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October 30, 2001

Noted Labor Economist Daniel Hamermesh To Conduct Seminar At UNM Economics Department

Daniel Hamermesh, a renowned labor economist and professor at the University of Texas-Austin, will host a seminar at the University of New Mexico titled, “The Demand for Variety: The Household Production Perspective,” Friday, Nov. 1, 2001, from 2 - 3:30 p.m. in room 1052 in the UNM Economics Department.

Hamermesh’s seminar will address and provide evidence that education actually makes people more productive in household activities, including leisure. He suggests that product diversity pervades every modern marketplace and economists have devoted substantial attention to firms’ decisions about the supply of variety. Hamermesh’s study looks at the consumer’s side by discussing the demand for variety.

Hamermesh is the Everett Hale Centennial Professor of Economics at UT-Austin. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and of the Institute for Study of Labor. He has held visiting professorships at universities in the United States, Europe, Australia and Asia.

His research concentrates on labor issues, time use and unusual applications of labor economics. Some of his authored works include Labor Demand, Princeton Press, 1993; The Economics of Work and Pay, and a wide array of articles in labor economics in the leading general and specialized economics journals.

He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago in 1965 and his Ph.D. from Yale in 1969. He taught from 1969-73 at Princeton and from 1973-93 at Michigan State.

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