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Curriculum Vitae

Oren M. Levin-Waldman, Ph.D.

14 Roble Road

Wesley Hills, NY 10901

(845) 364-9753 (H)

(212) 343-1234 ext 2220 (O)

(914) 629-6351 (cell)

olevin-waldman@metropolitan.edu

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Academic Experience

Professor, Graduate School for Public Affairs and Administration, Metropolitan College of New York, New York, NY (9/2003 —).

Research Scholar, Binzagr Institute for Sustainable Prosperity (2015 ---)

---- Representative of Labor Economics/Labor Markets interest section on Editorial Advisory Board of Perspectives on Work, a publication of the Labor Employment Relations Association (LERA); also on Editorial Board of Regional Labor Review.

---- Write regular Column for Yonkers Tribune, Westchester Guardian and LaborPress (6/13 ----).

---- Regular guest (one hour every other week) on Westchester on the Level, a blog/talk radio show (9/13 ----).

---- Researcher for Employment Policy Research Network (EPRN) (5/12----).

---- Adjunct, School of Management, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY (2010-2012): MPA courses taught: Program Planning and Evaluation (online); Economics of the Public Sector; Managing Organizational Change (online and in classroom); and Global Issues in Public Administration (online and in classroom)

Henry J. Raimondo Professor, Henry J. Raimondo Institute of Urban Research and Public Policy, New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ (9/2001 — 6/2003) --- position eliminated from NJ State budget.

Labor Market Analyst/Consultant, Public/Private Ventures, New York, NY (6/2000 —2/2001); conducted major study and analysis of local labor markets in regards to composition, distribution of income, and labor force participation.

Resident Scholar, The Jerome Levy Economics Institute; and Visiting

Associate Professor, Department of Political Studies, Bard College

(1994 — 2000)

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Economics and Philosophy, The College of Staten Island/CUNY, Staten Island, NY. (2/1993-6/1994)

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ. (1990-1992)

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Millersville University, Millersville, PA. (1989-1990)

Education

Ph.D. Temple University, 1989 (Political Science)

M.A. Temple University, 1985 (Urban Studies)

B.A. Temple University, 1982 (History, cum laude)

Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1980-81

Scholarly Publications

Books

The Minimum Wage: A Reference HandBook ( ABC-CLIO under Praeger Press label, 12/15)

The American Constitution (San Diego, CA, Bridgepoint Education Co., 2011)

Wage Policy, Income Distribution, and Democratic Theory (London and New York, Routledge, 2011)

The Political Economy of the Living Wage: A Study of Four Cities (Armonk, NY M.E. Sharpe, 2005)

The Case of the Minimum Wage: Competing Policy Models

(Albany, State University of New York Press, 2001).

Reconceiving Liberalism: Dilemmas of Contemporary Liberal Public Policy

(Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996)

Plant Closure, Regulation and Liberalism: The Limits to Liberal Public Philosophy (Lanham, MD; University Press of America, 1992)

Articles

“Refocusing the Minimum Wage Debate: Overcoming Management Failure and Achieving the High Road,” Forum for Social Economics (forthcoming)

“Who Does Warren Buffet Speak For? How America came to embrace the Low-Road,” Challenge 58, 5 (September/October 2015):439-460

“Why the Minimum Wage Orthodoxy Reigns Supreme,” Challenge 58, 1 ( January/February 2015): 29-50.

“The Changing Contours of Long Term Unemployment: The Need for a More Radical Policy,” Journal of Economic Issues 48, 3 (September 2014):849-870.

“Who Earns the Minimum Wage in New York? Regional Labor Review 16 (Spring/Summer 2014): 20-30.

The Conservative Case for the Minimum Wage,” Challenge 57,1 (January/February 2014):19-40

“Wage Policy as an Essential Ingredient in a Democratic Society,” Journal of Workplace Rights 17,1 (2014):45-67

“Unemployment in the New York Metro Area Following the Great Recession: Is Long- Term Unemployment a Problem?” Regional Labor Review 16 (Fall 2013):8-17

“The Impacts of Recession on Civic Participation in the New York City Metro Area,” Regional Labor Review 15 (Spring/Summer 2013):29-41

“Income, Civic Participation, and Achieving Greater Democracy,” Journal of Socio-Economics, 43 (2013):83-92

“Wage Policy as an Essential Ingredient in Jobs Creation” Challenge: The Magazine of Economic Affairs 55,6 (November/December 2012):26-52

Income Inequality and Disparities in Civic Participation in the New York City Metro Area” Regional Labor Review 15 (Fall 2012):22-29.

