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David Neumark

David Neumark is Distinguished Professor of Economics and Co-Director of the Center for Population, Inequality, and Policy at University of California Irvine. He has previously held positions at the Federal Reserve Board, the University of Pennsylvania, Michigan State University, and the Public Policy Institute of California, and he is currently a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution. He has been a co-editor of the Journal of Urban Economics, an editor of the IZA Journal of Labor Policy, and has served on the editorial board of numerous journals.
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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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