 -
  • Fellow, Society of Labor Economists, 2004 -
  • Member, National Academy of Education, 2003 -
  • General Mills Foundation Award for Exemplary Undergraduate Teaching (2003)
  • National Associate of the National Academy of Science, 2002 -
  • Research Fellow IZA (Institute for the Study of Labor, Berlin, Germany), March 2002 -
  • Director, Cornell Higher Education Research Institute, July 1998-
  • Vice President for Academic Programs, Planning and Budgeting, Cornell University, July 1995-June 30, 1998
  • Acting Vice President for Academic Programs and Planning, Cornell University, March 1995-June 1995
  • Irving M. Ives Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations & Economics, Cornell University, July 1985-

publications

selected publications (listing in progress)

  • "Absenteeism and the Overtime Decision," American Economic Review, June 1970.
  • "Heterogeneous Labor, the Internal Labor Market, and the Dynamics of the Employment-Hours Decision," Journal of Economic Theory, March 1971.
  • "The Impact of the Overtime Premium on Employment and Hours in U.S. Industry," Western Economic Journal, June 1971.
  • "Relative Wages, Incremental Budgeting and the Demand for State and Local Government Employees," American Economic Review, June 1973.
  • "Organizational Control and the Economic Efficiency of Hospitals: The Production of Nursing Services," Journal of Human Resources, Winter 1974.
  • "Municipal Government Structure, Unionization, and the Wages of Fire Fighters," Industrial and Labor Relations Review, October 1973.
  • "Heterogeneous Labor, Minimum Hiring Standards and Job Vacancies in Public Employment," Journal of Political Economy, November-December 1973.
  • "The Demand for Labor in the Public Sector" (with Orley Ashenfelter). In D. Hamermesh, ed., Labor in the Public and Non-Profit Sectors, Princeton University Press), 1975.
  • "Household Allocation of Time and Church Attendance" (with C. Azzi), Journal of Political Economy, February 1975.
  • "A Model of Public Sector Wage Determination" (with G. Goldstein), Journal of Urban Economics, June 1975.
  • "Executive Compensation in Municipalities" (with G. Goldstein), Southern Economic Journal, July 1976.
  • "The Impact of the Win 2 Program on Welfare Costs and Recipient Rates" (with J. Hewlett), Journal of Human Resources, Spring 1976.
  • "Impact of Unemployment Insurance on the Duration of Unemployment and Post-Unemployment Wage" (with R. Oaxaca), Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Winter Meetings of the Industrial Relations Research Association (excerpted in the March 1976, Monthly Labor Review), reprinted in J. Crawford, ed., Readings in Modern Economics.
  • "Unemployment Insurance, Duration of Unemployment, and Subsequent Wage Gains" (with R. Oaxaca), American Economic Review, December 1976.
  • "Officer Compensation and Performance in Local Building Trade Unions" (with S. Goldberg), Industrial and Labor Relations Review, January 1977.
  • "Household Allocation of Time and Religiosity: Replication and Extension," Journal of Political Economy, April 1977.
  • "The Impact of Win 2: Reply," Journal of Human Resources, Summer 1977.
  • "Has Labor Economics Been Useful?" (with D. Hamermesh and G. Johnson), Industrial and Labor Relations Review, October 1977.
  • "The Costs of Defined Benefit Plans and Firm Adjustments" (with B. Barnow), Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 1979.
    Retirement Policies, Employment and Unemployment," American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, May 1979. (Reprinted in Ernst W. Stromsdorfer, ed., Evaluation Studies Review Annual, Vol. 5, Sage Publications, 1980).
  • "Who Pays for Pensions in the State and Local Sector: Workers or Employers? (with R. Smith), Proceedings of the Thirty-Second Annual Meeting of the Industrial Relations Research Association, 1980.
  • "The Impact of Retirement Policies on Employment and Unemployment" in Paul Burgess and Jerry Kingston, eds., High Employment: Problems and Solutions (Tempe: Arizona State University Press, 1979).
  • "Correlates of Underfunding of Public Sector Retirement Systems." Economic Inquiry, July 1980.
  • "Minimum Wage Legislation and the Educational Outcomes of Youth" (with Alan Marcus), Research in Labor Economics, Vol. 3, 1980.
  • "A Framework for Evaluating State and Local Government Pension Reform" in Peter Mieszkowski and George Peterson, eds., Public Sector Labor Markets, Vol. 4 of the COUPE Papers on Public Economics (Urban Institute, Washington, DC, 1980).
  • "The Demographic Structure of Unemployment Rates and Labor Market Transition Probabilities," Research in Labor Economics, Vol. 3, 1980.
  • "Retirement System Characteristics and Compensating Wage Differentials in the Public Sector," Industrial and Labor Relations Review, July 1980.