Wallace Hendricks
Professor Emeritus, Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations
and Department of Economics
In Brief
- Ph.D. in Economics, University of California, Berkeley, 1973
- Bachelor of Arts in Economics, University of California, Berkeley, 1968
- Winner of the 1998 ILIR Faculty Teaching Excellence Award
On Teaching
"I was really surprised when I won the first-ever ILIR Teaching Excellence Award in 1998. I have a reputation for being a tough teacher, which I probably deserve. But it was gratifying that students nominated me for the award. I have always tried to make my classes relevant to the real world and give students the skills they will need every day. When you teach economics, that can be a challenge. I spend as much time as they need to learn the concepts important to real world activities."
Research Interests
Hendricks research interests include the impact of government regulation on labor and internal labor markets, performance evaluation and wage changes and statistical discrimination in hiring. He has published recently in Emory Law Journal, Human Relations, Industrial Relations, and Journal of Labor Economics. He also served on the editorial boards of Review of Economics and Statistics, 1987 to 1992; Advances in Labor and Industrial Relations, 1988 to present; and Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 1989 to the present. Hendricks has consulted for Research Triangle Institute, Electric Power Research Institute, Central Illinois Public Service, Illinois Power, Commonwealth Edison, Continental Airline, Illinois Commerce commission, U.S. Department of Energy, Federal Trade Commission, and Trans World Airlines. He is listed in Who's Who in Economics, a listing of the top 1000 economists in the world in citations in the Social Science Citation Index.
Courses Taught
LIR 545: Economics of Human Resources
To reach Professor Hendricks:
219 LIR Building, MC-504
504 E. Armory Avenue, Champaign, IL 61820-6297
(217)333-6028; (217)333-6028 fax
email: wally-h@uiuc.edu