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David N. Margolis

Paris School of Economics—CNRS, France, and IZA, Germany

I am glad to be part of this project. I hope that the contributions presented here will help policymakers better understand the issues they confront, and provide insight in how to make better decisions

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Author

Current position

Associate Professor, Paris School of Economics and Research Director, National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), assigned to the Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne, France

Research interest

Labor economics, development economics, applied econometrics, industrial organization

Website

http://bit.ly/Margolis_IZApage

Positions/functions as a policy advisor

Consultant to The World Bank and the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research

Past positions

Senior Economist, The World Bank; Associate Professor, Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST); Assistant Professor, Université de Montréal, Canada

Qualifications

PhD, Cornell University, 1993

Selected publications

  • “Does work pay in France? Monetary incentives and the guaranteed minimum income.” Journal of Public Economics 92:7 (2008): 1669–1697 (with M. Gurgand).

  • “Should employment authorities worry about mergers and acquisitions?” Portuguese Economic Journal 5:2 (2006): 167–194.

  • “Minimum wages and youth employment in France and the United States.” In: Blanchflower, D. G., and R. B. Freeman (eds). Youth Employment and Joblessness in Advanced Countries. Cambridge: NBER, 2000 (with J. Abowd, F. Kramarz, and T. Lemieux).

  • “Part-year employment, slow reemployment and earnings losses: The case of worker displacement in France.” In: Haltiwanger, J. C., J. I. Lane, J. R. Spletzer, J. J. M. Theeuwes, and K. R. Troske (eds). The Creation and Analysis of Employer-Employee Matched Data. Amsterdam: North Holland, 1999.

  • “High wage workers and high wage firms.” Econometrica 67:2 (1999): 251–333 (with J. Abowd and F. Kramarz).

article(s)

  • Introducing a statutory minimum wage in middle and low income countries

    Successful implementation of a statutory minimum wage depends on context, capacity, and institutional design

    David N. Margolis, May 2014
    Motivations for introducing a statutory minimum wage in developing countries include reducing poverty, advancing social justice, and accelerating growth. Attaining these goals depends on the national context and policy choices. Institutional capacity tends to be limited, so institutional arrangements must be adapted. Nevertheless, a statutory minimum wage could help developing countries advance their development objectives, even where enforcement capacity is weak and informality is pervasive.
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