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Distinguished Fellow - 2003

Mahmood A. Zaidi has been a pioneer in the advancement and dissemination of knowledge in the areas of international labor market analysis and human resource management. In a highly productive career, he has been a teacher, an innovator in research, and a pioneer in building educational links among countries.

Zaidi was born in India and is now a naturalized citizen of the United States. He is professor of Human Resources and Industrial Relations at the University of Minnesota and Director of International Program Development for the Carlson School of Management. He holds B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of California-Los Angeles, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California-Berkeley. He has taught at universities in Australia, Austria, China, France, Poland, and Switzerland. Connecting his teaching and research interests, Prof. Zaidi co-authored a widely-used labor markets textbook for Canada with Sulvia Ostry, Labour Economics in Canada. Prof. Zaidi’s research contributions can be grouped as follows:

1. Wage and price determination: Working with Calvin D. Seibert, Zaidi studied wage-price mechanisms in the Kennedy/Johnson guideposts and the Nixon controls program.
2. Labor shortages and economics activity: Prof. Zaidi’s work with Malcolm Cohen, recently published as Global Skills Shortage (2002), developed an operating concept for measuring the global public policy implications of occupational shortages across countries.
3. Effects of globalization on domestic labor markets: Prof. Zaidi joined with Daniel J.B. Mitchell in producing The Economics of Human Resources Management (1990) and related papers. As early as 1998, they noted economic forces in the United States that were loosening the employment relationship and correctly predicted that these forces would affect other countries.

Prof. Zaidi has been active in the North American Economics and Finance Association (NAEFA) since the early 1980s. He has made valuable contributions to the advancement of the Association, has been a long-standing member of its executive committee and has served as its president. He was one of the founders in 1989 of the North American Journal of Economics and Finance and served as co-editor until 2002. He has accumulated and maintained the Association’s institutional memory and contributed greatly to the growth of NAEFA. In recognition and appreciation of his outstanding contributions to the economics profession and to this Association, Mahmood A. Zaidi is elected Distinguished Fellow.

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