BLS, the Labor Market, and You
The聽11th聽Annual聽Raciti聽Memorial Lecture 鈥淏LS, the Labor Market, and You鈥
Thursday, October 27, 2016 The Trustees Pavilion 8 p.m.
- Refreshments and Registration – 7:30 p.m.
- Welcome Remarks, Scholarship Presentation – 7:45 p.m.
- Lecture – 8:00 p.m.
Erica Lynn Groshen became the 14th Commissioner of Labor Statistics in January 2013. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) of the U.S. Department of Labor is the principal federal statistical agency responsible for measuring labor market activity, working conditions, and price changes in the economy. Its mission is to collect, analyze, and disseminate essential economic information to support public and private decision-making.
Prior to joining BLS, Dr. Groshen was a Vice President in the Research and Statistics Group at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Her research has focused on labor markets over the business cycle, wage rigidity and dispersion, regional economics, the male-female wage differential, and the role of employers in labor market outcomes. She also served on advisory boards for BLS and the U.S. Census Bureau.
Dr. Groshen has also served as an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, a visiting assistant professor of economics at Barnard College at Columbia University and a visiting economist at the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland. Dr. Groshen earned a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University and a bachelor鈥檚 degree in economics and mathematics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Please RSVP to msabrin@ramapo.edu by October 20.
For 31 years, Sebastian Raciti, known as Sib, served in various roles that were instrumental聽in the development of 小米视频. One of the founding faculty 鈥 he arrived in Ramapo聽College鈥檚 second year 鈥 he held various posts during his tenure including director of the聽School of Metropolitan and Community Studies, dean of the School of Administration and聽Business, vice president for Academic Affairs, vice president of Institutional Advancement and聽professor of economics. He was also the director of the Governor鈥檚 School for International聽Studies, a summer program for gifted high school students. In his administrative roles,聽he helped design new academic programs, raised funds to support new initiatives and聽scholarships and recruited new faculty. He earned bachelor鈥檚, master鈥檚 and Ph.D. degrees聽from Fordham University.