Jennifer Hunt

Courses

ECON 426 Labour Economics
ECON 741 Advanced Labour Economics

Labor economics, corruption

Labor economics, crime and corruption

Introduction

Jennifer Hunt came to McGill in June 2004 after previous positions as an assistant professor (1992-1997) and associate professor (1997-2001) at Yale University, and as an associate professor at the University of Montreal (2001-2004). She received her Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard in 1992 and her Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1987. She is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London, and is on the Scientific Advisory Council of the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies in Washington D.C. and the Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung in Nuremburg. She has done research in the areas of employment and unemployment policy, immigration, wage inequality, transition economics, crime and corruption. Her current research focuses on immigration and innovation in the United States, the U.S. science and engineering workforce, and the 2008-2009 recession in Germany.

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