Professor David E. Card receives honorary doctorate
Visit by Nobel Laureate in Economics Prof. David E. Card
David Card was Chairman of the Research Advisory Board of RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research from 2003 to 2011. He received the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for his empirical contributions to labor market economics. Among other things, he showed that an increase in minimum wages in the low-wage sector in the USA had hardly any negative effect on employment. On May 4 and 5, 2022, David Card was in the Ruhr area, among other things to receive an honorary doctorate from Ruhr University Bochum.
Entry in the visitors book of the city of Essen
On the morning of May 5, 2022, David Card signed the visitors book of the city of Essen at a ceremony in the garden hall of Villa Hügel.
![[Translate to English:] Gruppenbild im Gartensaal der Villa Hügel – die Teilnehmenden des Festakts zur Stahlbuch-Eintragung](/fileadmin/_processed_/1/d/csm__DavidCard__Stahlbuch__05mai2022__0868_044912c646.jpg)
- Grußworte von „Hausherrin“ Ursula Gather, Vorsitzende des Kuratoriums der Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung
- Im Beisein von Thomas Kufen (Oberbürgermeister der Stadt Essen) und Ursula Gather (Vorsitzende des Kuratoriums der Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung) trug sich David Card ins Stahlbuch der Stadt Essen ein
- Gruppenbild im Gartensaal der Villa Hügel – die Teilnehmenden des Festakts zur Stahlbuch-Eintragung
