19 Facts About Alice Nakamura

Alice Orcutt Nakamura was born on 1945 and is an American-Canadian economist and writer.

Alice Nakamura is a fellow of the Canadian Economics Association, which is the highest honour of the association.

Alice Nakamura is currently a professor of finance and management science at the University of Alberta where she has taught since 1972.

Alice Nakamura was the president of the International Association for Research on Income and Wealth from 2014 to 2016.

Alice Nakamura is married to Masao Nakamura and is the mother of Emi Nakamura.

Alice Nakamura is the daughter of economist Guy Orcutt, and the sister of economist Harriet Orcutt Duleep.

Alice Nakamura obtained her Bachelor of Science in Economics with a minor in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1973.

Alice Nakamura focuses much of her research on productivity and price measurement, employment, employment earnings and compensation policies as well as social policies and taxation, economic methodology and microanalytic simulation.

Alice Nakamura has written and edited 14 books and journal issues and is the author of 82 refereed articles and book chapters.

Alice Nakamura was the first woman to publish in the American Economic Review.

Alice Nakamura writes many of her works in cooperation with her husband, Masao Nakamura.

In 2012, Alice Nakamura collaborated with some colleagues from the University of Alberta to assess data produced by Statistics Canada.

Together with Michael Harper and Lu Zhang, Alice Nakamura investigates why Canada's Mutlifactor Productivity Index which is estimated by Statistics Canada was lower in 2011 than in 1977 although many policies were introduced to improve Canada's productivity.

Together with other economists, Alice Nakamura argues that the MPF estimated by Statistics Canada is reflective of the nations' actual productivity.

Together with her daughter Emi Nakamura, and Leonard Nakamura, Alice Nakamura examined price dynamics in retail chains and inflation measurement in the United States.

Alice Nakamura collaborated with Richard Freeman, Leonard Nakamura, Marc Prud'homme and Amanda Pyman to analyse Wal-Mart, the biggest private sector employer in Canada and one of the most important retailers in the United States.

Alice Nakamura writes this chapter alongside her husband Masao Nakamura and Atsushi Seike in the book entitled 'Changing Japanese Business, Economy and Society'.

However, Alice Nakamura emphasises that these cultural aspects often do not apply to women or older workers.

Where the United States have taken steps to decrease discrimination towards female workers, Alice Nakamura believes that Japan has not paid sufficient attention to this issue.