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Julius Shiskin
Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics
In office
July 1973 – October 1978
PresidentRichard Nixon
Gerald Ford
Jimmy Carter
Preceded byBen Burdetsky (Acting)
Succeeded byJanet L. Norwood
Personal details
Born(1912-10-13)October 13, 1912
New York, NY
DiedOctober 28, 1978(1978-10-28) (aged 66)
Washington, DC
EducationBS, MA Rutgers University
Columbia University

Julius Shiskin (October 13, 1912 – October 28, 1978 was an American economist and statistician who served as Chief Statistician of the Office of Management and Budget and as Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.[1][2] A career civil servant, he also worked in the planning division of the War Production Board during World War II and at the Census Bureau for more than two decades. Specializing in economic statistics, he was a major contributor to the development of business-cycle indicators and developed a seasonal adjustment method that is widely used for economic statistics in the United States and throughout much of the world.[3] [4]

Education

Shiskin was born in New York City and attended elementary and secondary schools in New Jersey.[1] He attended Rutgers University and studied under the economist Arthur F. Burns.[5] He graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1934 with a BS degree. From 1934 to 1938 he was an instructor in economics and statistics while he earned an MA degree from Rutgers and worked on a PhD from Columbia University but did not complete the dissertation. In 1937 Shiskin married Frances Levine with whom he had two daughters.[1]

Career

NBER

From 1938 to 1942, Shiskin was employed as a staff assistant at the National Bureau of Economic Research in New York City; Burns was a research associate there.[1][6] Wesley Clair Mitchell was the director of research, and the Bureau's research focused on economic measurement issues such as national income, capital formation, consumption, factor incomes, and productivity.[7][8]

War Production Board

In 1942 Shiskin took a position with the War Production Board.

References

  1. ^ a b c d Nomination: Hearing Before the Committee on Human Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-fifth Congress, First Session on Julius Shiskin, of Maryland, to Be Commissioner of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor, October 6, 1977 (PDF), U.S. Government Printing Office, 1977
  2. ^ "Julius Shiskin: 1912–1978", The American Statistician, 33 (3): 137, 1979, doi:10.1080/00031305.1979.10482679
  3. ^ "Julius Shiskin, 66, Dies; Commissioner of BLS". The Washington Star. October 30, 1978. p. B-6.
  4. ^ "Department of Labor: Nomination of Julius Shiskin to Be Commissioner of Labor Statistics. September 26, 1977", Administration of Jimmy Carter: Presidential Documents: Week Ending Friday, September 30, 1977
  5. ^ Wells, Wyatt C. (1994). Economist in an Uncertain World: Arthur F. Burns and the Federal Reserve, 1970–78. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-08496-X.
  6. ^ ""Arthur Burns Papers, (1957) 1969–87 (1988–90)"". Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library & Museum.
  7. ^ Mitchell, Wesley C. The National Bureau's First Quarter-Century: Twenty-Fifth Annual Report. New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  8. ^ Burns, Arthur F. Wesley Mitchell and the National Bureau: Twenty-Ninth Annual Report. New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

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