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New paper providing *overall* impact of minimum wages on low-wage employment with Cengiz, Lindner and @dzentlermunro. We use ML to create a demographics-based low-wage group capturing ~75% of all likely
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Today @USCBO released its projections for $15/2025 min wage. Here are some thoughts on their employment estimate. Tl;dr. They used same evidence (11 studies) as 2019 report but UPweighted more
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An amusingly bizarre talking point I've seen from min wage critics of late: publication bias against studies finding negative effects reflecting "politicization."What's bizarre is this: it is well known there
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This short thread summarizes my thinking the perennial question about minimum: "how high is OK?"Tl;dr: we don't yet know, and that's ok.1/ First of all, in the US, the $7.25
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People who think minimum wage is just an inevitably controversial topic in politics & economics should spend some time studying the U.K.Tl;dr. UK used to be like the US back
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I was asked by the UK Treasury to review intl. evidence on minimum wage, with focus on impact at higher levels.My review is now out. It aims to provide comprehensive,
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Looks like we all talk about this roughly every 5 years, so here was my discussion on this from 2015: https://arindube.com/2015/04/19/public-assistance-private-subsidies-and-low-wage-jobs/ I mostly agree with Ioana. At the same time,
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Just sat through our Northampton school town fall meeting about moving from all-remote to hybrid next month.First of all, big appreciation of the teachers. They're real heroes! Being super creative
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As we debate whether to cut UI benefits in the middle of the pandemic, it's useful to keep in mind what we know about the impact of the $600 benefit
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