Katherine Terrell Svejnar

摘要

An influential scholar in the field of comparative and development economics, Professor Katherine Terrell has contributed in many areas of economic development by examining the effect of public policies and structural change on labor market outcomes, income inequality, and firm efficiency.rnKatherine Terrell spent much of her childhood living in Latin America and maintained a life-long interest in the work, pay and living conditions of low-income Latin Americans. Her Ph.D. dissertation at Cornell University examined labor mobility and earnings in Guatemala (1989). While she was an Assistant and Associate Professor at the University of Pittsburgh (1987-1996) and Associate and Full Professor at the University of Michigan (1996-2009), she broadened her research interests and examined the behavior of workers and families, as well as performance of firms. Katherine's early research examined the status of women and public-private pay differences (1992a, 1993a). She gradually became one of the world's leading academic experts on the impact of legal minimum wages on employment, earnings and poverty in Latin America; publishing and presenting research on the impact of minimum wages in Brazil, Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador (1995, 2005a, forthcoming-b).