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Marlene Kim

Associate Professor, at UMass Boston since 2000.

Areas of Special Interest

Race and gender discrimination, the working poor

Fall 2009 Office Hours: Tues & Thurs 12:15-1:00 and by appointment

Contact Information

Office: Wheatley 5-027

Phone: 617-287-6954

E-mail: marlene.kim@umb.edu

Curriculum Vitae (.pdf)

Representative Publications

Race and Economic Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century, London: Routledge. Marlene Kim, (Ed.) 2007.

"Has the Race Penalty for Black Women Disappeared?", Feminist Economics, 8(2), July 2002: 115-124.

"Women Paid Low Wages: Who They Are and Where They Work," Monthly Labor Review, 123(9), September 2000: 26-30.

"Inertia and Wage Discrimination in The California State Civil Service" Industrial Relations, 38(1), January 1999: 46-68.

"Where the Grass is Greener: Voluntary Turnover and Wage Premiums," Industrial Relations, 38(4), October 1999: 584-603.

"The Working Poor: A Statistical Artifact?" (with Catherine Weinberger).  Eastern Economic Journal, 25(2), Spring 1999: 155-167.

“Are the Working Poor Lazy?”  Challenge, 41(3), May/June 1998: 85-99.

Complete publications list with more links here

Awards

Recipient of the first Rhonda Williams Prize, 2002, from the International Association for Feminist Economics, “for work that best reflects Rhonda William's legacy of scholarship and activism.” Awarded for past work and for “Has the Race Penalty for Black Women Disappeared in the United States?” Feminist Economics, 8:2: 115-124.

Teaching Philosophy (.pdf)

Courses

Economics 100, Introduction to Economics

Economics 391, Unions and Collective Bargaining

Economics 394, Sex-Segregated Labor Markets

Economics 395, Economics of Social Welfare

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