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Upcoming Seminars
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Wednesday, December 2, 2020 - 3:40 pm to 4:40 pm
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Monday, December 7, 2020 - 11:00 am to 12:00 pm
Recent Publications
The Case for Healthy U.S.‐China Agricultural Trade Relations despite Deglobalization Pressures, Zhang, Wendong
Predicting county-scale maize yields with publicly available data, Jiang, Zehui, Liu, Chao, Ganapathysubramanian, Baskar, Hayes, Dermot J., Sarkar, Soumik
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Increases in the minimum wage tend to cause firms to raise wages for those whose wages were initially above the new minimum in order to maintain the former pay hierarchy. The biggest effect is on workers closest to the minimum wage. Th
Florida is putting a minimum wage to a referendum of voters. The proposed minimum wage policy would raise the minimum wage from its current $8.86 to $10.00 per hour effective September 30th, 2021.
Recent Working Papers
Equilibrium Unemployment: The Role Of Discrimination, Cordoba, Juan C., Isojärvi, Anni, Li, Haoran
The Full Recession: Private Versus Social Costs of Covid-19, Cordoba, Juan Carlos, Ripoll, Marla, Yang, Siqiang