David Howell

David Howell is Professor, and formerly Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, at Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy. He chaired the Urban Policy Program from 1994-2001. He is a Faculty Research Fellow at the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at the New School. His research focuses on labor markets at the local, national and international levels. Recent publications have examined the effects of immigration on the economic status of foreign and native-born workers in New York City; the nature of recent changes in skill requirements and the determinants of relative wage trends in the U.S.; and the extent to which labor market institutions and social policy explain patterns of unemployment in Europe and the United States. He is the editor of Fighting Unemployment: The Limits of Free Market Orthodoxy (Oxford University Press).