Josh Bivens
Organization:
Economic Policy Institute
Position:
Economist
Areas of Expertise:
State of the economy, economic issues, Bush’s economic stimulus plan, alternate ways to safely and successfully stimulate the economy, macroeconomics and the impact of globalization on the U.S. and developing economies
Personal Website:
| Josh Bivens joined the Economic Policy Institute in 2002. His areas of research concern macroeconomics and the impact of globalization on the U.S. and developing economies. He has previously worked as an Assistant Professor of Economics at Roosevelt University in Chicago and as an economist at the Congressional Research Service in Washington, DC. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the New School for Social Research. His writing has appeared in The American Prospect, Challenge Magazine, and Worth, as well as in academic journals including the International Review of Applied Economics and the Journal of Economic Issues. He co-authored the book Good Jobs, Bad Jobs, No Jobs: Labor Markets and Informal Work in Egypt, El Salvador, India, Russia, and South Africa that explores the question - do better workers lead to better jobs in the developing world? His publications are posted at http://www.epi.org/author_publications.cfm?author_id=116 |
