George Edwards Johnson

Background

Johnson, George Edwards was born in 1940 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.

Education

Master of Arts, Doctor of Philosophy University California Berkeley, 1964, 1968.

Career

Research Fellow, University Nairobi, Kenya, 1970-1971. Director, Office Evaluation, United States Department Labor, 1971-1974. Senior Economics, United States President"s Council Economics Advisers, 1977-1978.

Visiting Fellow, London School of Economies and Political Science, London, United Kingdom, 1979.

Research Association, National Bureau of Economie Research, New York, New York, United States of America, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1983-. Professor of Economics, University Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, since 1974.

Works

• book

  • The fiscal substitution effect of alternative approaches to public service employment policy (Technical analysis paper)

Views

In the first part of my career I was interested in straightforward questions about how labour markets work and also in how to integrate unionism into an economic framework. In the 1970s I became interested in how government policies influence labour market outcomes. During the 1980s I have been working on the question of why relative wage rates do not adjust as rapidly as they ‘should’ and what this implies about macroeconomic adjustment.

Interests

• 800 Manpower Labour; 900 Welfare Programmes.