Profile
David R. Howell is a professor of economics and public policy at 麻豆传媒色情片 for Social Research. He is an affiliated member of NSSR's Economics department, a Faculty Research Fellow at the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (麻豆传媒色情片), and a Research Scholar at the Political Economy Research Institute (U-Mass Amherst). His research focuses on social policy and labor market outcomes.
Degrees Held
PhD 1982, Economics, 麻豆传媒色情片 for Social Research
Recent Publications
Recent Publications
鈥淚ntroduction鈥, Russell Sage Journal Issue: 鈥淐hanging Job Quality: The Rise of Low-Wage Jobs
and Nonstandard Work Arrangements,鈥 (with Arne Kalleberg), forthcoming.
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鈥淩eframing the Minimum Wage Debate: Why 鈥渘o job loss鈥 is the wrong standard for setting the right
wage floor,鈥 The American Prospect, Summer 2016.
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鈥淎 鈥楲iving Wage鈥? Minimum Wage Policy and Employment in the US and France,鈥 in D. Greenwood
and R. Holt, eds., A Brighter Future: Improving the Standard of Living Now and for the Next
Generation, with Bert Azizoglu and Ana Okatenko (M.E. Sharpe, 2014).
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鈥淭he Austerity of Low Pay: US Exceptionalism in the Age of Inequality,鈥 Social Research, vol. 80,
no. 3 (Fall 2013).
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鈥淯nemployment Benefits and Work Incentives: The US Labour Market in the Great Recession,鈥
Oxford Review of Economic Policy, vol. 27, no. 2, summer 2011 (with Bert Azizoglu).
听Center for American Progress, December 2013. (PDF)
"A 'Living Wage'? Minimum Wage Policy and Employment in the US and France", forthcoming 2014, in Daphne Greenwood and Ric Holt, eds., A Brighter Future: Improving the Standard of Living Now and for the Next Generation (M.E. Sharpe), (with Bert Azizoglu and Anna Okatenko).
听Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Revised October 31, 2012
听forthcoming in Eckhard Hein and Engelbert Stockhammer (eds): A Modern Guide to Keynesian Macroeconomics and Economic Policies (Elgar, 2012). (PDF)
听Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Vol. 27, No. 2, Summer 2011 (with Bert M. Azizoglu). (PDF)
Unemployment and Labor Market Institutions
听forthcoming in Eckhard Hein and Engelbert Stockhammer (eds): A Modern Guide to Keynesian Macroeconomics and Economic Policies (Elgar, 2012). (PDF)
听Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Vol. 27, No. 2, Summer 2011 (with Bert M. Azizoglu). (PDF)
听Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Volume 25, Number 1, 2009, pp.60鈥93 (with Miriam Rehm). (PDF)
听Capitalism and Society" (Vol. 2, Issue 1): 2007, pp. 1-71 (with Dean Baker, Andrew Glyn and John Schmitt). (PDF)
听The American Prospect, May-June 2006 (with John Schmitt). (PDF)
听Challenge, March-April 2006 (with Andrew Glyn and John Schmitt). (PDF)
听(with Friedrich Huebler), Chapter 2 in David R. Howell, ed., Fighting Unemployment: The Limits of Free Market Orthodoxy (New York: Oxford University Press), 2005. (PDF)
听in Jonas Olafsson, ed., "Den Tredje Arbetslingen" (The Third Work Principle), (Sweden: Arenagroup), 2005.
听Oxford University Press, 2005 (editor, author of 2 chapters, co-author of two other chapters).
听International Labour Organization, Working Paper #43 (with Baker, Glyn and Schmitt)
Download available at the SCEPA website.
听(with Dean Baker, Andrew Gyn, and John Schmitt), Chapter 3 in David R. Howell, ed., Fighting Unemployment: The Limits of Free Market Orthodoxy (New York: Oxford University Press), 2005.
Download available at the SCEPA website.
听(with Friedrich Huebler), Chapter 2 in David R. Howell, ed., Fighting Unemployment: The Limits of Free Market Orthodoxy (New York: Oxford University Press), 2005. (PDF)
Labor Market Indicators
听International Review of Applied Economics (with Anna Okatenko), July 2010. (PDF)
听Challenge, January-February 2008, pp 26-44 (with Mamadou Diallo). (PDF)
"The Inadequacy of the Unemployment Rate," Challenge: The Magazine of Economic Affairs, Jan-Feb 2005 (pp. 5-28).
Skills, Institutions, and Earnings Inequality
听Center for American Progress, December 2013. (PDF)
听Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Revised October 31, 2012
听(with Friedrich Huebler), Chapter 2 in David R. Howell, ed., Fighting Unemployment: The Limits of Free Market Orthodoxy (New York: Oxford University Press), 2005.(PDF)
Politics & Society, Vol. 30, No 2, June 2002, pp. 193-243. (PDF)
听in Jim Stanford, Ellen Houston and Lance Taylor, eds., Power, Employment and Accumulation: Social Structures in Economic Theory and Policy, (Armonk: M.E. Sharpe), 2001 (with Ellen Houston and William Milberg). (PDF)
听Review of Radical Political Economics, 31(1), 1999. (PDF)
Eastern Economic Journal, September 1998, with susan Wieler). (PDF)
听The Jerome Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, 1997
听Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development, 1996
Race, Immigration and Urban Labor Markets
听in Globalization and the New City: Migrants, Minorities and Urban Transformations in Comparative Perspective, Malcolm Cross and Robert Moore, eds., (London: Palgrave), 2002 (with Elizabeth Mueller).
"Increasing Opportunities, Declining Pay: Immigrants in the New York Metropolitan Labor Market, 1980-1998," manuscript, 2001 (with Kimberly Gester).
听Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol 26, no. 3: 469-93, July 2000 (with Elizabeth Mueller).
听Economic Development Quarterly, Vol. 12, No.1, February 1998, pp. 88-100 (with Timothy Bates).
听Industrial and Labor Relations Review, April 1995 (with Maury B. Gittleman).