Title
Professor Emeritus; Chair of the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics

Department
Dept of Economics


Faculty URL
https://irle.berkeley.edu/affiliates/michael-reich/

Email
mreich@econ.berkeley.edu

Phone
(510) 642-3647

Fax
(510) 642-6615


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Research Expertise and Interest
minimum wage, living wages, labor market segmentation, low wage labor markets

Research Description
Michael Reich is Professor of Economics and Chair of the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics at the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) of the University of California at Berkeley. He served as Director of IRLE from 2004 to 2015. Reich received his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard. His research publications cover numerous areas of labor economics and political economy, including the economics of racial inequality, the analysis of labor market segmentation, historical stages in U.S. labor markets and social structures of accumulation, high performance workplaces, union-management cooperation, Japanese labor-management systems, living wages and minimum wages.