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Session 9: U.S. Employment Statistics
Presentations
Evelina Tainer slideshow
Ben Herzon slideshow
Michael Chriszt slideshow
Links of Interest
BLS Statistics on Employment and Unemployment
Speakers
Maurine Haver
President
Haver Analytics
Maurine is President and founder of Haver Analytics Inc., an economic consulting and information services company. Prior to starting Haver Analytics in 1978, she was an economist in the economic forecasting group of General Electric in New York, a member of the International Staff of Companie Bull General Electric in Paris and a consultant in the Foreign Currency Exposure Management Group of the Chase Manhattan Bank in London.
Maurine served as President of the National Association of Business Economists (1994-95) and now chairs the NABE campaign for Quality Economic Data that she initiated during her year as president. In her role as Chair of the NABE Statistics Committee, she testifies before Congress on statistical issues, conducts quarterly meetings which bring together producers and users of federal statistics and organizes seminars to help users better understand the statistics available from government and private sources.
Maurine chairs the Business Research Advisory Council of the Bureau of Labor Statistics and is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Bureau of Economic Analysis. She has served as secretary of the Forecasters Club of New York since 1992. She is a past president of the New York Association for Business Economics (1989-90), the Downtown Economists Club (1993-94) and the Money Marketeers of New York University (1998-99). She chaired the board of the Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics (COPAFS) during 2001-2003. She currently serves on the board of Mutual of America and is a member of the American Economic Association, the American Statistical Association and the National Economists Club.
Maurine holds a B.S. in Economics and Mathematics from Michigan State University, an M.B.A. from the Stern School of New York University and completed her oral exam for a PhD in International Economics at NYU.
Evelina Tainer
Washington State Employment Security Department
Evelina Tainer is Chief Economist of the Labor Market and Economic Analysis branch of the Washington State Employment Security Department, which collects, analyses and distributes the full range of labor markets information for Washington State. She has been in this position since May 2006.
Before entering state service, Evelina Tainer was chief economist for California-based company Econoday, Inc, for eight years, where she provided analysis and education regarding the economy’s relationship to investment behavior. Previously, Evelina was responsible for directing short term forecasting analysis for a U.S. bank and the brokerage arm of an international bank in Chicago. She was the primary architect of the Bankers Guide to Economic Indicators that was instituted at the Federal Reserve Board’s Banking School in the 1990s. She has also taught economics and finance at several Chicago-area universities and is currently an adjunct lecturer at the University of Illinois at Chicago through its online MBA program.
Evelina Tainer authored Using Economic Indicators to Improve Investment Analysis, Third Edition (2006, John Wiley). The second edition also has a Chinese translation.
Evelina was on the Board of Directors for the National Association for Business Economics from 1993 to 1996. She chaired the committee for the Annual Meeting held in New Orleans in 1997 and the Washington DC Policy Seminar in 1995 and was the first chair of the NABE Financial Roundtable. She is currently on the Editorial Board of Business Economics.
In 2004, Evelina was inducted into the Alumni Leadership Academy at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Business Administration.
She has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Illinois at Chicago where she also received her undergraduate degree.
Ben Herzon
Macroeconomic Advisers
Ben joined Macroeconomic Advisers in June 1998 as a 'Mr.' and was upgraded to a 'Dr.' in May 1999 when he was awarded a Ph.D. in economics from Washington University in St. Louis. Ben's primary responsibilities at Macroeconomic Advisers involve utilizing monthly data to update MA's current-quarter forecast. This involves research into the construction of the National Accounts and modeling of interactions among monthly data series. Ben is a member of the National Association of Business Economics and a former member of the renowned rock group Lunker Buzz. Prior to his current stint with applied macroeconomics, Ben traveled the country in a Ford Econoline 150 with the band playing both known and unknown clubs for unconscionably low sums of money.
Michael Chriszt
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Michael Chriszt is the director of International and Regional Analysis in the Latin America Research Group at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. In addition to directing the work of the LARG, he monitors and reports on economic, financial, and political developments in foreign economies and the states of the Sixth District. He holds degrees in diplomacy and foreign affairs and history, and a master’s degree in political economy from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He joined the bank in 1989.
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