Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences

CSTPR Noontime Seminar

Wednesday October 19 2016 @ 12:00 pm
to 1:00 pm

October

19

Wed

2016

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Event Type
Seminar
Availability

Open to Public

Audience
  • CIRES employees
  • CU Boulder employees
  • General Public
  • NOAA employees
  • Science collaborators
    • Host
    CIRES
    Link
    Webinar Link

    Student Expertise and the Legislative Process
    by Jeffrey Zax, University of Colorado Department of Economics
     
    Jeffrey Zax is a professor specializing in labor economics, public economics, and urban economics. He has published papers on the effects of residential segregation on black labor market behavior; the effects of unions in the local sector on wages, employment, and expenditures; and the effects of regulation on the rate of unionization. He is currently studying income determination and inequality, incomes, discrimination and fertility in China, comparable worth policies, military marriage subsidies, and small business credit markets.