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Dr Attila Lindner

Dr Attila Lindner

Associate

Expertise: labour economics, public finance, psychology and economics

Telephone:
020 7679 5485
Email:
a.lindner@ucl.ac.uk
Links:
CEP Labour Markets

Biography

Dr Attila Lindner's current areas of research are:

  • I am interested in how public policies can alleviate inequality. My current research aims to better understand the economic consequences of minimum wage policies.
  • My other area of research aims to better understand job search and its interaction to unemployment insurance. In particular, I am interested in whether non-standard preferences plays role in job search and how these preferences alter the optimal design of UI.

Publications

CEP discussion papers
The effect of minimum wages on low-wage jobs: evidence from the United States using a bunching estimator

We propose a novel method that infers the employment effect of a minimum wage increase by comparing the number of excess jobs paying at or slightly above the new minimum wage to the missing jobs paying below it. Using st... Read more...

Doruk Cengiz, Arindrajit Dube, Attila Lindner and Ben Zipperer

16 February 2018

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