Joseph McLaughlin, MBA

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Joseph McLaughlin

Joseph McLaughlin, MBA is a consulting forensic economist with Vocational Economics, Inc.  He received a Bachelor's degree in Economics and a Master's of Business Administration from Northeastern University, both with high honors.  Mr. McLaughlin is employed as a Senior Research Associate at the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University.  In September 2009, he participated in the replication of the Gamboa Gibson Worklife Tables, used to define the reduction in worklife expectancy that exists for persons with partial disability.

As a Senior Research Associate, Mr. McLaughlin conducts research on the labor force behavior, earning experiences, industrial characteristics and occupational experiences of working-age adults with disabilities. He has presented research on the labor market, economic, and social outcomes of persons with disabilities to state vocational rehabilitation policymakers and practitioners at national and state conferences.

Over the past six years, Mr. McLaughlin has authored and co-authored several academic journal articles and numerous research papers on a wide array of economic and labor market issues at the national, state, and local levels. He has extensive experience analyzing and interpreting survey data from the U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Education, and U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Joseph has appeared on television and radio programs to discuss his research and has provided testimony on his labor market research to the Massachusetts House of Representatives as well as Massachusetts Senate legislative hearings.

Mr. McLaughlin's economics training and professional research experience with labor market and disability data from the American Community Survey and the Current Population Survey provide him with the expertise to analyze the loss of earning capacity in wrongful death and total disability cases.