Ibrahim Oker

@ibrahimoker.bsky.social

V. Assistant Professor @Union College, Ph.D. @UMN, Comparative and international political economy, Middle East and North Africa, authoritarian politics, social policy #FirstGen https://ibrahimoker.com

Why has the US federal minimum wage stagnated since 2009? We argue the answer lies in institutions. Vesting wage-setting authority in Congress rather than the executive multiplies veto points and diffuses electoral accountability for wage stagnation. @poppublicsphere.bsky.social

Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR@cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 2mo ago

#OpenAccess from @poppublicsphere.bsky.social - The US Minimum Wage in Comparative Perspective - https://cup.org/4dZbnVd - Teri L. Caraway & @ibrahimoker.bsky.social #FirstView

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New article out in World Development: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Armed conflict and human development are complex concepts, and the links between them are many and varied. In this article, a large team of co-authors review these different links. Happy to have been a small part of it.

The impacts of armed conflict on human development: A review of the literature

The detrimental impacts of wars on human development are well documented across research domains, from public health to micro-economics. However, thes…

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