Stephen RG Jones is the Acting Academic Director, Wilson College & Professor of Economics Emeritus, McMaster University.
Jones received a B.A. (Hons.) from King’s College Cambridge and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.
His research program concerns labour markets with particular focus on unemployment. He works with large datasets using econometric methods to reveal underlying patterns and assess questions of causality. His recent work concerns the economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Some principal career contributions address the measurement of unemployment, the assessment of the Hawthorne effect, the empirics of job search models and the modelling of social interactions such as conformism. He has published in the leading journals in economics and sociology and served a term as Co-Editor of the Canadian Journal of Economics.
At McMaster, former Chair of the Department of Economics and Chair of the University Budget Committee. Externally, has served as Director of the Canadian International Labour Network, Chair of the Harry Johnson and Robert Mundell Prize Committee of the Canadian Economics Association, and Program Director of the Canadian Labour Market and Skills Researcher Network. Jones has also served as Committee Member and Chair on several SSHRC Grant Awarding committees.
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