Michael j carr

Mike Carr is widely respected as one of Australian Country`s most consequential songwriters & performers.

His songs New England Highway & The Anzac were recorded by Adam Brand in 2002 on Brand’s platinum selling album “Built for Speed” and were both released as singles - The Anzac, winning “Heritage Song of the Year” at the 2003 Golden Guitar Awards.

Mike was signed to Compass Bros Music that same year and released his debut album in 2003 gaining 2 golden guitar nominations for the song Up on his Shoulders, one being for “Apra Song of the Year”.

In 2004, Mike co-wrote a number of songs for Melinda Schneider’s gold selling album “Family Tree”.  The song Real People won the Golden Guitar for “Apra Song of the Year”.

Over the next decade Mike would go on to write songs for Adam Harvey, Mcalister Kemp, Graeme Connors, The Wolfe Bros, Kaylee Bell and many more including Adam Brand’s “Get Loud”,“Milestones” & “Party Downunder&r

UMass Boston

"Reconciling Trends in U.S. in Male Earnings Volatility: Evidence from the SIPP Survey and Administrative Data", Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 41(1), 2023. (with Robert Moffitt and Emily Wiemers)

"If You Don't Like Your Job, Can You Always Quit? Pervasive Monopsony Power and Freedom in the Labor Market", Journal of Law and Political Economy. (with Suresh Naidu)

"The Decline in Lifetime Earnings Mobility: Evidence from Survey-Linked Administrative Data", Labour Economics, 78 (102170), 2022. (with Emily Wiemers)

"Racial Inequality Across Income Volatility and Employment", Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance, 2022. (with Bradley Hardy)

"The Role of Low Earnings in Differing Trends in Earnings Volatility", Economics Letters, 199, 2021. (with Emily Wiemers)

"Earnings Instability and Mobility Over Our Working Lives: Improving Short- and Long-Term Economic Well-Being for U.S. Workers", in Vision 2020: Evidence for a Stronger Economy, 2020. (with Emily Wiemers)

 

Michael Carr (composer)

British popular music composer and lyricist (1905–1968)

Michael Carr

Born

Maurice Alfred Cohen


(1905-03-11)11 March 1905

Leeds, Yorkshire, England

Died16 September 1968(1968-09-16) (aged 63)

London, England

Occupations

Michael Carr (born Maurice Alfred Cohen; 11 March 1905 – 16 September 1968) was a British and Irishpopular music composer and lyricist, best remembered for the song "South of the Border (Down Mexico Way)", written with Irishman Jimmy Kennedy for the 1939 film of the same name.[1]

Life and career

Born in Leeds, the son of cabinet maker and boxer Morris "Cockney" Cohen and Gertrude J. Beresford, Carr was brought up in Ireland, where his father ran a restaurant in Dublin. In his teens he ran away to sea, and took various jobs in the United States, including cowboy in Montana, pianist in Las Vegas, and newspaper reporter.[2] Under the name of Michael Carr, he played a number of small roles in Hollywood films.[3]

He returned to Dublin in 1930, and began writing tunes.

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