Michael Reich
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 266177 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Michael Reich |
| NOMBRES | Michael |
| APELLIDO | Reich |
| FIRMA | REICH M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1553-0296 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1972 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Minimum Wage Effects and Monopsony Explanations
Are Minimum Wage Effects Greater in Low‐Wage Areas
Empirical work on the minimum wage typically estimates effects averaged across high‐ and low‐wage areas. Low‐wage labor markets could potentially be less able to absorb minimum wage increases, in turn leading to more negative employment effects. In this article, we examine minimum wage effects in low‐wage counties, where relative minimum wage ratios reach as high as 0.82, well beyond the state‐based ratios in extant studies. Using data from the A…
Counterpoint to Michael Strain
Toxic Politics
A comparative look at the politics of chemical disasters, with a focus on the victims and their struggles for redress, this book takes a searching look at a major and continuing environmental and social problem of our time
Biodiversity modelling in practice - predicting bird and woody plant species richness on farmlands
In light of decreasing species richness on farmland and an increasing awareness of biodiversity issues among customers and food companies, concepts and models to evaluate and enhance farmland biodiversity are greatly needed. It is important that the models are easy to apply as they have to be utilized by practitioners such as farmers and their consultants. In this study, simple but valid predictors were identified to rapidly assess the species ri…
Are Local Minimum Wages Absorbed by Price Increases? Estimates from Internet-Based Restaurant Menus
The authors analyze 884 Internet-based restaurant menus from inside and outside San Jose, California, which they collected before and after the city implemented a 25% minimum wage increase in 2013. Their findings suggest that nearly all of the cost increase was passed through to consumers, as prices rose 1.45% on average. Minimum wage price elasticities averaged 0.058 for all restaurants and ranged from 0.044 to 0.109, depending on the type of re…
Credible Research Designs for Minimum Wage Studies
The authors assess the critique by Neumark, Salas, and Wascher (2014) of minimum wage studies that found small effects on teen employment. Data from 1979 to 2014 contradict NSW; the authors show that the disemployment suggested by a model assuming parallel trends across U.S. states mostly reflects differential pre-existing trends. A data-driven LASSO procedure that optimally corrects for state trends produces a small employment elasticity (-0.01)…
When Mandates Work
Starting in the 1990s, San Francisco launched a series of bold but relatively unknown public policy experiments to improve wages and benefits for thousands of local workers. Since then, scholars have documented the effects of those policies on compensation, productivity, job creation, and health coverage. Opponents predicted a range of negative impacts, but the evidence tells a decidedly different tale. This book brings together that evidence for…
Introduction
Since the 1994 publication of our volume, Social Structures of Accumulation: The Political Economy of Growth and Crisis (Kotz et al. 1994), social structure of accumulation (SSA) theory has continued to inspire a substantial outpouring of articles and books in a variety of disciplines. The purpose of this new volume is to provide a definitive account of the state of SSA theory and its applications today, 30 years after SSA theory first emerged, a…
Contemporary Capitalism and its Crises
This volume analyses contemporary capitalism and its crises based on a theory of capitalist evolution known as the social structure of accumulation (SSA) theory. It applies this theory to explain the severe financial and economic crisis that broke out in 2008 and the kind of changes required to resolve it. The editors and contributors make available new work within this school of thought on such issues as the rise and persistence of the 'neoliber…
Minimum Wage Effects Across State Borders
We use policy discontinuities at state borders to identify the effects of minimum wages on earnings and employment in restaurants and other low-wage sectors. Our approach generalizes the case study method by considering all local differences in minimum wage policies between 1990 and 2006. We compare all contiguous county pairs in the United States that straddle a state border and find no adverse employment effects. We show that traditional approa…
Social Structures of Accumulation
The Economic Effects of a Citywide Minimum Wage
This paper presents the first study of the economic effects of a citywide minimum wage-San Francisco's adoption of an indexed minimum wage, set at $8.50 in 2004 and $9.14 by 2007. Compared to earlier benchmark studies by Card and Krueger and by Neumark and Wascher, this study surveys table-service as well as fast-food restaurants, includes more control groups, and collects data for more outcomes. The authors find that the policy increased worker …
Work and Pay in the United States and Japan
Work and Pay in the United States and Japan
Social Structures of Accumulation
Social Structures of Accumulation
The social structure of accumulation (SSA) approach seeks to explain the long-term fortunes of capitalist economies in terms of the effect of political and economic institutions on growth rates. This book offers an ideal introduction to this powerful tool for understanding capitalist growth, analysing the social and economic differences between countries and the reasons for the successes and failures of institutional reform. The contributors cove…
How social structures of accumulation decline and are built
The social structure of accumulation (SSA) approach offers a theoretical and historical account of the long-run dynamics of institutional change and economic growth in US capitalism. As initially formulated, the SSA comprises the economic, social, and political institutions that constitute the environment within which the capital accumulations process operates (Gordon et al., 1982). The institutions that make up an SSA undergo a life-cycle that i…
Long swings and stages of capitalism
Capitalism can be defined as a wage-labour system of commodity production for profit. The owners of the means of production (capitalists) employ immediate producers (workers). Employers pay workers wages, keeping the fruits of the labour process for vending on the market at a profit (or loss).
