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 | George Johnson
Professor of Economics
PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1966
Contact Information
University of Michigan
Department of Economics
611 Tappan Street
258 Lorch Hall
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1220
Fax: 734-764-2769
Email: gjohnson@umich.edu | | Fields of Study
Labor Economics
About George Johnson
Professor Johnson has taught courses in macroeconomics, human resource policy, benefit-cost analysis and policy modeling, as well as graduate courses in labor economics and human capital. He served as the Director of the Office of Evaluation in the U.S. Department of Labor in 1973-74, and as a Senior Staff Economist on the Council of Economic Advisers in 1977-78. He has published numerous papers on a variety of topics, including labor market displacement, structural unemployment and job creation programs. His current research is focused on trade unions and macroeconomic adjustment, trends in the economic returns to education and long term unemployment and labor markets.
Publications
Johnson, George E. and Frank Stafford, "The Earnings and Promotion of Women Faculty," American Economic Review, 67(2), March 1977, 214-217.
Blakemore, Arthur and George E. Johnson, "The Potential Impact of Employment Policy on the Unemployment Rate Consistent with Nonaccelerating Inflation," American Economic Review, 69(2), May 1979, 119-123.
Hamermesh, Daniel S., George E. Johnson and Burton A. Weisbrod, "Scholarship, Citations and Salaries: Economic Rewards in Economics," Southern Economic Journal, 49(2), October 1982, 472-481.
Johnson, George E., "Subsidies for Higher Education," Journal of labor Economics, 2(3), July 1984, 303-318.
Johnson, George E. and Gary Solon, "Estimates of Direct Effects of Comparable Worth Policy," American Economic Review, 76(5), December 1986, 1117-1125.
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