A selection of Daniel Hamermesh's key papers on labor demand including: how firms adjust labor in response to large shocks, the theory and applications of labor demand dynamics, adjustments costs, how labor policy affects wages and employment, minimum wage, job displacement, and physical appearance and discrimination.

Professor in Economics, Royal Holloway University of London and Sue Killam Professor Emeritus in the Foundation of Economics at the University of Texas at Austin. He is Network Director of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) and Editor-in-Chief of the World of Labor. He has taught at Princeton, Michigan State, and Texas and has held visiting professorships at universities in North America, Europe, Australia and Asia. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and the Society of Labor Economists, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), and Past President of the Society of Labor Economists and of the Midwest Economics Association. In 2013 he received the biennial Mincer Award for Lifetime Contributions to Labor Economics of the Society of Labor Economists; the annual IZA Prize in Labor of the Institute for the Study of Labor; and the biennial John R. Commons Award of the international economics honor society.

• Introduction by the Editors


• 1: Labor Market Competition among Youths, White Women and Others


• 2: Spectral Analysis of the Relation between Gross Employment Changes and Output Changes, 1958-1966


• 3: Labor Demand and the Structure of Adjustment Costs


• 4: Labor Demand and the Source of Adjustment Costs


• 5: Turnover and the Dynamics of Labor Demand


• 6: Job Turnover and Labor Turnover: A Taxonomy of Employment Dynamics


• 7: Minimum Wages and the Demand for Labor


• 8: The Demand for Hours of Labor: Direct Evidence From California


• 9: The Timing of Labor Demand


• 10: The Costs of Worker Displacement


• 11: Policy Equilibria in a Federal System: The Effects of Higher Tax Ceilings for Unemployment Insurance


• 12: Beauty and the Labor Market


• 13: Tall or Taller, Pretty or Prettier: Is Discrimination Absolute or Relative?


• 14: Beauty, Productivity and Discrimination: Lawyers' Looks and Lucre


• 15: What is Discrimination? Gender in the American Economic Association, 1935-2004


• 16: Strike Three: Discrimination, Incentives, and Evaluation


• Where Has Research on Labor Demand Been? Where Is It Going?