David Card

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David Card is a labor economist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

Card earned his B.A. from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario in 1978 and his Ph.D. in Economics in 1983 from Princeton University.

From 1988 to 1992, Card was Associate Editor of the Journal of Labor Economics and from 1993 to 1997, he was co-editor of Econometrica. He won the John Bates Clark Medal in 1995. In the early 1990s, Card received much attention for his finding, together with his then Princeton University colleague Alan Krueger that, contrary to widely accepted beliefs among economists, the minimum wage increase in New Jersey did not result in job reduction of fast food companies in that stateMyth and Measurement: The New Economics of the Minimum Wage, with Alan B. Kruger, Princeton University Press, 1997. (ISBN 0-691-04823-1). While this claim has been disputed by some (see minimum wage for discussion), many economists, including Nobel prize winners, accept Card and Krueger's findings Jozeph Stiglitz (2002). [Employment, social justice and societal well-being] International Labour Review, 141 (1-2), p. 9 - 29.

David Card has also made fundamental contributions to research on immigrationCard, David. ["Is the new immigration really so bad?"], Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia., educationCard, David. ["Is it worth it to go to college?"] , job training and inequality. On immigration, Card strongly and publically advocates a more open immigration policy, claiming that immigrants do not negatively impact an economy but rather help it grow. Card has done several case studies on the rapid assimilation of immigrant groups, finding that they have little or no impact on wages. In an interview with the New York Times, Card said, "I honestly think the economic arguments [against immigration] are second order. They are almost irrelavent." "The Immigration Equation" by Roger Lowenstein. The New York Times Magazine, July 9, 2006

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