Contact Candace Howes
Education
B.A., Columbia University
Ph.D., University of California Berkeley
"My goal is to teach my students that economics is a powerful analytical and political tool which can be used to help improve the condition of peoples' lives, rich and poor."
Candace Howes, Barbara Hogate Ferrin ’43 Associate Professor of Economics, Chair in Labor and the International Economy and Department Chair
Joined Connecticut College: 1995
Specialization:
- Labor economics
- Low wage workers
- Carework
Candace Howes is the Hogate Ferrin '43 Chair in Labor and the International Economy, and Associate Professor of Economics. She has previously taught at the University of Notre Dame, and served as the auto industry analyst for the United Auto Workers in Detroit. She received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley, and her B.A. in Middle East Languages and Literature from Barnard College.
Several years ago she began working on the problems of the long term care workforce and low wage workers. She was awarded a $500,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Atlantic Philanthropies as part of the Better Jobs Better Care initiative which took her to California to study how low wages and benefits contribute to the shortage of home care providers. She has been completing a series of journal articles associated with that study. She is now shifting her focus to New England and a study of long term care workforce development as an economic development strategy.
She is the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters and has published a monograph through the Economic Policy Institute titled "Japanese auto transplants and the U.S. automobile industry," concerning the impact of Japanese investment on U.S. employment. Her most recent book, Competitiveness Matters: Industry and Economic Performance in the U.S., was published by the University of Michigan Press in 2000.
She is a member of the American Economics Association, the Labor and Employment Relations Association, the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession, the International Association for Feminist Economics, sits on the Board of Directors of the non-profit Long Term Care Systems with Choice, and is a Research Associate of the Economic Policy Institute.
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