Eileen Appelbaum (born June 13, 1940) is an American economist. She is the co-director of the

Center for Economic and Policy Research The Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) is an American think tank that specializes in economic policy. Based in Washington, D.C. CEPR was co-founded by economists Dean Baker and Mark Weisbrot in 1999. Considered a left-leaning orga ...

and an expert in

private equity Private equity (PE) is stock in a private company that does not offer stock to the general public; instead it is offered to specialized investment funds and limited partnerships that take an active role in the management and structuring of the co ...

and

labor relations Labour relations in practice is a subarea within human resource management, and the main components of it include collective bargaining, application and oversight of collective agreement obligations, and dispute resolution. Academically, employe ...

Education

Appelbaum holds a PhD in economics from the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (Penn or UPenn) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. One of nine colonial colleges, it was chartered in 1755 through the efforts of f ...

Career

Her most recent book, ''Private Equity at Work: When Wall Street Manages Main Street'', which she co-authored with Rosemary Batt, was a finalist for the Academy of Management's George R. Terry Book Award in 2016. She also co-wrote, with Ruth Milkman, ''Unfinished Business: Paid Family Leave in California and the Future of U.S. Work-Family Policy,'' published by Cornell University Press in 2013.

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CEPR homepage
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