Jeannette Wicks-Lim
Research Professor
Jeannette Wicks-Lim completed her Ph.D. in economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2005. Wicks-Lim specializes in labor economics with an emphasis on the low-wage labor market and has an overlapping interest in the political economy of race. Her dissertation, Mandated wage floors and the wage structure: Analyzing the ripple effects of minimum and prevailing wage laws, is a study of the overall impact of mandated wage floors on wages. Specifically, she estimates the extent to which mandated wage floors cause wage changes beyond those required by law, either through wage effects that ripple across the wage distribution or spillover to workers that are not covered by the wage mandate. Other recent research includes economic impact studies of minimum wage and living wage proposals. Her current research interest includes the interaction between minimum wage laws and the Earned Income Tax Credit, health effects of anti-poverty policies, and the dynamics of the low-wage labor market. Wicks-Lim regularly contributes to the magazine Dollars and Sense, and many of her articles are featured in Dollars and Sense textbooks. Prior to coming to PERI, Wicks-Lim was a visiting professor at Marlboro College, in Marlboro, Vermont. She has also worked as a research assistant for the Economic Policy Institute and a research associate for Monitoring the Future at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
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Recent Research
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Labor Supply, Labor Demand, and Potential Labor Shortages Through New U.S. Clean Energy, Manufacturing, and Infrastructure Laws
February 2024
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Employment Impacts of New U.S. Clean Energy, Manufacturing, and Infrastructure Laws
September 2023
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Revising the Racial Wage Gap Among Men in the United States: The Role of Nonemployment, Underemployment, and Incarceration
July 2023
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A Green Economy Transition Program for South Korea
March 2022
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A Program for Economic Recovery and Clean Energy Transition in California
June 2021
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State-Level Employment Impacts of Proposed National THRIVE Agenda
March 2021
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Employment Impacts of Proposed U.S. Economic Stimulus Programs: Job Creation, Job Quality, and Demographic Distribution Measures
March 2021
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Impacts of the Reimagine Appalachia & Clean Energy Transition Programs for West Virginia
February 2021
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Impacts of the Reimagine Appalachia & Clean Energy Transition Programs for Pennsylvania
January 2021
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Employment Creation and Just Transition Through a U.S. Zero-Carbon Program
November 2020