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When Mandates Work

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Clair Brown

Offshoring and outsourcing a mixed bag for American jobs, wages

Report in UC Berkeley Newscenter, February 18, 2014 »

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Chancellor Dirks Honored at IRLE Reception

November 22, 2013 »

Research Highlights

report cover The Effects of Minimum Wages on SNAP Enrollments and Expenditures
Rachel West and Michael Reich
March 2014

report cover Comments by Michael Reich on the Congressional Budget Office report, The Effects of a Minimum-Wage Increase...
February 18, 2014

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Publication Highlights

Minimum Wage Shocks, Employment Flows and Labor Market Frictions
Arindrajit Dube, T. William Lester and Michael Reich
Working Paper No. 149-13
July 2013

The Labor Market Four Years Into the Crisis: Assessing Structural Explanations
Jesse Rothstein
Working Paper No. 120-12
March 2012

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IRLE in the News

The White House | March 26, 2014
NEW WHITE HOUSE REPORT: The Impact of Raising the Minimum Wage on Women and the Importance of Ensuring a Robust Tipped Minimum Wage

New York Times | March 12, 2014
All Economics Is Local

San Jose Mercury News | March 18, 2014
Richmond council moves forward on $12.30-per-hour minimum wage

San Francisco Chronicle | March 16, 2014
Thumbs-up for $15-an-hour minimum wage in new S.F. poll

The Washington Post | March 4, 2014
Report: Minimum wage hike would cut food stamp spending by $4.6 billion a year

Chicago Tribune | March 3, 2014
The argument for increasing minimum wage

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