My Students

Sheng Li (Ph.D.) has just finished her thesis on bidding in the construction industry (2006) and is an Assistant Professor at the Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing

Mark Price (Ph.D.) has just finished his Ph.D. thesis on prevailing wage laws. His thesis received Honorable Mention for the best dissertation in labor by LERA

Charamporn Holumyong (Joy), (Ph.D. 2007) is a visiting professor of economics at UNLV. Joy's work is on immigrants in construction.

Wendy Thompson-Dawson (Ph.D. 2007) is now an assistant professor of economics at Monmouth College, Il.

Cory Sinclair, Ph.D. June 2003 and JD 2006, completed his dissertation on fan-based racial discrimination in the National Basketball Association, 1950 to 2002. Cory interned with the US Justice Department in 2005 and later worked for Parsons Behle and Latimer on issues of law and economics. Cory now works for the North Harvard Group working closely with experts on a wide variety of cases including intellectual property and antitrust matters. He is a licensed member of the Utah State Bar, and has been admitted to practice in the United States District Court, District of Utah as well.

Cory and I will present a paper on racial discrimination in the NBA at the Labor And Employment Relations Association this coming December (2007)

YongLee Goh competed his dissertation, "The Effects of Higher Workers Compensation Premiums on Construction Workers' Wages" and the Reporting of Injuries in May of 2004.

YongLee is now manager of the Labor and Welfare Department of the Federation of Korean Industries located in Seoul.

Nate Story is a graduating senior University Studies major working with me as his mentor in a multi-year, multi-disciplinary program on Sports and Society. Nate interned last summer with the Deseret News and is going to the Big Apple to find fame and fortune in sports reporting and commentary.

Phillip Jeffreys completed his masters project in June of 2002 on the long term trends in union wage differentials. Phillip found that over 100 years of data, the relative wages of different construction union occupations stayed constant within particular areas of the country. However, union wages within particular crafts across cities narrowed between the New Deal and the Great Society only to widen again after 1970.

Matt Chang (Ph.D. 2007) is an assistant professor of agricultural and resource economics at Cal State Chico.

Matt and I are working on agricultural labor issues in the California harvest labor market.

JaeWhan Kim (Ph.D. 2007) is on a 2-year post-doc in pharmacological economics at the University of Utah School of Pharmacy. JaeWhan's dissertation was on health insurance in construction.

Josh Folger has completed a masters degree in economics. He worked with Sheng Li on bidding practices in construction. Josh and Sheng have compiled the most extensive data base yet on contractor bidding. These data include 40 years of subcontractor bidding and 15 years of general contractor bidding in Utah construction.