Georgetown Public Policy Institute
Since October 2004, Dr. Michael W. Horrigan has served as the Assistant Commissioner in the Division of Producer Prices and Price Indexes in the Office of Prices and Living Conditions, the division that is responsible for the Producer Price Index Program. The Producer Price Index (PPI) program releases more than 8,000 price indexes that measure the average change over time in the prices received by domestic producers of goods and services.
Mike began working at the BLS in 1986 as a research economist and has served as program manager for the BLS Establishment Surveys of Employer-Provided Training (1991-1996) and as Director of the BLS National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS) Program (1996-2001). The NLS program gathers detailed information about the labor market experiences and other aspects of the lives of six groups of men and women. The surveys include data about a wide range of events such as schooling and career transitions, marriage and fertility, training investments, child-care usage, and drug and alcohol use. The depth and breadth of each survey allow for analysis of an expansive variety of topics such as the transition from school to work, job mobility, youth unemployment, educational attainment and the returns to education, welfare recipiency, the impact of training, and retirement decisions.
Between 2001 and 2004, Mike was the Assistant Commissioner in the Office of Occupational Statistics and Employment Projections at the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). This office conducts the biannual Occupational Employment Survey, which produces detailed occupational employment and wage information by industry for the nation, by State and Metropolitan Statistical area. His responsibilities also included the BLS long-term projections of industry and occupational employment, which are updated and released every two years.
Other significant work experience includes serving as a Senior Labor Economist at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers from 1990-1991. He holds a doctorate in Economics from Purdue University and is the author of numerous publications, including articles on unemployment duration, earnings and income inequality, and measuring the demand for skills in the labor force. He is the author of numerous studies and articles including: Measures of Unemployment Duration as Guides to Policy; The Declining Middle Class Hypothesis; The Male-Female Wage Gap; The Unemployment Experience of the Workforce; The Minimum Wage and Family Income Inequality; and Studies of Inequality in the Distribution of Earnings in the 1980s and 1990s.
Since October 2004, Dr. Michael W. Horrigan has served as the Assistant Commissioner in the Division of Producer Prices and Price Indexes in the Office of Prices and Living Conditions, the division that is responsible for the Producer Price Index Program. The Producer Price Index (PPI) program releases more than 8,000 price indexes that measure the average change over time in the prices received by domestic producers of goods and services.
Mike began working at the BLS in 1986 as a research economist and has served as program manager for the BLS Establishment Surveys of Employer-Provided Training (1991-1996) and as Director of the BLS National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS) Program (1996-2001). The NLS program gathers detailed information about the labor market experiences and other aspects of the lives of six groups of men and women. The surveys include data about a wide range of events such as schooling and career transitions, marriage and fertility, training investments, child-care usage, and drug and alcohol use. The depth and breadth of each survey allow for analysis of an expansive variety of topics such as the transition from school to work, job mobility, youth unemployment, educational attainment and the returns to education, welfare recipiency, the impact of training, and retirement decisions.
Between 2001 and 2004, Mike was the Assistant Commissioner in the Office of Occupational Statistics and Employment Projections at the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). This office conducts the biannual Occupational Employment Survey, which produces detailed occupational employment and wage information by industry for the nation, by State and Metropolitan Statistical area. His responsibilities also included the BLS long-term projections of industry and occupational employment, which are updated and released every two years.
Other significant work experience includes serving as a Senior Labor Economist at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers from 1990-1991. He holds a doctorate in Economics from Purdue University and is the author of numerous publications, including articles on unemployment duration, earnings and income inequality, and measuring the demand for skills in the labor force. He is the author of numerous studies and articles including: Measures of Unemployment Duration as Guides to Policy; The Declining Middle Class Hypothesis; The Male-Female Wage Gap; The Unemployment Experience of the Workforce; The Minimum Wage and Family Income Inequality; and Studies of Inequality in the Distribution of Earnings in the 1980s and 1990s.