Filer, Randall        

Received his B.A. magna cum laude with highest honours in Economics from Haverford College in 1974 and his Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University in 1979, where he specialized in Labor Economics (Industrial Relations Section), Demography (Office of Population Research) and Urban Economics. From 1978 to 1986 Assistant Professor of Economics at Brandeis University. Since 1986 has been Associate Professor and then Professor of Economics at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Since 1993 he has been a Visiting Professor of Economics at CERGE-EI, Prague, Deputy Director for Graduate Studies at CERGE for 1994 and 1995, and Visiting Research Scholar at the Economics Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague. Fulbright Scholar, 1993-1994. Philip Morris Visiting Professor at CERGE-EI from 1996 through 2001. Research Fellow at the William Davidson Institute (University of Michigan). the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, Center for Economic Studies and the Institute for Economic Research (CES/Ifo), Munich and the Manhattan Institute, New York. In 2007-2008 Visiting Scholar at the Economics Institute, Zagreb, Croatia.