David Card
David Card appears in Why are we so obsessed with manufacturing? through research cited with Jesse Rothstein and Moises Yee on wage premiums across industries. The episode uses that work to make Manufacturing Pay Premium concrete: a worker moving from restaurants into manufacturing is cited as receiving an average 35% pay bump.
The source does not make Card the main interview subject. His role is evidentiary, grounding a claim that manufacturing can pay better than many service jobs while still not being the highest-paying or universally good option.
Connections
- Jesse Rothstein and Moises Yee - co-cited researchers in the source.
- Manufacturing Pay Premium - concept grounded by the cited wage comparison.
- Good Jobs For Non-College Workers - broader labor-market policy question.
- Gordon Hansen - economist who interprets the manufacturing premium in the episode.