Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/223993 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 13551
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
H. Gregg Lewis did fundamental research outlining the economic effects of trade unions and considering how to measure them carefully. He also laid out the theory of the supply and demand for labor in careful detail that has underlain economists' thinking about these outcomes. Aside from innovating modern-style research in labor economics, his work provided an exemplar of care in thinking about and measuring economic phenomena. His study of labor markets foreshadowed numerous subsequent fundamental articles, including our theories of hedonic prices and of wage selectivity. Supervising numerous Chicago Ph.D. dissertations, all of which heavily bore his stamp and two of which were by future Nobel Prize winners, he contributed indirectly to the development of applied microeconomics through several later generations of researchers.
Subjects: 
economics of unions
labor demand
labor supply
Chicago dissertations
general equilibrium
empirical methods
JEL: 
B21
C29
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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