Teresa Ghilarducci

Professor of Economics; Director, Higgins Labor Research Center
(PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1984)
510 Flanner Hall
574-631-7581
email: tghilard@nd.edu
www.nd.edu/~econplcy/faculty_staff/ghilarducci.html

Geographic focus: United States and Latin America (Chile)

Thematic interests: Labor markets; social insurance; savings behavior; labor management.

Current Research: The financial and human resource aspects of pension systems, including private and public plans and Social Security; affirmative action, sexual harassment, and other issues pertaining to women in the labor market and collective bargaining.

Selected publications:The End of Retirement (forthcoming); coeditor, Work Options for Mature Americans (forthcoming 2007); coauthor, “How Defined Contribution Plans and 401(k)s Affect Employer Pension Costs,” Journal of Pension Economics and Finance (July 2006); coeditor, In Search of Retirement Security: The Changing Mix of Social Insurance, Employee Benefits, and Individual Responsibility (2005); coauthor, Portable Pension Plans for Casual Labor Markets: Lessons from the Operating Engineers Central Pension Fund (1995); Labor’s Capital: The Economics and Politics of Private Pensions (1992). Ghilarducci publishes in referred journals and testifies frequently before the US Congress.