Harry J. Holzer

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Nonresident Senior Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Program

Harry Holzer specializes in economics, welfare reform, and low-wage labor markets. A former U.S. Department of Labor economist, he is a public policy professor at Georgetown University.  | View Full Bio

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Expertise

  • Economics
  • Welfare reform
  • Low-wage labor markets

Experience

Current Positions

  • Professor of Public Policy, Georgetown University
  • Institute Fellow, Urban Institute
  • Member, editorial board, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management

Past Positions

  • Chief Economist, U.S. Department of Labor
  • Professor of Economics, Michigan State University

Education

  • Ph.D. (1983) and A.B. (1978) Harvard University

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