“Rising Income Inequality and Declining Civic Participation” Challenge 55, 3 (May/June 2012): 51-70

“From a Narrowly Defined Minimum Wage to Broader Wage Policy” Review of Social Economy 69, 1 (March 2011):77-96

“Urban and Regional Policy Issues,” International Encyclopedia of Public Policy Volume 4: Public Policy, ed. Phillip O’Hara. (GPERU: Perth 2010):624-637

“The Broad Reach of the Minimum Wage” Challenge: The Magazine of Economic Affairs 52,5 (September-October 2009):100-116

“Urban Path Dependency Theory and the Living Wage: Were Cities that Passed Ordinances Destined to Do So?” Journal of Socio-Economics 38, 4 (August 2009): 672-683

“The Broad Benefits of a Higher Minimum Wage: Interstate Impacts along Wage Contours.” Regional Labor Review 11 (Spring/Summer 2009):23-34

“The Minimum Wage and Competing Ethical Conceptions,” Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations (AILR) 16 (2009): 181-210

“Policy Studies,” International Encyclopedia of Public Policy Volume 3: Public Policy, ed. Phillip O’Hara. (GPERU: Perth, 2009):519-532

“Characteristics of Cities that Pass Living Wage Ordinances: Are Certain Conditions More Conducive than Others?” Journal of Socio-Economics 37 ,6 (December 2008): 2201-2213

“Income Inequality and the Distribution of Power,” International Encyclopedia of Public Policy Volume 2: Economic Policy, ed. Phillip O’Hara. (GPERU: Perth, 2008): 340-356

“Living Wage,” International Encyclopedia of Public Policy Volume 2: Economic Policy, ed. Phillip O’Hara. (GPERU: Perth, 2008): 411-424

“Unemployment Compensation,” International Encyclopedia of Public Policy Volume 2: Economic Policy, ed. Phillip O’Hara. (GPERU: Perth, 2008): 548-564

“The Minimum Wage is a Middle Class Issue” (with Charles Whalen), Challenge: The Magazine of Economic Affairs, 50,3 (May-June 2007): 59-71

“How Important is the Minimum Wage? Wage Contours and Job Impacts,” Regional Labor Review 8 (Fall 2005): 23-32

“Welfare Reform and Models of Public Policy: Why Policy Sciences are Required,” Review of Policy Research 22, 4, (July 2005):519-539

“Cities that Pass Living Wage Ordinances,” Challenge: The Magazine of Economic Affairs. 47, 5 (September-October 2004):56-68

“The Living Wage Movement: Its Significance to Urban Politics and Citizenship,” Perspectives on Work. 8,1 (Summer 2004):40–42

“Policy Orthodoxies, the Minimum Wage, and the Challenge of Social Science” Journal of Economic Issues. 38,1 (March 2004):139-154

“The Minimum Wage and the Cause of Democracy” Review of Social Economy 61,4 (December 2003):487-510

“The Living Wage: Realizing the Republican Ideal” Public Affairs Quarterly 17,3 (July 2003):171-196

“The Minimum Wage and Regional Wage Structure: Implications for Income Distribution” Journal of Economic Issues, 36,3 (September 2002):635-657

“Local Labor Market, Income Inequality, and Institutional Responses: The Case of New York City” Regional Labor Review, 4, (Fall 2001):36-46

“The Effects of the Minimum Wage: A Business Response” Journal of Economic Issues, 34, 3 (September 2000):793-800

“The Rhetorical Evolution of the Minimum Wage,” Rhetoric & Public Affairs, 3,2 (Summer 2000):131-153

“The Minimum Wage Can be Raised: Lessons from the 1999 Levy Institute Survey of Small Business,” Challenge: The Magazine of Economic Affairs 43,2 (March/April 2000):86-96

“Testing the New Welfare: Lessons from a Survey of Small Business,” Policy Sciences, 33,1 (March 2000):55-71

“Minimum Wage and Justice?” Review of Social Economy, 58,1 (March 2000):43-62

“Exploring the Politics of the Minimum Wage,” Journal of Economic Issues 32,3 (September 1998):773-802

“Plant Closings: Is WARN an Effective Response?” Review of Social Economy 56,1 (Spring 1998):59-79

“Unemployment Insurance for a New Age.” Challenge: The Magazine of Economic Affairs 40,2 (March-April 1997):110-120

“Can Locke’s Theory of Property Inform the Court on Fifth Amendment ‘Takings’ Law? Public Affairs Quarterly 10,4 (October 1996):355-377

"Liberals' Opposition to Workfare: A Misunderstanding of their Philosophic Tradition," Public Affairs Quarterly 8,4 (1994):341-357

"Dilemmas of Plant Closing Policy in Liberal Society: Equality, Rights, Justice," Public Affairs Quarterly 4,1(1990):33-53

