Michael Reich
Professor of Economics

University of California
Department of Economics
580-1 Evans Hall #3880
Berkeley, CA 94720-3880
Tel No. (510) 642-3647

University of California
Institute of Research on Labor and Employment
2521 Channing, #5555
Berkeley, CA 94720-5555
Tel No. (510) 643-7079
Fax No. (510) 642-6432

Curriculum Vitae

Short Biography

Michael Reich is Professor of Economics at the University of California at Berkeley, Director of the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment at UC Berkeley and co-Director of the Miguel Contreras Labor Program at the University of California. Reich has a B.A. in Mathematics from Swarthmore College and a Ph. D. in Economics from Harvard University.

Professor Reich's research publications cover numerous areas of labor economics, including the economics of racial inequality, the analysis of labor market segmentation, historical stages in U.S. labor markets and social structures of accumulation, high performance workplaces, union-management cooperation and Japanese labor-management systems. His current research focuses on dynamic models of low-wage labor markets and on the economics of living wages and minimum wages.

Courses

• Econ 151, Spring 2007

Some Recent Publications

• Work and Pay in the United States and Japan
• Living Wages and Economic Performance in San Francisco
• The Impacts of Living Wage Policies

• Minimum Wage Effects Across State Borders: Estimates Using Contiguous Counties
• The Economic Effects of Citywide Minimum Wages
• Minimum Wages and the California Economy


• Business Costs of Low Wages
• Living Wage Ordinances in California
• Living Wages and Airport Security


• Developing Skills and Pay through Career Ladders: Lessons from Japanese and US Companies
• Complementarity of Pensions and Training Under Multiemployer Plans
• Micro-Macro Linkages in High Performance Employment Systems

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