Will Milberg, the dean of The New School for Social Research (NSSR), and five other New School faculty members will be participating in an international comparative analysis on the topic of wealth and income disparity in Germany and the United States.
Sponsored by the German Research Foundation (DFG), the analysis comprises ten projects, each funded through a €20,000 grant to support research assistants and conference expenses.
Milberg will analyze research from Lederer and other German University in Exile scholars who studied labor markets and inequalities; economists Willi Semmler and Mark Setterfield will examine macroeconomic drivers of inequality; Teresa Ghilarducci, director of the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis, and urban policy specialist Rick McGahey, will investigate inequality in retirement systems; and Christian Proaño will focus on experimental economics, entrepreneurship, and inequality.
More info about this grant award can be found here.