New Working Papers

“Exploring the Demographic Factors Affecting Passage of Living Wage Ordinances, “ Working Paper # 88, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA (2004)

Public Policy/Applied Research Publications

“Deepening Disparity: Income Inequality in New York City” (with Mark Elliott and Mae Watson Grote), Public/Private Ventures (October 2001)

“Do Institutions Affect the Wage Structure? Right-to-Work Laws, Unionization, and the Minimum Wage,” Public Policy Brief 57, The Jerome Levy Economics Institute, 1999

“The Minimum Wage Can be Raised: Lessons from the 1999 Levy Institute Survey of Small Business,” Policy Notes 6 The Jerome Levy Economics Institute, 1999

“Successful Welfare Reform: A Role for Small Business,” Public Policy Brief 51 The Jerome Levy Economic Institute, 1999

“Small Business and the New Welfare” (with George W. McCarthy) Policy Notes 4 The Jerome Levy Economics Institute, 1998

“Small Business and the Minimum Wage” (with George W. McCarthy) Policy Notes 3 The Jerome Levy Economics Institute, 1998

“Linking the Minimum Wage to Productivity” Public Policy Brief 42 The Jerome Levy Economics Institute, 1998

“A New Path from Welfare to Work: The New Welfare and the Potential for Workforce Development,” Public Policy Brief No. 31 The Jerome Levy Economics Institute, 1997

“Making Unemployment Insurance Work: Reforming Unemployment Insurance: Toward Greater Employment.” Public Policy Brief No. 26 The Jerome Levy Economics Institute, 1996

"The Consolidated Assistance Program: Reforming Welfare by Synchronizing Public Assistance Benefits," Public Policy Brief No. 21 The Jerome Levy Economics Institute, 1995

"The Military's Ban on Homosexuals in Political Context: The Clinton Administration," intro in Homosexuality and the Military: A Sourcebook of Official Uncensored U.S. Government Documents (Upland, PA; DIANE Publishing Co. 1993)

Economic Revitalization in the City: A Sourcebook (with David Bartelt and Karen Curtis) Temple University Institute for Public Policy Studies, 1985

"Evaluation of the Mayfair Neighborhood Retail Strip" (with David Bartelt) Temple University Institute for Public Policy Studies, Community Research Paper, 1985

Book Reviews

Review of After Adam Smith: A Century of Transformation in Politics and Political Economy by Murray Milgate & Shannon C. Stimson. Review of Political Economy (forthcoming April 2012)

Review of Marx at the Margins: On Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies by Kevin B. Anderson. Review of Political Economy (forthcoming April 2012)

Review of International Poverty Law: An Emerging Discourse by Lucy Williams (Ed). Progress in Development Studies, (forthcoming)

Review of Minimum Wage Policy in Great Britain and the United States by Jerold L. Waltman. Labor History, 52,1 (February 2011)

Review of Unjust Deserts: How the Rich are Taking Our Common Inheritance by Gar Alperovitz and Lew Daly. Review of Political Economy 23,1 (January 2011):143-146

Review of From the Corn Laws to Free Trade: Interests, Ideas and Institutions in Historical Perspective by Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey. Review of Political Economy 23,1 (January 2011): 146-149

Review of The Living Wage: Lessons from the History of Economic Thought by Donald R. Stabile. Industrial and Labor Relations Review 63, 3 (April 2010):551-553.

Review of Good Governance and Development by B.C. Smith. Progress in Development Studies, 10,2 (April 2010):182-184.

Review of Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson. Review of Political Economy 21,2 (April 2009): 351-354

Review of Ethical Codes and Income Distribution: A Study of John Bates Clark and Thorstein Veblen by Guglielmo Forges Davanzati. Review of Political Economy 21,2 (April 2009): 355-357

Review of Culture and the Labour Market, by Siobhan Austen. Review of Social Economy. 65, 3(September 2007): 356-359

Review of Worker Centers: Organizing Communities at the Edge of the Dream by Janice Fine. Perspectives on Politics 5,2 (June 2007):365-366

Review of Transferring Wealth & Power from the Old to the New World: Monetary and Fiscal Institutions in the 17th through the 19th Centuries, by Michael D. Bordo & Roberto Cortes-Conde (Eds). Review of Political Economy.. 18,2 (April 2006):280-283.

Review of Economics, Governance and Law: Essays on Theory and Policy, by Warren J. Samuels. Review of Political Economy. 18,2 (April 2006):277-280.

Review of In the Name of Liberalism: Illiberal Social Policy in the United States and Britain, by Desmond King. The American Prospect. 11,9 (March 2000):54-55.

