Wages, School Quality, and Employment Demand

David Card (Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Labor Economics, University of California, Berkeley),Alan B. Krueger (Assistant Secretary for Economic Affairs and Chief Economist, US Treasury Department, and Bendheim Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University.)

Wages, School Quality, and Employment Demand
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
16 June 2016
Pages
324
ISBN
9780198779957

Wages, School Quality, and Employment Demand

David Card (Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Labor Economics, University of California, Berkeley),Alan B. Krueger (Assistant Secretary for Economic Affairs and Chief Economist, US Treasury Department, and Bendheim Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University.)

David Card and Alan B. Krueger have made substantial contributions to the field of Labor Economics. Their influential work focuses on policy-relevant issues and spans vast and important topics, including: unemployment, minimum wage, migration, measurement error, unions, wage differentials among various groups in the US, labor demand, social insurance, and technological change. Card and Krueger have also been extremely influential in econometrics methodology; they were at the forefront of employing an ‘experimental’ approach in their research design and implementation. Both of these IZA prize winners have made significant methodological contributions on instrumental variable estimation, measurement error, regression discontinuity methods, and the use of ‘natural’ experiments. This book provides an overview of their most important work and is divided two main parts: the first section focuses on school quality and the differences in wages across groups in the US; the second part concentrates on the effect of changes in the minimum wage on employment and wage setting. In section introductions, Card and Krueger offer their insight into these two areas and discuss the historical context for their research.

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