PREVIOUS POSITIONS

• Chairman, Department of Economics, Oakland University, 1993 to 1996.
• Associate Professor of Economics, Oakland University, 1985 to 1996.
• Fulbright Exchange Scholar, University College, Cork, Republic of Ireland, 1987-1988.
• Visiting Professor, Michigan State University, Summer 1985.
• Assistant Professor of Economics, The University of Tennessee, 1981-1985.
• Doctoral Research Fellow, National Council on Employment Policy, U.S. Department of Labor, 1980-1981.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• "Determinants of Geographic Unemployment Rates: A Selectively Pooled- Simultaneous Model," (with R.A. Hofler), The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 66, No. 2 (May 1984), 216-223.
• "Geographic Differences in U.S. Unemployment Rates: A Variance-Decomposition Approach," Economic Inquiry, Vol. 23, No. 1 (January 1985), 135-158.
• "Unemployment Dispersion and the Allocative Efficiency of the Labor Market," Journal of Macroeconomics, Vol. 7, No. 4 (Fall 1985), 509-522.
• "Using a Composed Error Model to Estimate the Frictional and Excess Supply Components of Unemployment," (with R.A. Hofler), Journal of Regional Science, Vol. 29, No. 2 (1989), 213-228.
• "Determinants of Contract Duration in Collective Bargaining Agreements," Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 45, No. 2 (January 1992), 352-365.
• "Underpaid and Overworked: Measuring the Effect of Imperfect Information on Wages," (with R.A. Hofler), Economic Inquiry, Vol. 30, No. 3 (July 1992), 511-529.
• "A Time Series Analysis of Farmland Price Behaviour in Ireland, 1901-1986," (with D.B. Nunan), The Economic and Social Review, Vol. 24, No. 2 (January 1993), 125-153.
• "Estimating Reservation Wages Using A Stochastic Frontier Approach," (with R.A. Hofler), Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 60, No. 4 (April 1994), 961-976.
• "Convergence in State Nominal and Real Per Capita Income: Empirical Evidence," (with O. Izraeli), Public Finance Review, Vol. 25, No. 6 (November, 1997), 555-576.
• "Interstate Differences in Per Capita State and Local Revenues and the Neighboring State Effect Revenues," (with O. Izraeli), The Review of Regional Studies, Vol. 27, No. 2 (Fall 1997), 101-121.
• "What Effect Does Uncertainty Have on the Length of Union Contracts?" Labour Economics, Vol. 7, No. 2 (March 2000), 181-201.
• "A General Equilibrium Model of the Payroll Tax Incidence of State Unemployment Insurance Systems," Public Finance Review, Vol. 31, No. 1 (January 2003), 44-65.
• "The Effect of Industrial Diversity on State Unemployment Rate and Per Capita Income," (with O. Izraeli), The Annals of Regional Science, Vol. 37, No. 1 (2003), 1-14.
• "Explaining Change in the Natural Rate of Unemployment: A Regional Approach," (with J.E. Payne), The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Vol. 43, No. 2 (Summer 2003), 345-368.
• "Payroll Tax Incidence When the Tax Varies by Jurisdiction: The Case of the U.S. Unemployment Insurance Tax," Journal of Economics and Finance, Vol. 30, No. 2 (Summer 2006), 198-204.
• "The Impact of Unemployment Insurance Taxes on Wages, " Labour Economics, Vol. 14, No. 3 (June, 2007), 457-484.
• "The Impact of Proposal A on School Financing, Equity, and Quality of Public Schools in the State of Michigan," (with O. Izraeli), The Journal of Education Finance, Vol. 33, No. 2 (Fall 2007), 111-129.

· "An Analysis of the Medical Expense Deduction Under the U.S. Income Tax System, " (with J. Serocki), The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Vol. 49, No. 2 (May 2009), 343-356.

• "Analysis of Technology Transfer in CDM Projects: An Update," (with S. Seres and E. Haites), Energy Policy, forthcoming.

CONSULTING AND ADVISORY WORK

• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
• John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
• Bentley Motors, Inc.
• Department of Planning and Economic Development, Oakland County, Michigan
• General Motors Corporation
• Paint Creek Center for the Arts, Rochester, Michigan
• City of Oak Park, Michigan
• Phoenix Group, Inc.
• Tennessee Department of Employment Security