Understanding Minimum Wage and Immigration Policies

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The UMass Amherst Department of Economics is pleased to present the 2025 Philip Gamble Memorial Lecture, featuring labor economist David Card, Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Card won the 2021 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for work that challenged orthodoxy and dramatically shifted understanding of inequality and the social and economic forces that impact low-wage workers. His research focuses on topics such as immigration, minimum wage, and inequality.