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 Professor of Economics Education
Joined Connecticut College: 1995
Specialization:
- Labor economics
- Low-wage workers
- Carework
- Long-term care
At Connecticut College, Candace Howes is the Barbara Hogate Ferrin ’43 Professor of Economics Education.
She 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.
She is currently 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. Her recent work has been published in the Gerontologist, Industrial Relations and State of California Labor.
She also provides research assistance and expert testimony for the advocacy groups that support long term care workers and consumers. Howes was recently invited to join the Carework Group at the Russell Sage Foundation and will be working collaborative on a book with members of that group.
Her earlier work was focused on the impact of declining competitiveness on U.S. manufacturing workers. 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 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 and the International Association for Feminist Economics..
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