$39,000
From economic growth to decent jobs and middle class prosperity? Post-1979 U.S. employment performance in international perspective
2014
Grantees: David Howell (opens in a new tab)
David R. Howell is a professor of economics and public policy and directs the doctoral program in public and urban policy at The New School.
He is an affiliated member of the New School’s economics department, a faculty research fellow at the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (The New School), and a research scholar at the Political Economy Research Institute (University of Massachusetts Amherst). His research focuses on institutions and labor market outcomes.
Funded Research
Authored by David Howell
Policy
The employment effects of a much higher U.S. federal minimum wage: Lessons from other rich countries (opens in a new tab)
Issue Briefs JUL 28, 2016
By: David Howell
Household Economic Security
Labor, Wages & Worker Power
Policy
The misplaced debate about job loss and a $15 minimum wage (opens in a new tab)
Blog JUL 6, 2016
By: David Howell
Economic Equity & Opportunity
Household Economic Security
Labor, Wages & Worker Power
Policy
The links between institutions and shared growth (opens in a new tab)
Blog FEB 25, 2015
By: David Howell
Economic Equity & Opportunity
Labor, Wages & Worker Power
Media Mentions
Declining Job Quality in the United States: Explanations and Evidence (opens in a new tab)
In the News SEP 3, 2019
Media Mention in:
The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
What’s the Right Minimum Wage? (opens in a new tab)
In the News APR 3, 2016
Media Mention in:
The American Prospect
David Howell’s Working Papers
Academic
How Exceptional is American Job Quality? Decent- and Poverty-Pay Rates by Age, Gender, and Education in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, and France* (opens in a new tab)
Working Papers SEP 3, 2021
By: David R. Howell
Economic Equity & Opportunity
Household Economic Security
Labor, Wages & Worker Power
Academic
Low Pay in Rich Countries: Institutions, Bargaining Power, and Earnings Inequality in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia and France (opens in a new tab)
Working Papers SEP 3, 2021
By: David R. Howell
Labor, Wages & Worker Power
Academic
From Decent to Lousy Jobs: New Evidence on the Decline in American Job Quality, 1979-2017 (opens in a new tab)
Working Papers AUG 30, 2019
By: David R. Howell
Economic Equity & Opportunity
Labor, Wages & Worker Power
Academic
What’s the right minimum wage? Reframing the debate from ‘no job loss’ to a ‘minimum living wage’ (opens in a new tab)
Working Papers JUN 16, 2016
By: David Howell, Kea Fiedler, Stephanie Luce
Labor, Wages & Worker Power
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