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KATHARINE G. ABRAHAM
Biography
Katharine G. Abraham has served as Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) since October 8, 1993. The BLS is one of the principal fact-finding agencies of the federal government, responsible for producing a wide range of sensitive economic statistics, including information on employment and unemployment, consumer prices, producer prices, and productivity.
Abraham, born in 1954, received a B.S. from Iowa State University in 1976 and Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1982. She was on the faculty of the Sloan School of Management at MIT between 1980 and 1987, and was a research associate at the Brookings Institution from 1985 to 1988. Immediately prior to her appointments as Commissioner, she has been Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland. Abraham has written extensively on labor market issues. Her work has included articles about job vacancy data, studies of firms' internal labor markets, and comparative analyses of European and Japanese labor markets.
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