Christopher J. O'Leary

Senior Economist
W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
E-mail: Oleary@upjohninstitute.org


Christopher J. O'Leary is a senior economist. His research on unemployment insurance has examined reemployment bonuses, profiling, benefit adequacy, and experience rating. He has evaluated training, wage subsidies, public works, self-employment, and employment service programs for labor ministries in the transition countries of Hungary, Poland, and China. For the U.S. Department of Labor he is Developing a frontline decision support system for one-stop career centers under the Workforce Investment Act. His research has also been sponsored by the World Bank, the International Labor Office, and Human Resources Development Canada. His research papers have appeared in Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, International Labor Review, New England Economic Review, Economics of Transition, and Applied Economics. O'Leary completed undergraduate studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and earned a doctorate in economics from the University of Arizona. In 1999 he was elected to the National Academy of Social Insurance.