Jeannette Wicks-Lim

Jeannette Wicks-Lim is an economist and research fellow at the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. She specializes in labor economics.

9 articles

May/June 2016

It Pays to Be White

Assessing how White people benefit from race-based economic inequality.

Jeannette Wicks-Lim May 1, 2016

January/February 2016

Is a $15 Minimum Wage Economically Feasible?

July 29, 2013 Protestor, by Annette Bernhardt. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons. Campaigns like 15Now and

Jeannette Wicks-Lim Jan 1, 2016

November/December 2014

Why We All Need Affirmative Action

Recent shootings of young black men sound the alarm for public policies that directly counter racist stereotypes.

Jeannette Wicks-Lim Nov 1, 2014

May/June 2013

Undercounting the Poor

The U.S.'s New, but Only Marginally Improved, Poverty Measure

Jeannette Wicks-Lim May 1, 2013

January/February 2012

The Great Recession in Black Wealth

White wealth reaches historic high of twenty times black wealth.

Jeannette Wicks-Lim Jan 1, 2012

September/October 2010

We Need a (Green) Jobs Program

Clean-energy investment would promote job growth for a wide swath of the U.S. workforce.

Jeannette Wicks-Lim Sep 1, 2010

January/February 2010

Creating Decent Jobs

The Role of Unions

Jeannette Wicks-Lim Jan 1, 2010

Issue 281

Should We Be Talking About Living Wages Now?

This article is no longer available online

Jeannette Wicks-Lim Mar 1, 2009

Issue 265

Measuring the Full Impact of Minimum and Living Wage Laws

Workers who were earning less than the new wage floor are not the only ones who benefit from a higher minimum wage.

Jeannette Wicks-Lim May 1, 2006

The Economics of Trump's War with Iran

The Art of Performing Maintenance

The Byproducts of the War on Iran