Bio

Stephen A. Woodbury is a Professor of Economics at Michigan State University and a Senior Economist at the W.E. Upjohn Institute in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He has held faculty appointments at Penn State University and the University of Stirling (U.K.), and was Deputy Director of the Advisory Council on Unemployment Compensation (U.S. Department of Labor) during 1993-94. He is a Past-President of the Midwest Economics Association. He has worked on policies to assist unemployed workers and on issues in employee benefits. His books include Search Theory and Unemployment (co-edited with Carl Davidson, 2002), Employee Benefits and Labor Markets in Canada and the United States (co-edited with William Alpert, 2000), and The Tax Treatment of Fringe Benefits (co-authored with Wei-Jang Huang, 1991). He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1981.