It also regularly analyzes job market data in the United States[10][11] Typically, studies are contracted by university economists and published under its name.
It weighed in when David Card and Alan Krueger concluded that a 1992 minimum wage hike in New Jersey did not decrease employment in the state.
[15] Critics of the analysis, including The Employment Policies Institute,[16] noted that because Card and Krueger's research was based on informal headcounts acquired through telephone surveys, it could not be easily replicated.
In 2000, Card and Krueger redid their study using a data set from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and reproduced their earlier conclusions.
[21] Michael Saltsman has been identified on a number of occasions as The Employment Policies Institute research director.