Lecture 3 of the 40th Anniversary of BNUBS

【Topic】New International Evidence on the Effects of Minimum Wages

【Time】 15:00-16:30 PM, May 24, 2019 (Friday)

[Venue] Room 1620, Rear Main Building

【 Speaker 】 Professor David Neumark, University of California at Irivine

[Host] Prof. Li Shi, School of Economics and Business Administration, Beijing Normal University

【Abstract】Some preliminary findings from two in-progress studies will be presented:

The first study explores heterogeneity in estimated employment effects across studies of developing countries.

The second study delves into the distributional effects of minimum wages, using comprehensive income tax data from Israel on both workers and their employers.

【About the Speaker】David Neumark is Chancellor’s Professor of Economics and Director of the Economic Self-Sufficiency Policy Research Institute (ESSPRI) at UCI and a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.

He has made significant research contributions in numerous areas of labor economics that intersect with important public policy issues. Neumark’s research has contributed particularly to the methodological development regarding the measure of labor market discrimination, to the “new minimum wage research,” and to the economics of aging and age discrimination. He is also actively engaged as a consultant on large, class-action discrimination lawsuits.

Neumark has published intensively in top journals such as American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Economic Journal, Journal of Public Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Urban Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Literature.