Professional Experience

• • Economist

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

  • 2012 - present

• • Assistant Research Professor

    University of Massachusetts, Amherst - Political Economy Research Institute

  • 2009 - 2012

Publications

• Smeeding, Timothy M., and Jeffrey P. Thompson (2011). "Recent Trends in Income Inequality: Labor, Wealth and More Complete Measures of Income," in Immervoll, Herwig, Andreas Peichl and Konstantinos Tatsiramos eds., Who Loses in the Downturn? Economic Crisis, Employment and Income Distributio. Research in Labor Economics, Vol. 32. Bingley, U.K.: Emerald, pp. 1-50.
• Thompson, Jeffrey P., and Tim Smeeding (Forthcoming). "US Country Case Study," in Jenkins, Stephen, Andrea Brandolini, John Micklewright and Brian Nolan eds., The Great Recession and the Distribution of Household Income. Oxford University Press.
• Thompson, Jeffrey P., Tim Smeeding, Asaf Levanon, and Esra Burak (2011). "Income, Inequality, and Poverty Over the Early Stages of the Great Recession," in Grusky, David, Bruce Western and Christopher Wimer eds., The Great Recession, Oct Ed. , pp. 82-126.
• Fitzpatrick, Katie, and Jeffrey P. Thompson (2010). "The Interaction of Metropolitan Cost-of-Living and the Federal Earned Income Tax Credit: One Size Fits all?" National Tax Journal, vol. 63, no. 3, pp. 419-445.
• Thompson, Jeffrey P. (2009). "Using Local Labor Market Data to Re-Examine the Employment Effects of the Minimum Wage," Industrial and Labor Relations Review, vol. 62, no. 3, pp. 343-366.

Presentations

• conference

  May 18, 2012

  National Tax Association Spring Symposium

  The Effect of Sales Taxes on Employment: New Evidence from Cross-Border Panel Data Analysis

• discussion

  March 28, 2011

  UMASS/Boston Globe Panel Discussion

  Recovering from the Recession

• seminar

  October 6, 2010

  Federal Reserve Bank of Boston's New England Study Group seminar series

  Prioritizing Approaches to Economic Development in New England: Skills, Infrastructure, and Tax Incentives

• conference

  February, 2010

  OECD/IZA conference "Economic Crisis, Rising Unemployment and Policy Responses: What Does It Mean for the Income Distribution?"

  Recent Trends in Income from Wealth and Income from Labor: Stocks, Flows and More Complete Measures of Well Being

• conference

  November 2008

  National Tax Association Conference

  Cost of living and the EITC

Other Activities