Re: David Card's response
Phill, I don't know that this is exactly what your looking for but: John Schmitt in Jan. 1996 EPI Briefing paper: "The Minimum wage and Job loss: Opponents of Wage hike find no effect" offers a detailed response to the Neumark and Wascher Critique and others. There is also a later essay by Springgs and Schmidt: The Minimum Wage: Blocking the low wage path" in RECLAIMING PROSPERITY, Ed. Schafer and Faux, M. E. Sharpe 1996. I have encountered the same with a U. of Chicago consulting group report against the Living Wage here. Scmidt notes that the NM data was supplied by an industry group with astake in the outcome (The Employment Policy Institute backed by maufactureres, resturants and retailers) and includes resturants not in the CK original analysis and that indipendent data collected by WN does not bear out their results. Finally they look at hours instead of numbers of jobs. In terms of income workers would still earn much more even if their small decline in hours worked was accurate and most other studies show no statistically significant effect on jobs from moderate wage floor increases. Best, Ron ** Ron Baiman Dept. of Economics Roosevelt UniversityFax: 312-341-3680 430 South Michigan Ave Chicago, Illinois 60605 Voice: 312-341-3694 ** On Thu, 8 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some time ago (a year?) someone posted (Doug?) a response by David Card to the critique that two other economists had given to _Myth and Measurement_. Unfortunately, I did not save the response and now I have need of it to counter claims by a neo-right critique of minimum wages who is claiming that Card and Krueger's work has been discredited. I have tried going back into the Pen-l archives but haven't been able to find it. a. does anyone have it who could e-mail it to me? or b. does anyone remember exactly when it was posted or how I can find it in the Pen-l archives? Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Paul Phillips, Economics, University of Manitoba
Re: David Card's Response
I spoke to David Card yesterday. He like Doug Henwood will be following the well travelled path to Chico. He says that he has a new paper that answers the critique of his work. He feels very confident that his work was correct all along. I mentioned the EPI study Schmitt, John. 1996. "The Minimum Wage and Job Loss: Opponents of Wage Hike Find No Effect." Economic Policy Institute Briefing Paper (January). He said that his results were similar. I will give a reference to the Card paper when I get it. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
David Card's Response
Thanks to all the pen-l-ers who responded to my request, particularly to Bill Lear who posted me Card's response. Paul Paul Phillips, Economics, University of Manitoba
David Card's response
Some time ago (a year?) someone posted (Doug?) a response by David Card to the critique that two other economists had given to _Myth and Measurement_. Unfortunately, I did not save the response and now I have need of it to counter claims by a neo-right critique of minimum wages who is claiming that Card and Krueger's work has been discredited. I have tried going back into the Pen-l archives but haven't been able to find it. a. does anyone have it who could e-mail it to me? or b. does anyone remember exactly when it was posted or how I can find it in the Pen-l archives? Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Paul Phillips, Economics, University of Manitoba
Re: David Card's response
On Thu, January 8, 1998 at 14:19 (CST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Some time ago (a year?) someone posted (Doug?) a response by David Card to the critique that two other economists had given to _Myth and Measurement_. Unfortunately, I did not save the response and now I have need of it to counter claims by a neo-right critique of minimum wages who is claiming that Card and Krueger's work has been discredited. Doug Henwood posted Card's response on Sat, 4 May 1996 for those who are curious. I have tried going back into the Pen-l archives but haven't been able to find it. a. does anyone have it who could e-mail it to me? or b. does anyone remember exactly when it was posted or how I can find it in the Pen-l archives? Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've sent Paul a copy directly. Bill
