Aida Farmand is an economic policy researcher with significant experience in labor market research. Her research focuses on bargaining power of workers, the public cost of low wages, and the dynamics of the low-wage labor markets with a particular focus on gender and racial inequities. Previously, she worked as a research associate for the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at the New School for Social Research. She has a doctorate in economics from the New School for Social Research.
This study of gig passenger and delivery driver earnings in the Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco Bay, and Seattle metros finds the typical drivers earned less than the applicable minimum wage in all five metros.
This research note evaluates the impact of PLAs on the costs of affordable housing construction projects under Proposition HHH in Los Angeles, making it a critical case study given the city’s efforts to address homelessness.
The California state government has close to a quarter of a million employees, almost half of whom are women and almost two-thirds of whom are workers of color. But across occupations and throughout the state, many state workers earn well below what is needed to attain a decent standard of living in California.
Aida Farmand’s work finds that older workers have become more exposed to the risk of job displacement over time.
