David Neumark (born July 7, 1959) is an American economist and a Chancellor's Professor of Economics at the University of California, Irvine,[1] where he also directs the Economic Self-Sufficiency Policy Research Institute.
He graduated Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude, with Honors.
His dissertation was entitled Male-Female Differentials in the Labor Force: Measurement, Causes and Probes, and published in parts in the Journal of Human Resources.
Neumark's research interests include minimum wages[4] and living wages, affirmative action, sex differences in labor markets, the nature of labor market discrimination (e.g., taste-based versus statistical discrimination),[5] the economics of aging, and school-to-work programs, and he has also done work in demography, health economics, development, industrial organization, and finance.
The book covers the effects of minimum wages on employment, schooling, training, income inequality, and poverty.