Wages, School Quality, and Employment Demand

Card, David/ Krueger, Alan B./ Akee, Randall K. q. (Editor)/ Zimmermann, Klaus F. (Editor)

ISBN 10: 019877995X / ISBN 13: 9780198779957

Published by Oxford Univ Pr, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Wages, School Quality, and Employment Demand
• Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 019877995X
• ISBN 13: 9780198779957
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.41 kilograms

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Synopsis

David Card and Alan B. Krueger received the IZA Prize in Labor Economics in 2006 for their outstanding contributions to the field. This volume provides an overview of their most important work on school quality, differences in wages across groups in the U.S., and the effect of changes in the minimum wage on employment and wage setting.

About the Author

David Card is Faculty Research Associate in the National Bureau of Economic Research. He received his B.A. in 1978 at Queen's University (Kingston) and his Ph.D. at Princeton University in 1983. From 1988 to 1992 he was Associate Editor of the Journal of Labor Economics and from 1993 to 1997 co-editor of Econometrica.

Since 1987 Alan B. Kruger has held a joint appointment in the Economics Department and Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton. He is also the Founding Director of the Princeton University Survey Research Center and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Krueger has published widely on the economics of education, income dispersion, technological change, labor demand, social insurance, health economics, and environmental economics.