UC Geography Stafford Lecturer to Discuss Globalization and Wage Inequality
David L. Rigby, professor of geography and statistics of UCLA and director of the UCLA Census Research Data Center, will speak at the University of Cincinnati on Thursday, May 5 at 3:30 p.m. for the
's sixth annual Howard A. Stafford Lecture in Economic Geography.
What:
"Globalization and Impacts of Trade on U.S. Wage Inequality"
Who:
David L. Rigby, UCLA Professor of Geography and Statistics; Director of UCLA Census Research Data Center; Research Affiliate of U.S. Bureau of the Census
When:
3:30 p.m., Thursday, May 5
Where
:
Room 500, Swift Hall
The lecture is free and open to the public.
About the speaker:
David Rigby is an economic geographer with publications such as "Impacts of trade on wage inequality: A case study of Los Angeles using matched employer-employee data," Annals of the Association of American Geographers, "Agglomeration economies: Microdata panel estimates from Canadian manufacturing," Journal of Regional Science and "Exploring evolutionary economic geographies," Journal of Economic Geography.
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