Thomas Hyclak (born August 4, 1947) is an American

economist An economist is a professional and practitioner in the social sciences, social science discipline of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy. Within this ...

and

Economics Economics () is a behavioral science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and interac ...

Professor. He has acted as the chair of the economics department of

Lehigh University Lehigh University (LU), in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States, is a private university, private research university. The university was established in 1865 by businessman Asa Packer. Lehigh University's undergraduate programs have been mixed ...

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Bethlehem is a city in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, Northampton and Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, Lehigh counties in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, Bethle ...

(where he has taught since 1979) and is now the Interim Dean of their business school. Most of his research has to do with

labor studies 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 ...

urban Urban means "related to a city". In that sense, the term may refer to: * Urban area, geographical area distinct from rural areas * Urban culture, the culture of towns and cities Urban may also refer to: General * Urban (name), a list of people ...

regional economics Regional economics is a sub-discipline of economics and is often regarded as one of the fields of the social sciences. It addresses the economic aspect of the regional problems that are spatially analyzable so that theoretical or policy implicatio ...

, and wage studies. He is currently studying labor aspects of the transition to a market economy in

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...

. He has published numerous academic papers on regional

unemployment Unemployment, according to the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), is the proportion of people above a specified age (usually 15) not being in paid employment or self-employment but currently available for work du ...

, wage and income

inequality Inequality may refer to: * Inequality (mathematics), a relation between two quantities when they are different. * Economic inequality, difference in economic well-being between population groups ** Income inequality, an unequal distribution of i ...

, gender and racial wage differentials and human resource management practices. Notably, he is the author of “ Rising Wage Inequality: The 1980s Experience in Urban Labor Markets” as well as the textbook “ Fundamentals Of Labor Economics,” also written by Geraint Johnes and Robert J. Thornton. Tom Hyclak earned his B.A. and M.A. from

Cleveland State University Cleveland State University (CSU) is a public research university in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. It was established in 1964 and opened for classes in 1965 after acquiring the entirety of Fenn College, a private school that had been in oper ...

and his Ph.D. from the

University of Notre Dame The University of Notre Dame du Lac (known simply as Notre Dame; ; ND) is a Private university, private Catholic research university in Notre Dame, Indiana, United States. Founded in 1842 by members of the Congregation of Holy Cross, a Cathol ...

. He also serves as a member of the Allentown Urban Observatory and the Board of Directors of the Community Action Development Corporation of Bethlehem, which fosters

entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value in ways that generally entail beyond the minimal amount of risk (assumed by a traditional business), and potentially involving values besides simply economic ones. An entrepreneu ...

and business development in South Bethlehem.

Selected publications

*Rising Wage Inequality: The 1980s Experience in Urban Labor Markets,

W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research The W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research is an American research organization based in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The Institute conducts research on issues related to employment and administers government employment programs. History The W ...

, 2000. *Fundamentals Of Labor Economics, Houghton Mifflin College Division, 2005 (with Geraint Johnes and Robert J. Thornton) *Wage Flexibility and Unemployment Dynamics in Regional Labor Markets.

, 1992 (with G. Johnes). *"Wage Inflation and the Post-1991 Duration Puzzle," Economics Letters, Vol. 73, No. 1 October 2001, 97-104 (with Jonathan Ohn). *North American Health Policy in the 1990s, John Wiley, 1993, (edited with A. King, S. McMahon and R. Thornton). *Economic Aspects of Regional Trading Arrangements. Wheatsheaf Books, 1989. (edited with D. Greenaway and R.J. Thornton). *"Why Strikes Occur: Evidence From the Capital Markets," (with Jonathan K. Kramer)

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