Jennifer Hunt
Jennifer Hunt is a professor of economics at
Rutgers University. She previously served as deputy assistant secretary for microeconomic analysis at the
U.S. Department of the Treasury after serving a term as
Chief Economist to the
U.S. Secretary of Labor, serving under acting secretary
Seth Harris and Secretary
Thomas Perez. She is a research associate at the
National Bureau of Economic Research. She has done research in the areas of employment and unemployment policy, immigration, wage inequality, transition economics, crime and corruption. Her past research focused on immigration and innovation in the United States, the U.S. science and engineering workforce, and the 2008-2009 recession in Germany. Her research on immigration has been cited by media in the context of
immigration reform legislation, currently under consideration by the
U.S. Congress. Her contemporary research focuses primarily on the geographic composition of technology, discrimination, and unemployment.
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