Office: RBC 411 Phone: 610-758-3425 Fax: 610-758-4667 Email: tjh7@lehigh.edu Principles of Economics Intermediate Macroeconomic Analysis

Department of Economics:  Professor

Education
-  Cleveland State University, B.A., M.A.
-  University of Notre Dame, Ph.D.

Thomas Hyclak has been a member of the economics faculty at Lehigh since 1979 and was department chair from 1999 to 2006. He served the College of Business and Economics as Interim Dean. His research has involved a number of empirical studies of the determinants of wage levels, unemployment and earnings distributions in urban labor markets.Professor Hyclak has also published several studies of the impact of human resource management innovations and industrial relations activities on the performance of workers and their organizations. He lives in Bethlehem with his wife Jean, daughter Anna, son Ben, and retired racing greyhound, Glory.

Research Areas

• Labor Market Analysis
• Human Resource Management
• Community Economic Development

Selected Publications

• Thomas Hyclak, Geraint Johnes and Robert Thornton, Fundamentals of Labor Economics (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2005).
• Vera Adamchik, Thomas Hyclak and Arthur King, "The Wage Structure and Wage Distribution in Poland, 1994-2001," International Journal of Manpower, vol. 24, no. 8 (2003), pp. 916-946.
• Jonathan Kramer and Thomas Hyclak, "Why Strikes Occur: Evidence from the Capital Markets," Industrial Relations, vol. 41, no. 1 (2002), pp. 80-93.

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