Neumark to study long-run effects of minimum wage on poverty and unemployment in poor and disadvantaged neighborhoods
Neumark to study long-run effects of minimum wage on poverty and unemployment in poor and disadvantaged neighborhoods
- September 22, 2015
- Funding provided by Employment Policies Institute
David Neumark, economics Chancellor’s Professor and director of the Center for Economics
& Public Policy, has received a $64,000 grant from the Employment Policies Institute
to study how federal and state minimum wage increases have influenced the economic
conditions of low-performing, minority geographic areas, and whether or not they have
created new clusters of poverty and low employment.
“There’s surprisingly little research on the question of whether minimum wages reduce
employment of minorities more than of whites,” Neumark said. His work has touched
on the subject, but focused mainly on employment effects as a whole, finding that
minimum wage increases result in job loss.
Funding for this work began in July and will run through September 2016.
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