John H. Bishop Research Materials

John H. Bishop is an emeritus professor of the Department of Human Resource Studies at the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University. He received his Bachelors Degree from Oberlin College in 1962. After two years in the Peace Corps in Northern Nigeria, he studied Economics at the University of Michigan, obtaining a Masters in 1967 and a PhD in 1974.

Professor Bishop has published numerous articles on education reform, the impact of the quality of education on the productivity of individuals and nations, the impact of the hiring, training and promotion policies of business on incentives for students to study and schools to set high standards, the determinants of and payoffs to employer training and the effectiveness of institutions which match workers and jobs.

Prior to coming to Cornell in 1986, John was director of the Center for Research on Youth Employability and Associate Director: Research at the National Center for Research in Vocational Education. He has served on numerous advisory committees: the Job Training Partnership Experiment Advisory Committee, the Advisory Panel for the Office of Technology Assessment's study Training in the Workplace, Advisory Committee on Federal Workforce Quality Assessment, and Education Committee of the Competitiveness Policy Council. He chaired the Admissions and Incentives Subcommittee of the SUNY Task Group on Public Education and Co-chaired the Goal 5 Technical Planning Subgroup on International Workforce Skills of the National Education Goals Panel.