Miguel Contreras Labor Program
David Card
Department of Economics549 Evans Hall, #3880
Berkeley, California 94720-3880
(510) 642-5222
card@econ.berkeley.edu
INTERVIEW WITH DAVID CARD
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
THE REGION, December 2006
David Card's research
activities over the past year can be divided into several
areas. In the immigration area, he completed a joint paper
that compares the U.S. born adult children of immigrants in
the mid-1990s with similar "second generation" individuals
in 1940 and 1970. He has also continued to work on the issue
of labor market competition between immigrants and natives,
and plans to write a paper on the mobility responses of native
workers to immigrant inflows. In the education area, he examined
the effects of the Canadian "G.I. Bill" - a college subsidy
program that was offered to Canadian veterans after World
War II. In a chapter in the forthcoming Handbook of Economics,
Professor Card presents a review of recent research on the
payoffs to education, and proposes a series of economic models
that are useful in interpreting and synthesizing this research.
Other areas of investigation include the responses of youth
in Canada and the United States to changes in labor market
conditions; the effects of the 1992 rise in the New Jersey
minimum wage on employment in the fast food industry in the
state; and changes in the unemployment insurance system on
the duration of unemployment insurance claims.
