Profile
David R. Howell is a professor of economics and public policy at The New School for Social Research. He is an affiliated member of NSSR's Economics department, a Faculty Research Fellow at the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (The New School), and a Research Scholar at the Political Economy Research Institute (U-Mass Amherst). His research focuses on social policy and labor market outcomes.
Degrees Held
PhD 1982, Economics, New School for Social Research
Recent Publications
Recent Publications
“Introduction”, Russell Sage Journal Issue: “Changing Job Quality: The Rise of Low-Wage Jobs
and Nonstandard Work Arrangements,” (with Arne Kalleberg), forthcoming.
“Reframing the Minimum Wage Debate: Why “no job loss” is the wrong standard for setting the right
wage floor,” The American Prospect, Summer 2016.
“A ‘Living Wage’? Minimum Wage Policy and Employment in the US and France,” in D. Greenwood
and R. Holt, eds., A Brighter Future: Improving the Standard of Living Now and for the Next
Generation, with Bert Azizoglu and Ana Okatenko (M.E. Sharpe, 2014).
“The Austerity of Low Pay: US Exceptionalism in the Age of Inequality,” Social Research, vol. 80,
no. 3 (Fall 2013).
“Unemployment Benefits and Work Incentives: The US Labour Market in the Great Recession,”
Oxford Review of Economic Policy, vol. 27, no. 2, summer 2011 (with Bert Azizoglu).
Center for American Progress, December 2013. (PDF)
"A 'Living Wage'? Minimum Wage Policy and Employment in the US and France", forthcoming 2014, in Daphne Greenwood and Ric Holt, eds., A Brighter Future: Improving the Standard of Living Now and for the Next Generation (M.E. Sharpe), (with Bert Azizoglu and Anna Okatenko).
Political Economy Research Institute, ɫ of Massachusetts Amherst, Revised October 31, 2012
forthcoming in Eckhard Hein and Engelbert Stockhammer (eds): A Modern Guide to Keynesian Macroeconomics and Economic Policies (Elgar, 2012). (PDF)
Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Vol. 27, No. 2, Summer 2011 (with Bert M. Azizoglu). (PDF)
Unemployment and Labor Market Institutions
forthcoming in Eckhard Hein and Engelbert Stockhammer (eds): A Modern Guide to Keynesian Macroeconomics and Economic Policies (Elgar, 2012). (PDF)
Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Vol. 27, No. 2, Summer 2011 (with Bert M. Azizoglu). (PDF)
Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Volume 25, Number 1, 2009, pp.60–93 (with Miriam Rehm). (PDF)
Capitalism and Society" (Vol. 2, Issue 1): 2007, pp. 1-71 (with Dean Baker, Andrew Glyn and John Schmitt). (PDF)
The American Prospect, May-June 2006 (with John Schmitt). (PDF)
Challenge, March-April 2006 (with Andrew Glyn and John Schmitt). (PDF)
(with Friedrich Huebler), Chapter 2 in David R. Howell, ed., Fighting Unemployment: The Limits of Free Market Orthodoxy (New York: Oxford ɫ Press), 2005. (PDF)
in Jonas Olafsson, ed., "Den Tredje Arbetslingen" (The Third Work Principle), (Sweden: Arenagroup), 2005.
Oxford ɫ Press, 2005 (editor, author of 2 chapters, co-author of two other chapters).
International Labour Organization, Working Paper #43 (with Baker, Glyn and Schmitt)
Download available at the SCEPA website.
(with Dean Baker, Andrew Gyn, and John Schmitt), Chapter 3 in David R. Howell, ed., Fighting Unemployment: The Limits of Free Market Orthodoxy (New York: Oxford ɫ Press), 2005.
Download available at the SCEPA website.
(with Friedrich Huebler), Chapter 2 in David R. Howell, ed., Fighting Unemployment: The Limits of Free Market Orthodoxy (New York: Oxford ɫ Press), 2005. (PDF)
Labor Market Indicators
International Review of Applied Economics (with Anna Okatenko), July 2010. (PDF)
Challenge, January-February 2008, pp 26-44 (with Mamadou Diallo). (PDF)
"The Inadequacy of the Unemployment Rate," Challenge: The Magazine of Economic Affairs, Jan-Feb 2005 (pp. 5-28).
Skills, Institutions, and Earnings Inequality
Center for American Progress, December 2013. (PDF)
Political Economy Research Institute, ɫ of Massachusetts Amherst, Revised October 31, 2012
(with Friedrich Huebler), Chapter 2 in David R. Howell, ed., Fighting Unemployment: The Limits of Free Market Orthodoxy (New York: Oxford ɫ Press), 2005.(PDF)
Politics & Society, Vol. 30, No 2, June 2002, pp. 193-243. (PDF)
in Jim Stanford, Ellen Houston and Lance Taylor, eds., Power, Employment and Accumulation: Social Structures in Economic Theory and Policy, (Armonk: M.E. Sharpe), 2001 (with Ellen Houston and William Milberg). (PDF)
Review of Radical Political Economics, 31(1), 1999. (PDF)
Eastern Economic Journal, September 1998, with susan Wieler). (PDF)
The Jerome Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, 1997
Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development, 1996
Race, Immigration and Urban Labor Markets
in Globalization and the New City: Migrants, Minorities and Urban Transformations in Comparative Perspective, Malcolm Cross and Robert Moore, eds., (London: Palgrave), 2002 (with Elizabeth Mueller).
"Increasing Opportunities, Declining Pay: Immigrants in the New York Metropolitan Labor Market, 1980-1998," manuscript, 2001 (with Kimberly Gester).
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol 26, no. 3: 469-93, July 2000 (with Elizabeth Mueller).
Economic Development Quarterly, Vol. 12, No.1, February 1998, pp. 88-100 (with Timothy Bates).
Industrial and Labor Relations Review, April 1995 (with Maury B. Gittleman).