Revision of the Italian psychiatric reform
The Capitalist System
Segmented Work, Divided Workers
Labor Historians, Labor Economics, and the Question of Synthesis
Journal Article Review Essay/Labor Historians, Labor Economics, and the Question of Synthesis Get access Ronald W. Schatz Ronald W. Schatz assistant professor of history Wesleyan University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 71, Issue 1, June 1984, Pages 93–100, https://doi.org/10.2307/1899835 Published: 01 June 1984
Homogeiniza, Divide y Manda
o y lo concreto. El resultado es una aparente estructura clara de sus argumentos que, sin embargo, se obstruye al ser estos examinados detenidamente. La «interaccion» de conceptos permite que material de niveles de analisis muy diferentes se combine de forma mas o menos ambitraria. Reiteramos que nada de esto pretende condenar los ejercicios de sintesis; sin embargo, la logica de la teoria de alcance intermedio fuerza a los autores a intentar reu…
Segmented Work, Divided Workers
The Economic Effects of a Citywide Minimum Wage
This paper presents the first study of the economic effects of a citywide minimum wage-San Francisco's adoption of an indexed minimum wage, set at $8.50 in 2004 and $9.14 by 2007. Compared to earlier benchmark studies by Card and Krueger and by Neumark and Wascher, this study surveys table-service as well as fast-food restaurants, includes more control groups, and collects data for more outcomes. The authors find that the policy increased worker …
Credible Research Designs for Minimum Wage Studies
The authors assess the critique by Neumark, Salas, and Wascher (2014) of minimum wage studies that found small effects on teen employment. Data from 1979 to 2014 contradict NSW; the authors show that the disemployment suggested by a model assuming parallel trends across U.S. states mostly reflects differential pre-existing trends. A data-driven LASSO procedure that optimally corrects for state trends produces a small employment elasticity (-0.01)…
Island of Dreams. Environmental Crisis in Japan
Are Local Minimum Wages Absorbed by Price Increases? Estimates from Internet-Based Restaurant Menus
The authors analyze 884 Internet-based restaurant menus from inside and outside San Jose, California, which they collected before and after the city implemented a 25% minimum wage increase in 2013. Their findings suggest that nearly all of the cost increase was passed through to consumers, as prices rose 1.45% on average. Minimum wage price elasticities averaged 0.058 for all restaurants and ranged from 0.044 to 0.109, depending on the type of re…
Labor Historians, Labor Economics, and the Question of Synthesis
Journal Article Review Essay/Labor Historians, Labor Economics, and the Question of Synthesis Get access Ronald W. Schatz Ronald W. Schatz assistant professor of history Wesleyan University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 71, Issue 1, June 1984, Pages 93–100, https://doi.org/10.2307/1899835 Published: 01 June 1984
Revision of the Italian psychiatric reform
Segmented Work, Divided Workers
Up Against the American Myth
Island of Dreams. Environmental Crisis in Japan
Why Carter Can't Reduce Military Spending
The Wall Street Journal recently expressed an interest, through the Public Affairs Office of the University of California at Berkeley, in running material on current economic issues from a radical viewpoint. The following article was accordingly written and submitted to the Journal, but it was not judged acceptable. Michael Reich is a member of the economics faculty at Berkeley, and is co-author of The Capitalist System: A Radical Analysis of Ame…
Who Benefits from Racism? The Distribution among Whites of Gains and Losses from Racial Inequality
Most neoclassical investigations argue that racial discrimination hurts employers and benefits white workers; however, these distributional hypotheses have not been tested empirically. This article argues that, no matter how racial inequality is produced, and whether or not capitalists individually or collectively practice discrimination, racial inequality benefits capitalists and hurts white workers, by weakening workers' solidarity and bargaini…
