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Antonio Rodriguez-Lopez

Antonio Rodriguez-Lopez is an associate professor of economics at UC Irvine and a research affiliate of CESifo. He earned his Ph.D. in economics from UC Berkeley. His research focuses on international trade, macroeconomics, and labor markets, with recent work examining liquidity and trade, monopsonistic labor markets, and the effects of trade on jobs in the U.S. and China.
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Accounting for City Size, Minimum Wages Reduce Jobs Almost Everywhere

Priyaranjan Jha
In new research, Priyaranjan Jha, Jyotsana Kala, David Neumark, and Antonio Rodriguez-Lopez find that studies arguing higher minimum wages have no employment effect—or even a positive effect—in many labor markets fail to account for how much less minimum wages matter in larger, higher-wage cities.

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