Review of Lessons for Welfare Reform: An Analysis of the AFDC Caseload and Past Welfare-toWork Programs, By Dave M. ONeill and June Ellenoff O'Neill. Eastern Economic Journal. 25,4 (Fall 1999):495-497.

Review of The Union as It Is: Constitutional Unionism and Sectional Compromise, 1787-1861, by Peter B. Krupfer. American Political Science Review. 86,3 (September 1992):807-808.

Current Projects

--- Studying of wage contour effects of minimum wage increases --- submitted to the National Science Foundation in August 2006.

Lectures/Talks

“Wage policy and Achieving Greater Democracy,” Columbia University Seminar of Political Economy and Contemporary Social Issues, New York, NY, November 17, 2011

“The Minimum Wage and Competing Ethical Conceptions,” Just Wages Workshop, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, November 1-2, 2007

Spoke on the Living Wage as part of the Thomas J. Anton/Fred Lippitt lecture series, Brown University, Providence, RI, October 16, 2007

“The Political Economy of the Living Wage,” Urban Dialogues, Metropolitan College of New York, New York, NY, November 15, 2005

“Examining the Low Wage Labor Market through Wage Contours,” Economic Policy Institute, Washington, DC, November 17, 2004

“Wage Policy and Institutions: Implications of Competing Policy Models,” School of Government and Public Policy, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel, January 24, 2001

Other Scholarly & Consulting Activities

Community Services Society of New York. I did labor market analyses for them. (6/2008 – 12/2008 )

Member of the Gerson Lehrman Group Policy & Economics Council. I consult from tine to time on economic policy matters.

Member of the Editorial Board, International Encyclopedia of Public Policy, Connected with the Global Political Economy Research Unit

Series Editor, “Contemporary Public Policy Issues” at M.E. Sharpe, Publishers (9/2002—

CTB/McGraw-Hill, New York, NY (2000); Item writer—wrote items for state social science/educational tests. Contract was for Missouri Department of Education

Workforce Strategies, Rhinebeck, NY (1998); assisted in development of survey instrument to be administered among businesses in Mississippi, and analysis of the data

Defense Information Access Network (DIANE Publishing), Upland, PA -- research, writing and editing on policy issues, as well as analysis of government documents (1/1993-12/1993)

NEH Summer Humanities Fellow, Princeton University (1992)

Episcopal Dioceses of Pennsylvania(Spring 1987); conducted neighborhood analysis

Associations and Memberships

American Political Science Association

Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA)

Research Interests

Economic Development Policy

American Political Economy

Urban Policy

Wage Regulation and Income Inequality

Urban Labor Markets

Constitutional Law and Legal Issues in Public Policy

Ethical Issues in Public Policy

Public Policy Process

Courses Taught

Global Issues In Public Administration (online) (graduate level)

Managing Organizational Change (online) (graduate level)

Nonprofit Governance, Management and Marketing (graduate level)

Role of Values in Policy Construction and Analysis/Value Issues in Policy Planning (graduate level)

Contemporary Economic Issues

Economics in the Public Sector (graduate level)

Program Planning and Evaluation (online) (graduate level)

Introduction to Public Administration (graduate level)

Public Policy (graduate level)

The Evolution of Work and the Politics of Work

The American Welfare State in Comparative Perspective

Intro to Political Science

American Government

Urban Society

Urban Politics

State and Local Politics

The American Presidency

Congress

Economic Philosophy

The Judicial Process (graduate level)

The Supreme Court and the Constitution

Political Parties and Interest Groups

Political Values/Political Theory

Issues in Public Policy

Public Administration/Public Management

Managing the Public Sector

Political Economy

Civil Liberties

Miscellaneous

I have written more than 14 working papers at the Institute and participated as both presenter and discussant at several conferences at the Levy Institute, American Political Science Association, Northeastern Political Science Association, and the Eastern Economics Association.

References

Dr. Paul Lerman, Former Provost at Metropolitan College of New York, (201) 951-8038. Email: paullerman@

Dr. Charles Whalen, General Macroeconomic Analyst, Fiscal Policy Studies Unit, Macroeconomic Analysis Division, Congressional Budget Office, U.S. Congress, Washington, DC (202) 226-2772 E-mail: charles.whalen@ and cwhalen2@rochester.

Dr. Louis Tietje, School of Management, Metropolitan College of New York, New York, NY (212) 343-1234 x 2601. E-mail: ltietje@mcny.edu

Dr. Robert Pollin, Department of Economics and Political Economy Research Institute (PERI)

University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA (413) 577-0126. E-mail: pollin@econs.umass.edu

Dr. Carlos Hernandez, President, New Jersey City University,

Jersey City, NJ (201) 200-3111.

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