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Effects of the new wave of minimum wage policies
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Michael Reich is professor of economics and chair of the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics at the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment of the University of California, Berkeley. He served as director of IRLE from 2004 to 2015.
His research publications cover numerous areas of labor economics and political economy, including the economics of racial inequality, the analysis of labor market segmentation, historical stages in U.S. labor markets and social structures of accumulation, high performance workplaces, union-management cooperation, Japanese labor-management systems, living wages, and minimum wages. Reich received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.
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Policy
New research finds $15 minimum wages raise pay and increase employment for low-wage workers (opens in a new tab)
Blog OCT 16, 2023
By: Michael Reich, Justin Wiltshire, Carl McPherson
Labor, Wages & Worker Power
Michael Reich’s Working Papers
Academic
Minimum wage effects and monopsony explanations (opens in a new tab)
Working Papers OCT 16, 2023
By: Justin Wiltshire, Carl McPherson, Michael Reich, Denis Sosinskiy
Labor, Wages & Worker Power
Academic
Credible research designs for minimum wage studies (opens in a new tab)
Working Papers AUG 17, 2016
By: Sylvia Allegretto, Arindrajit Dube, Michael Reich, Ben Zipperer
Labor, Wages & Worker Power
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