Kevin Lang (born February 16, 1955) is a professor of economics at
Boston University
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. He is also an elected Fellow of the Society of Labor Economists and a research associate of the
National Bureau of Economic Research
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(NBER).
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/ref> He is the author of ''Poverty and Discrimination'' and over 100 papers and articles on topics in Labor Economics
Labour economics seeks to understand the functioning and dynamics of the markets for wage labour. Labour is a commodity that is supplied by labourers, usually in exchange for a wage paid by demanding firms. Because these labourers exist as pa ...
.Oxford University
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, his MSc in economics from the University of Montreal
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, and his PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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in 1982. He went on to become an assistant professor at the University of California, Irvine
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, and he spent a year serving as an Olin Foundation Fellow at the NBER. In 1987, he joined the faculty at Boston University, where he served as chair of the economics department from 2005 to 2009.Brookline, Massachusetts
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, where he is also active in local politics. He served as an elected member of the Brookline School Committee from 1999 to 2009.Brookline schools' retiring 'numbers guy' Kevin Lang upbeat about the future
- ''The Boston Globe
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1955 births
Economists from California
Boston University faculty
American labor economists
Living people
MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences alumni
Université de Montréal alumni
University of California, Irvine faculty
People from Brookline, Massachusetts
Education economists
Economists from Massachusetts
21st-century American economists
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