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Session 11: Labor Market Dynamics
The panelists, both authors of recent books on the labor market, will discuss globalization and minimum wage, among other issues.
Links of Interest
Steven Davis home page at the University of Chicago
Presentations
Steven Davis : Employment Security Trends
Speakers
Catherine Mann
Professor of Economics
Brandeis University
and Senior Fellow
Peterson Institute of International Economics, moderator
Jared Bernstein
Director of Living Standards Program
Economic Policy Institute
Jared Bernstein joined the Economic Policy Institute in 1992. He is the author of the new book, "All Together Now: Common Sense for a Fair Economy." His areas of research include income inequality and mobility, trends in employment and earnings, low-wage labor markets and poverty, international comparisons, and the analysis of federal and state economic policies. Between 1995 and 1996, he held the post of deputy chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor. He is the co-author of eight editions of the book The State of Working America and has published extensively in popular and academic venues, including The New York Times, Washington Post, American Prospect, and Research in Economics and Statistics.
Steven J. Davis
Visiting Scholar
AEI
Steven J. Davis is a Vice President with CRA International and the William H. Abbott Professor of International Business and Economics at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business (on leave in 2007), where he has taught since 1986. He is also a Research Associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Visiting Scholar with the American Enterprise Institute, a former visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a former Hoover Institution National Fellow at Stanford University.
Dr. Davis has published widely on employment and wage behavior, worker mobility, job loss, the effects of labor market institutions, business dynamics, industrial organization, economic fluctuations, and other topics. His research appears in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Quarterly Journal of Economics and other leading scholarly journals. He is the recipient of numerous research grants, including several from the U.S. National Science Foundation. He is the author, along with John C. Haltiwanger and Scott Schuh, of Job Creation and Destruction
Davis also has experience in commercial consulting activities. In the antitrust area, he has testified and consulted on price discrimination, exclusionary practices and collusive behavior. In the areas of mortgage lending and consumer finance, he has testified on class certification, liability and damages. He has also offered testimony and analysis on damages in breach of contract, reasonable royalties and lost earnings. Previous consulting engagements include mattes involving auto leasing, energy shocks, commercial lending, pharmaceuticals, savings institutions, software markets, sub-prime lending and workers’ compensation insurance.
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