Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics

Founded in 2007, the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics (CWED) is nationally recognized for its trailblazing research on the impact of minimum and subminimum wage policies, as well as the effects of the Great Recession, public sector workers, low-wage labor markets, teacher pay, and the gig economy.

“CWED has accumulated an impressive body of sound empirical work on the minimum wage and other topics. It is not surprising that the CWED researchers are often consulted by policymakers on Capitol Hill and elsewhere.”

Lawrence Mishel, Economic Policy Institute

Minimum Wage Impacts

CWED’s corpus of policy briefs, reports and academic research has greatly influenced the widespread public and academic debates about the future of U.S. minimum wage policy. The national media closely follows the release of IRLE publications and is quick to seek the opinions of many of our experts.

Gig Economy Research

CWED’s research is informing and shaping public debates about labor policies across the country affecting workers in the so-called gig economy. Influential recent reports from CWED and the Labor Center find that misclassification allows app companies to pay workers less than the minimum wage.

CWED In the News

“The [CWED] team builds on a tradition of headline-making, mind-changing research dating to the work of David Card, now of Berkeley, and the late Alan Krueger, in the 1990s.”

–Andrew Van Damm, Washington Post