David Neumark

 

 

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New and recent work:

Myth or Measurement: What Does the New Minimum Wage Research Say about Minimum Wages and Job Loss in the United States? David Neumark and Peter Shirley (NBER Working Paper). Description: floppy

 

Do State Earned Income Tax Credits Increase Participation in the Federal EITC? David Neumark and Katherine Williams (Public Finance Review, forthcoming). Description: floppy Description: floppy

Relative Sizes of Age Cohorts and Labor Force Participation of Older Workers. David Neumark and Maysen Yen (Demography, 2019, Vol. 57, pp. 1-31). Description: floppy

Labor Market Networks and Recovery from Mass Layoffs: Evidence from the Great Recession Period. Judith K. Hellerstein, Mark Kutzbach, and David Neumark (Journal of Urban Economics, 2019, Vol. 113). Description: floppy

Enterprise Zones and Poverty: Resolving Conflicting Evidence. David Neumark and Timothy Young (Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2019, Vol. 78). (For data and code click on Datasets and Code tab.) Description: floppy

Do State Laws Protecting Older Workers from Discrimination Reduce Age Discrimination in Hiring? David Neumark, Ian Burn, Patrick Button, and Nanneh Chehras (Journal of Law and Economics, 2019, Vol. 62, pp. 373-402). Description: floppy

The Econometrics and Economics of the Employment Effects of the Minimum Wage: Getting from Known Unknowns to Known Knowns. David Neumark (German Economic Review, 2019, Vol. 56, pp. 799-866). Description: floppy

Is It Harder for Older Workers to Find Jobs? New and Improved Evidence from a Field Experiment. David Neumark, Ian Burn, and Patrick Button (Journal of Political Economy, 2019, Vol. 127, pp. 922-970). Description: floppy

Do Field Experiments on Labor and Housing Markets Overstate Discrimination? A Re-examination of the Evidence. David Neumark and Judith Rich. (ILR Review, 2019, Vol. 72, pp. 223-252). Description: floppy

Experimental Research on Labor Market Discrimination. David Neumark (Journal of Economic Literature, 2018, Vol. 56, pp. 799-866). Description: floppy

People Versus Machines: The Impact of Minimum Wages on Automatable Jobs. Grace Lordan and David Neumark (Labour Economics, 2018, Vol. 52, pp. 40-53).Description: floppy

Barriers to Later Retirement for Men: Physical Challenges at Work and Increases in the Full Retirement Age. Joanne Song McLaughlin and David Neumark (Research on Aging, Vol. 40, pp. 232-56).Description: floppy

Does Eliminating the Earnings Test Increase Old-Age Poverty of Women? Theodore Figinski and David Neumark (Research on Aging, Vol. 40, pp. 27-53). Description: floppy

The Employment Effects of State Hiring Credits. David Neumark and Diego Grijalva (ILR Review, 2017, Vol. 70, pp. 1111-45).Description: floppy

Data and code for The Employment Effects of State Hiring Credits.Description: floppy

 

Small Cash Incentives Can Encourage Primary Care Visits by Low-Income People with New Health Care Coverage. Cathy J. Bradley and David Neumark (Health Affairs, 2017, Vol. 36, pp. 1376-84). Description: floppy

 

Reply to Credible Research Designs for Minimum Wage Studies. David Neumark and William Wascher (ILR Review, 2017, Vol. 70, pp. 593-609).Description: floppy

 

Does Protecting Older Workers from Discrimination Make It Harder to Get Hired?  Evidence from Disability Discrimination Laws. David Neumark, Joanne Song, and Patrick Button (Research on Aging, Vol. 39, pp. 29-63).Description: floppy

Experimental Age Discrimination Evidence and the Heckman Critique. David Neumark, Ian Burn, and Patrick Button (American Economic Review Papers & Proceedings, 2016, Vol. 106, pp. 303-308). (Data and code at https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.p20161008.) Description: floppy

 

Policy Levers to Increase Jobs from Income and Work after the Great Recession. David Neumark (IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2016, Vol. 5, No. 6, on-line). Description: floppy

 

The Business Climate and Economic Inequality. David Neumark and Jennifer Muz (Review of Income and Wealth, 2016, Vol. 1, pp. 161-180). Description: floppy

 

