Solomon W. Polachek

State University of New York at Binghamton, USA, Liverpool Hope University, UK, and IZA, Germany

IZA World of Labor role

Author, Topic spokesperson

Current position

Distinguished Professor, State University of New York at Binghamton, USA, and Professorial Fellow, Liverpool Hope University, UK (2017-2019)

Research interest

Labor economics (including human capital theories of income distribution and public policy implications), international relations, applied econometrics, health economics

Qualifications

PhD, Columbia University, USA 1973

Selected publications

  • The Economics of Earnings. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1993 (with W. Stanley Siebert).

  • Earnings Over the Lifecycle: The Mincer Earnings Function and its Applications. Boston, MA: NOW Publishing Company, 2008.