Keith A. Bender, Associate Professor

Office: Bolton Hall, Room 836
Phone: (414) 229-4761
e-mail: kabender@uwm.edu
Web Page: www.uwm.edu/~kabender/

Degrees:
Ph.D. Economics, Duke University, 1994
M.A. Economics, Duke University, 1992
B.A. Economics, Furman University, 1990

Research Interests:
Primary Fields: Labor Economics, Economics of Aging, Public Sector Labor Markets
Secondary Fields: Microeconomic Theory, Applied Microeconomics, International Comparisons

Current Projects:
"Real and Perceived Losses from Unemployment: A Cross Country Study." (With Rebecca Neumann and John Skåtun)

"Socio-economic Factors and the Health Status of the Elderly: A Comparative Analysis" (with Ioannis Theodossiou)

"Your Job or Your Life: The Uncertain Relationship between Mortality and Unemployment" (with Ioannis Theodossiou)

"An Analysis of Well-Being in Retirement: Causes and Effects"

Selected Publications:
"Constrained by Hours and Restricted in Wages: The Quality of Matches in the Labor
Market," forthcoming, Economic Inquiry (with John D. F. Skåtun)

"Educational Mismatch among Ph.D.s: Determinants and Consequences," NBER Working Paper 12693 (with John Heywood).

"Unemployment and Other Measures of Labor Market Inefficiency: The Evolution of US and UK Labor Markets 1931-1996," Economic Inquiry, 44(4), October 2006: 629-43 (with Rebecca Neumann and John Skåtun).

"Job Satisfaction and Gender Segregation," Oxford Economic Papers, 57(3), July 2005: 479-96 (with Susan M. Donohue and John S. Heywood).

"What Makes Retirees Happy?" Center for Retirement Research Issue in Brief #28, Boston College, February 2005 (with Natalia A. Jivan).

"Examining Equality between Public and Private Sector Wage Distributions." Economic Inquiry, 41(1), January 2003: 62-79.