Six Lives, Six Deaths. Portraits from Modern Japan
Empirical and Ideological Elements in the Decline of Ricardian Economics
Historians of economic thought have debated the relative import ance of theoretical advances, changes in the economy, ideological factors, and confrontations of theory with evidence in explaining the rise and decline of eco nomic paradigms. In the case of the decline of Ricardian economics in England in the 1830s, the debate has focused on the alleged empirical irrelevance (because of technical improvements) of Ricardo's theory of diminishing ret…
Six Lives, Six Deaths
The Capitalist System
Six Lives, Six Deaths
The Microeconomics of Conflict and Hierarchy in Capitalist Production
This paper develops a formal model of worker-employer relations within capitalist firms. The results illuminate the effects of property rela tions on the organization of work, the monitoring of workers, the extent of wage hierarchies and incentives and inefficiencies in such firms. A comparison model of a workers' cooperative demonstrates that the nature of the political-economic system, not just technology or information and transaction costs, a…
Racial Inequality
In an investigation of the effects of racism on the American economy, Michael Reich evaluates the leading economic theories of racial inequality and presents the new theory that discrimination against blacks increases inequality of income among whites.Originally published in 1981.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeto…
Racial Inequality
Racial Inequality
Segmented Work, Divided Workers
Labor Historians, Labor Economics, and the Question of Synthesis
Journal Article Review Essay/Labor Historians, Labor Economics, and the Question of Synthesis Get access Ronald W. Schatz Ronald W. Schatz assistant professor of history Wesleyan University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 71, Issue 1, June 1984, Pages 93–100, https://doi.org/10.2307/1899835 Published: 01 June 1984
Homogeiniza, Divide y Manda
o y lo concreto. El resultado es una aparente estructura clara de sus argumentos que, sin embargo, se obstruye al ser estos examinados detenidamente. La «interaccion» de conceptos permite que material de niveles de analisis muy diferentes se combine de forma mas o menos ambitraria. Reiteramos que nada de esto pretende condenar los ejercicios de sintesis; sin embargo, la logica de la teoria de alcance intermedio fuerza a los autores a intentar reu…
Segmented Work, Divided Workers
Segmented Work, Divided Workers
Segmented Work, Divided Workers
The Capitalist System
Revision of the Italian psychiatric reform
Social Structures of Accumulation
The social structure of accumulation (SSA) approach seeks to explain the long-term fortunes of capitalist economies in terms of the effect of political and economic institutions on growth rates. This book offers an ideal introduction to this powerful tool for understanding capitalist growth, analysing the social and economic differences between countries and the reasons for the successes and failures of institutional reform. The contributors cove…
How social structures of accumulation decline and are built
The social structure of accumulation (SSA) approach offers a theoretical and historical account of the long-run dynamics of institutional change and economic growth in US capitalism. As initially formulated, the SSA comprises the economic, social, and political institutions that constitute the environment within which the capital accumulations process operates (Gordon et al., 1982). The institutions that make up an SSA undergo a life-cycle that i…
Long swings and stages of capitalism
Capitalism can be defined as a wage-labour system of commodity production for profit. The owners of the means of production (capitalists) employ immediate producers (workers). Employers pay workers wages, keeping the fruits of the labour process for vending on the market at a profit (or loss).
Social Structures of Accumulation
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