 Daniel J. B. Mitchell
HARRT Co-Chair
Professor Emeritus, UCLA Anderson School of Management
and School of Public Affairs
(310) 825-1504 tel
(310) 829-1042 fax
daniel.j.b.mitchell@anderson.ucla.edu
DANIEL
J.B. MITCHELL is professor-emeritus at the Anderson Graduate School of
Management and the School
of Public Affairs,
U.C.L.A. Within the latter school, he chaired the Department of Policy Studies
(now the Department of Public Policy) during 1996-97. Prof. Mitchell was
formerly director of the U.C.L.A. Institute for Research on Labor and
Employment (1979-90) and continues to serve on the Institute’s advisory
committee. During Phase II of the federal wage/price controls program of the
early 1970s, Prof. Mitchell was chief economist of the Pay Board, the agency
that administered wage controls. He was twice associated with the Brookings
Institution in Washington, D.C., including a stint as a senior fellow
in the economic studies program (1978-79), and participated in several
Brookings-sponsored research projects.
Professional
activities have included memberships and committee responsibilities on the
Executive Boards of the Labor and Employment Relations Association (both
national and Southern California), the North American
Economics and Finance Association, and the Institute of Industrial
Relations Association. Prof. Mitchell is a past
president of the North American Economics and Finance Association. He has also
served on the nominating committee of the American Economic Association and on
the editorial boards of various academic journals. He was co-editor of the
journal "Industrial Relations" for many years. Currently, Prof. Mitchell edits the annual
“California Policy Options” volumes and contributes a chapter each year on the California state budget.
Prof.
Mitchell regularly served as a member of the Human Resource Forecast Panel
while it operated at the Conference Board and later at U.C.L.A. He is a member
of the International Industrial Relations Association and chairs one of its
study groups (Pay Systems). At UCLA, he was co-director and then director
(1999-2000) of the UCLA Anderson Business Forecasting Project. As a faculty
member at UCLA, he has created a course on "California Policy Issues"
(now co-taught with former presidential candidate and Massachusetts Governor
Michael Dukakis), now a core course of the minor in public policy.
Prof.
Mitchell has served as a consultant to the Congressional Budget Office, the
Federal Reserve Board, the President's Council on Wage and Price Stability, the
U.S. Department of Labor, and the International Labour Organisation. He is
neutral chair of the board that oversees the health plans of the Los Angeles
County Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Amalgamated Transit Union
Local 1277.
Mitchell’s
publications have generally been in the areas of wage determination, wage-price
controls, concession bargaining, flexible pay plans, non-wage employee
benefits, use of labor-market data, labor standards in international trade, and
other aspects of labor-market analysis.
He also focuses on California
policy issues, especially state finance.
Prof.
Mitchell is the author of Pensions, Politics, and the Elderly: Historic Social
Movements and Their Lessons for Our Aging Society (M.E. Sharpe, 2000). The book
uses California’s
colorful experience with “pensionite” movements of the state’s seniors during
the period from the 1920s through the 1940s to draw implications for the
upcoming retirement of the baby boom. In
2007, Prof. Mitchell received the Excellence in Education Award from the Labor
and Employment Relations Association.
Mitchell
lives in Santa Monica, California with his wife Alice. They have two adult children.
Interview
Why does California have an annual budget crisis? Watch
a brief video with Prof. Mitchell (Windows Media)
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