Stephen Woodbury, Senior Economist, W.E. Upjohn

Stephen A. Woodbury, Senior Economist

Responsible for research program on compensation and employee benefits. Under a grant from the William H. Donner Foundation, Woodbury and William Alpert have coordinated a project on "Employee Benefits, Labor Costs, and Labor Markets in the U.S. and Canada." Currently studying "Employer Responses to the Unemployment Insurance Payroll Tax," along with researchers from Westat, Inc., under a grant from the UI Service of the U.S. Department of Labor. Served as Deputy Director, Advisory Council on Unemployment Compensation, 1993-94.

Recent publications include

"Retiree Health Benefits and Retirement", with James Marton. Upjohn Institute Working Paper WP06-128, 2006.
"Refundable Tax Credits for Health Insurance: The Sensitivity of Simulated Impacts to Assumed Behavior", with David W. Emmons, and Eva Madly. Upjohn Institute Working Paper WP05-119, 2005.
"Trend and Cycle Analysis of Unemployment Insurance and the Employment Service", with Wayne Vroman. Employment and Training Administration Occasional Paper 2005-04, U.S. Department of Labor, 2005.
"Income Replacement and Reemployment Programs in Michigan." In Michigan at the Millennium: A Benchmark and Analysis of Its Fiscal and Economic Structure, edited by Charles Ballard, Paul Courant, Douglas Drake, Ronald Fisher, and Elizabeth Gerber. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2003. Pp. 389-412.
"Optimal Unemployment Insurance with Risk Aversion and Job Destruction,” with Carl Davidson. In Search Theory and Unemployment, edited by Stephen A. Woodbury and Carl Davidson. Boston and Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002. Pp. 177-213.
"Participation in the Reemployment Bonus Experiments," with Paul Decker and Chris O’Leary. In Reemployment Bonuses in the Unemployment Insurance System: Evidence from Three Field Experiments, edited by Philip K. Robins and Robert G. Spiegelman. Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2001. Pp. 77-103.
"From Social Experiment to Program," with Carl Davidson. In Reemployment Bonuses in the Unemployment Insurance System: Evidence from Three Field Experiments, edited by Philip K. Robins and Robert G. Spiegelman. Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2001. Pp. 175-222.
“Wage-Rate Subsidies for Dislocated Workers,” with Carl Davidson. Research in Employment Policy 2 (2000): 141-184.
“Economics, Economists, and Public Policy.” Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance 40 (2000): 417-430.
"Employee Benefits and the Distribution of Income and Wealth," with Daniel Slottje and Rod Anderson. In Employee Benefits and Labor Markets in Canada and the United States, edited by William T. Alpert and Stephen A. Woodbury. Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2000. Pp. 349-378.

Dr. Woodbury received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and joined the Institute in 1984 as Senior Economist. He has also been on the faculty of Michigan State University since 1982, where he is now Professor of Economics.

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