Dr. Edward Lazear, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution; Jack Steele Parker Professor of Human Resources, Management and Economics at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, has answers to how a second minimum wage increase in two years will affect the booming economy, record low unemployment rates, and "big labor's" interests.
Lazear has written extensively on labor markets and personnel issues. He is the current and founding editor of the Journal of Labor Economics. He is also an elected fellow of the Econometric Society and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Among his many awards and honors, Lazear received the Distinguished Teaching Award, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, 1994; and is the current president of the Society of Labor Economists.