Work Continuation while Treated for Breast Cancer: The Role of Workplace Accommodations. David Neumark, Cathy J. Bradley, Miguel Henry, and Bassam Dahman (Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2015, Vol. 68, pp. 916-954). Description: floppy

 

Place-Based Policies. David Neumark and Helen Simpson (In Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, Vol. 5, 2015, Gilles Duranton, J. Vernon Henderson, and William C. Strange, Eds. (Amsterdam: Elsevier), pp. 1197-1287.) Description: floppy

 

More On Recent Evidence on the Effects of Minimum Wages in the United States. David Neumark, J.M. Ian Salas, and William Wascher (IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2014, Vol. 3, No. 24, on-line). Description: floppy(Data and code available at: https://sites.google.com/site/jmisalas/data-and-code.)

 

Employment Effects of Minimum Wages. David Neumark (IZA World of Labor). Description: floppy

Did Age Discrimination Protections Help Older Workers Weather the Great Recession? David Neumark and Patrick Button (Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2014, Vol. 33, pp. 566-601). Description: floppy

Beaches, Sunshine, and Public Sector Pay: Theory and Evidence on Amenities and Rent Extraction by Government Worker. Jan Brueckner and David Neumark (American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2014, Vol. 6, pp. 198-230). Description: floppy

Do Labor Market Networks Have an Important Spatial Dimension? Judith K. Hellerstein, Mark J. Kutzbach, and David Neumark (Journal of Urban Economics, 2014, Vol. 79, pp. 39-58). Description: floppy

Fiscal Zoning and Sales Taxes: Do Higher Sales Taxes Lead to More Retailing and Less Manufacturing? Daria Burnes, David Neumark, and Michelle White (National Tax Journal, Vol. 67, pp. 7-50).Description: floppy

 

Revisiting the Minimum Wage-Employment Debate: Throwing Out the Baby with the Bathwater? David Neumark, J. M. Ian Salas, and William Wascher (Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2014, Vol. 67, pp. 608-648). Description: floppy(Data and code available at: https://sites.google.com/site/jmisalas/data-and-code.)

 

Do Stronger Age Discrimination Laws Make Social Security Reforms More Effective? David Neumark and Joanne Song (Journal of Public Economics, 2013, Vol. 108, pp. 1-16). Description: floppy

Spurring Job Creation in Response to Severe Recessions: Reconsidering Hiring Credits David Neumark (Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2013, Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 142-71). Description: floppy

Simulating the Economic Impacts of Living Wage Mandates Using New Public and Administrative Data: Evidence for New York City. David Neumark, et al. (Economic Development Quarterly, 2013, Vol. 27, pp. 271-283). Description: floppy

Future Skill Shortages in the U.S. Economy? David Neumark, Hans Johnson, and Marisol Cuellar Mejia (Economics of Education Review, 2013, Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 151-67). Description: floppy

Does Employer-Provided Health Insurance Constrain Labor Supply Adjustments to Health Shocks? New Evidence on Women Diagnosed with Breast Cancer. Cathy J. Bradley, David Neumark, and Scott Barkowski. (Journal of Health Economics, Vol. 32, pp. 833-49).Description: floppy

What Do Business Climate Indexes Teach Us About State Policy and Growth? Jed Kolko, David Neumark, and Marisol Cuellar Mejia. (Journal of Regional Science, Vol. 53, pp. 220-55).Description: floppy

Detecting Discrimination in Audit and Correspondence Studies. David Neumark (Journal of Human Resources, 2012, Vol. 47, No. 4, pp. 1128-57). Description: floppy

The Effects of Living Wage Laws on Low-Wage Workers and Low-Income Families: What Do We Know Now? David Neumark, Matthew Thompson, and Leslie Koyle  (IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2012, Vol. 1, No. 1, on-line). Description: floppy

The Effects of Health Shocks on Employment and Health Insurance: the Role of Employer-Provided Health Insurance. Cathy J. Bradley, David Neumark, and Meryl Motika  (International Journal  of Health Care Finance and Economics, 2012, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 253-67). Description: floppy

Immigration and Product Diversity. Francesca Mazzolari and David Neumark (Journal of Population Economics, 2012, Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 1107-1137). Description: floppy

Does a Higher Minimum Wage Enhance the Effectiveness of the Earned Income Tax Credit? David Neumark and William Wascher (Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2011, Vol. 64, No. 4, pp. 712-746). Description: floppy

