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Harry Holzer (born February 25, 1957) is an American economist, educator and public policy analyst. He grew up in a rural area near Atlantic City, New Jersey. His parents, Simon and Suzanne (nee Wester), were Holocaust survivors from Poland. His father owned and operated a small chicken farm while his mother was a seamstress and operated a fabric shop. His only sister, Marilyn, is an occupational therapist in Jerusalem, Israel. He currently resides in Chevy Chase MD with his wife, Deborah, a clinical social worker and therapist. They have 3 daughters (Simone, Hannah and Leah, aged 21, 15 and 15). In the Clinton Administration, Holzer served as the Chief Economist for the U.S. Department of Labor. Holzer is currently a professor of public policy at the McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University, and an Institute Fellow at the American Institutes for Research (AIR), where he is codirector of the research program on postsecondary education and the labor market for the National Center for the Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER). Holzer has also been a founder and co-director of the Georgetown Center on Poverty, Inequality and Public Policy. He is currently an Affiliated Scholar at the Urban Institute in Washington DC, a Research Affiliate of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a Nonresident Senior Fellow with the Brookings Economic Studies Program. He has also served as associate dean (2004-06) and acting dean of the Georgetown Public Policy Institute. Holzer is a member of the editorial board at the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, and a Research Fellow at IZA. He is a member of the board of directors for both the National Skills Coalition and the Economic Mobility Corporation. He has also been a professor of economics at Michigan State University (1983–2000), a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, and a Faculty Research Fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research.〔Positions held per http://explore.georgetown.edu/people/hjh4/?PageTemplateID=179〕 Holzer holds an A.B. from Harvard University in 1978 (graduating Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa) and received his Ph.D. in 1983 from Harvard University in economics. ==Research and Publications== Harry Holzer’s research focuses primarily on the labor market problems of low-wage workers and other disadvantaged groups, particularly minority workers. He has long been interested in the question of how employer characteristics and hiring practices, as well as the quality of jobs they generate, have affected job opportunities for less-skilled workers—especially when they create “mismatches” between worker skills and those sought by employers, as well as between their geographic locations (or “spatial mismatch”). He has studied employer data very extensively, and implemented surveys of about 7000 firms during the 1990s on their hiring practices, skill needs, and workforce characteristics. In recent years, he has analyzed trends in job quality and their effects on upward mobility for low-wage workers as well as worker inequality using the LEHD data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Holzer's current work focuses on the challenges low-income youth and adults face in American higher education and afterwards in the job market. He has written extensively about the employment problems of disadvantaged men (especially those with criminal records), the advancement prospects for the working poor, and workforce development policy broadly. He has also written about welfare reform, discrimination, Affirmative Action, job training programs, and the Earned Income Tax Credit. Holzer’s research on employment issues and policy has been funded by grants from the Joyce Foundation, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, the Institute for Research on Poverty, the Upjohn Institute, the U.S. Department of Labor, the National Science Foundation, Ford Foundation, Mott Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the Smith Richardson Foundation, the Gates Foundation, and the Public Policy Institute of California. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Harry J. Holzer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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