Announcement
The U.S. research literature on the employment effects of minimum wages is often described as contradictory and conclusive. In this lecture, Prof. Neumark will present new evidence from a survey and empirical analysis that shows that indeed most work finds that higher minimum wages reduce employment of low-skilled workers, and that some important evidence suggesting the opposite is flawed and reaches the wrong conclusion.
Information
- Time and Date: 12:15-13:15, Thursday, November 9, 2023 (JST)
- Venue: Online
- Language: English
- Admission: Free
- Host: Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI)
Speakers
- Speaker:
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- David NEUMARK (Distinguished Professor of Economics, University of California, Irvine)
David Neumark is Distinguished Professor of Economics and Co-Director of the Center for Population, Inequality, and Policy at UCI. He has previously held positions at the Federal Reserve Board, the University of Pennsylvania, Michigan State University, and the Public Policy Institute of California. He has made research contributions in numerous areas of labor economics that intersect with important public policy issues. His research on labor market discrimination has opened up new methods of measuring discrimination. He was also one of the original contributors to the “new minimum wage research,” helping to pioneer the use of state-level minimum wage variation to estimate minimum wage effects.
Neumark has authored many studies on age discrimination and the economics of aging. Recently, he has studied how stronger age discrimination laws complement policy reforms intended to increase labor supply of older workers, conducted a large-scale field experiment testing for age discrimination, and developed methods to test for age stereotypes in job ads and explore how these influence job search of older workers.
- David NEUMARK (Distinguished Professor of Economics, University of California, Irvine)
- Moderator:
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- KAWAGUCHI Daiji (Program Director ＆Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Graduate School of Economics, University of Tokyo / Graduate School of Public Policy)
