Ronald Oaxaca

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Ronald L. Oaxaca is the McClelland Professor of Economics at the University of Arizona, Tucson. His areas of research include labor economics, applied econometrics and applied microeconomics.

Professor Oaxaca conducts research on panel data analysis of faculty salary determination. He has been engaged in research on statistical discrimination, consistent estimators of linear probability models, the effects of ability and family background on optimal schooling levels, a labor supply model of dual job holding, the production of engineering degrees in American universities, the effects of technological change on gender wage differentials, and comparative trends in gender wage differentials between Denmark and the U.S.

Hispanic Business magazine has identified Professor Ronald Oaxaca as one of the 100 Most Influential Hispanics in the United States. The Oaxaca Decomposition, an econometric procedure Ron developed thirty years ago, is used worldwide to sort out claims of discrimination in salaries and wages. The Oaxaca Decomposition has been cited in hundreds of published research papers and in countless discrimination lawsuits.^{[citation needed]}