Do Small Businesses Create More Jobs? New Evidence for the United States from the National Establishment Time Series. David Neumark, Brandon Wall, Junfu Zhang (Review of Economics and Statistics, 2011, Vol. 93, No. 1, pp. 16-29). Description: floppy

Do Enterprise Zones Create Jobs? Evidence from California’s Enterprise Zone Program. David Neumark and Jed Kolko (Journal of Urban Economics, 2010, Vol. 68, No. 1, pp. 1-29). Description: floppy

Is Marriage Always Good for Children? Evidence from Families Affected by Incarceration. Keith Finlay and David Neumark (Journal of Human Resources, 2010, Vol. 45, No. 4, pp. 1046-1088). Description: floppy

Do Some Enterprise Zones Create Jobs? Jed Kolko and David Neumark (Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2010, Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 5-38). Description: floppy(Extensions and re-estimations for this paper Description: floppy)

Does Local Ownership Insulate Cities from Economic Shocks? Jed Kolko and David Neumark (Journal of Urban Economics, 2010, Vol. 67, No. 1, pp. 103-115). Description: floppy

Alternative Labor Market Policies to Increase Economic Self-Sufficiency: Mandating Higher Wages, Subsidizing Employment, and Raising Productivity. David Neumark (In Making the Work-Based Safety Net Work Better, 2009, Carolyn J. Heinrich and John Karl Scholz, Eds. (New York: Russell Sage Foundation), pp. 25-78.) Description: floppy

 

Minimum Wages, David Neumark and William Wascher, 2008, MIT Press (available at http://www.amazon.com/Minimum-Wages-David-Neumark/dp/0262141027).

Workplace Segregation in the United States: Race, Ethnicity, and Skill. Judith Hellerstein and David Neumark (Review of Economics and Statistics, 2008, Vol. 90, No. 3, pp. 459-477). Description: floppy

The Effects of Wal-Mart on Local Labor Markets. David Neumark, Junfu Zhang, and Stephen Ciccarella (Journal of Urban Economics, 2008, Vol. 63, No. 2, pp. 405-430). Description: floppy

The Age Discrimination in Employment Act and the Challenge of Population Aging. David Neumark (Research on Aging, 2008, Vol. 31, pp. 41-68). Description: floppy

Differences in Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment: Experiences of Insured and Uninsured Patients in a Safety Net Setting. Cathy J. Bradley, David Neumark, Lisa M. Shickle, and Nicholas Farrell (Inquiry, 2008, Vol. 45, No. 3, pp. 323–339).Description: floppy

Spatial Mismatch or Racial Mismatch? Judith K. Hellerstein, David Neumark, and Melissa McInerney (Journal of Urban Economics, 2008, Volume 64, Issue 2, Pages 464-479) Description: floppy

Minimum Wages and Employment. David Neumark and William Wascher, (Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics, 2007, Vol. 3, Nos. 1-2, pp. 1-182). Description: floppy

Encouraging Education in an Urban School District: Evidence from the Philadelphia Educational Longitudinal Study. Frank Furstenberg and David Neumark (Education Economics, 2007, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 135-57). Description: floppy

Employment Dynamics and Business Relocation: New Evidence from the National Longitudinal Establishment Time Series. David Neumark, Junfu Zhang, and Brandon Wall (Research in Labor Economics, 2007, Vol. 26, pp. 39-83). Description: floppy

Employment-Contingent Health Insurance, Illness, and Labor Supply of Women: Evidence from Married Women with Breast Cancer. Cathy J. Bradley, David Neumark, Zhehui Luo, and Heather L. Bednarek (Health Economics, 2007, Vol. 16, pp. 719-37) Description: floppy

Selected earlier work:

Age Discrimination Laws and Labor Market Efficiency. David Neumark and Wendy A. Stock (Journal of Political Economy, 1999, Vol. 107, pp. 1081-1125). Description: floppy

Welfare for the Elderly: The Effects of SSI on Pre-Retirement Labor Supply. David Neumark and Elizabeth Powers (Journal of Public Economics, 2000, Vol. 78, pp. 51-80).Description: floppy

 

Age Discrimination Legislation in the United States. David Neumark (Contemporary Economic Policy, 2003, Vol. 21, pp. 297-317).Description: floppy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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