John F. Schnell, Ph.D.
Economics

 

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Professor

Office: 306 BAB
Phone: 256.824.6710

Education

  • Ph.D., 1984, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Economics.
  • M.A., 1978, The Pennsylvania State University, Economics.

Current Teaching Responsiblities

  • Microeconomic Analysis (ECN 345)
  • Foundations of Economics (ECN 600)
  • Special Projects: Fun with Games & Networks (ECN 490/590)

Research and Teaching Interests

  • Internal Organization of the Firm/Human Resource Analysis
  • Labor Economics and Industrial Relations
  • Economic Demography
  • "The Relationship between Competitive Strategy and a Firm's Reliance on Long-Term Employment Contracts." (with C. Gramm), Korean Journal of Industrial Relations (December 2006): 107-136. (Winner of the Korean Industrial Relations Association Distinguished Research Award, June 15, 2007.)
  • "Remedy-Seeking Responses to Wrongful Dismissal: Comparing the Similarity-Attraction and Similarity-Betrayal Paradigms." International Journal of Conflict Management. (with C. Gramm and E. Weatherly), (Vol. 17, 2006).
  • "The Effects of Using Alternative Types of Staffing Arrangements" (with C. Gramm), Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations, Vol. 13, (2005), pp. 27-68.
  • "The Use of Flexible Staffing Arrangements in Core Production Jobs" (with C. Gramm), Industrial & Labor Relations Review, Vol. 54, No. 2 (January 2001): pp. 245-258.