Ann Pelcovits Bartel (born September 15, 1949) is the Merrill Lynch Professor of Workforce Transformation at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. She graduated from the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...

in 1970, and completed her PhD in economics at

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

in 1974.

Research

Bartel's dozens of published papers have included such topics as employee training,

human capital Human capital is a concept used by social scientists to designate personal attributes considered useful in the production process. It encompasses employee knowledge, skills, know-how, good health, and education. Human capital has a substantial ...

investments, job transitions, and the impact of technological change on

productivity Productivity is the efficiency of production of goods or services expressed by some measure. Measurements of productivity are often expressed as a ratio of an aggregate output to a single input or an aggregate input used in a production proces ...

, worker skills, and

outsourcing Outsourcing is an agreement in which one company hires another company to be responsible for a planned or existing activity which otherwise is or could be carried out internally, i.e. in-house, and sometimes involves transferring employees and ...

decisions.

Selected works

* Bartel, Ann P. "Productivity gains from the implementation of employee training programs." Industrial relations: a journal of economy and society 33, no. 4 (1994): 411–425. * Bartel, Ann P., and Frank R. Lichtenberg. "The comparative advantage of educated workers in implementing new technology." The Review of Economics and statistics (1987): 1–11. * Bartel, Ann P. "Where do the new US immigrants live?." Journal of Labor Economics 7, no. 4 (1989): 371–391. * Bartel, Ann P. "Training, wage growth, and job performance: Evidence from a company database." Journal of Labor Economics 13, no. 3 (1995): 401–425. * Bartel, Ann, Casey Ichniowski, and Kathryn Shaw. "How does information technology affect productivity? Plant-level comparisons of product innovation, process improvement, and worker skills." The quarterly journal of Economics 122, no. 4 (2007): 1721–1758.

References

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