{{Short description|American economist}} {{Infobox person |name = Eileen Appelbaum |birth_date = {{birth year and age|1940}} |birth_place = |death_date = |death_place = |education = Temple University (BA, MA)<br>University of Pennsylvania (MA, PhD) }} '''Eileen Appelbaum''' (born June 13, 1940) is an American economist. She is the co-director<ref>{{cite web |title=Eileen Appelbaum |url=https://cepr.net/staff-member/eileen-appelbaum/ |publisher=Center for Economic and Policy Research |access-date=18 April 2022 |date=23 February 2021}}</ref> of the Center for Economic and Policy Research and an expert in private equity and labor relations.

==Education== Appelbaum holds a PhD in economics from the University of Pennsylvania.<ref>{{cite web |title=Eileen Appelbaum |url=https://sase.org/people/eileen-appelbaum/ |publisher=SASE |access-date=18 April 2022}}</ref>

== Career == Her most recent book, ''Private Equity at Work: When Wall Street Manages Main Street'', which she co-authored with Rosemary Batt, was a finalist for the Academy of Management's George R. Terry Book Award in 2016. She also co-wrote, with Ruth Milkman, ''Unfinished Business: Paid Family Leave in California and the Future of U.S. Work-Family Policy,'' published by Cornell University Press in 2013.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Books |url=https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/books/ |access-date=2025-03-03 |website=Cornell University Press |language=en-US}}</ref>

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==External links== * [http://cepr.net/about-us/staff/eileen-appelbaum CEPR homepage]

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