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Priyaranjan Jha

Priyaranjan Jha is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Irvine, and a Fellow of the CESifo Network. His research focuses on international trade, economic development, and labor markets, with particular attention to how globalization affects employment, inequality, and growth. He has published widely in journals including the Economic Journal, European Economic Review, Journal of Development, Journal of International Economics, and Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics. He is also a co-editor of the Elgar Encyclopedia of International Trade which is forthcoming. He serves as Co-Editor of the Indian Growth and Development Review and as Associate Editor of the Journal of Development Economics.
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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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