Publications

Basic Needs and the American Paycheck: New Indicators of Pay Quality and Group Disparities, 1979-2019

David R. Howell

PERI Working Paper Series — June 2025

Confronting Low Pay: Minimum Wage Policy and Employment in the U.S. and France

David R. Howell, Bert M. Azizoglu and Anna Okatenko

PERI Working Paper Series — September 2012

Unemployment Benefits and Work Incentives: The U.S. Labor Market in the Great Recession (revised)

David R. Howell and Bert M. Azizoglu

PERI Working Paper Series — March 2011

Institutions, Aggregate Demand and Cross-Country Employment Performance: Alternative Theoretical Perspectives and the Evidence

David R. Howell

PERI Working Paper Series — June 2010

Unemployment Compensation and High European Unemployment: A Reassessment with New Benefit Indicators

David R. Howell and Miriam Rehm

PERI Working Paper Series — April 2009

By What Measure? A Comparison of French and U.S. Labor Market Performance with New Indicators of Employment Adequacy

David R. Howell and Anna Okatenko

PERI Working Paper Series — November 2008

Do Surges in Less-Skilled Immigration Have Important Wage Effects? A Review of the U.S. Evidence

David R. Howell

PERI Working Paper Series — March 2007