#Wage

Anna Stansbury

annastansbury

For #TweetABlackEconomistsPaper, I'll be tweeting about the important work of @pqblair and @BobbyWYChung on the job market signaling value of occupational licensing. [1/N]https://drive.google.com/file/d/16PnLshdN0eC95hrH2WX5oVF5hhk0MMV6

Stephanie Land

stepville

Spent most of the afternoon updating my 30min keynote to be relative with the bad times, and realized something: (thread) My book got a lot of attention because I am

Larry Schweikart

LarrySchweikart

1) Ok, folks, feeling better here. 2) Everything I see continues to suggest that the Patriot Day (Jan. 6) activities scared the bejeezus out of the DemoKKKrats. I mean, really

-AM

Agrapesz

New York pays the most taxes in the entire country paying 12.28% of this country taxes. -minimum wage is still at the bottom -train fares are constantly rising -apts are

Arindrajit Dube

arindube

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

Molly Kinder

MollyKinder

New @BrookingsMetro post from @StatelerLaura & me: "#EssentialWorkers comprise about 1/2 of all workers in low-wage occupations. They deserve a $15 #MinimumWage." We examine who they are, why low pay

Smiggles

KingSmiggles

I dont know who needs to hear this but your full body commissions are worth more than $20 If you're not getting any bites in your commissions it's not because

Bougie Black Girl

BougieBlackGurl

You got folk on here who think if you're Black and didn't grow up ducking gun shots, lived in a house, ate three times a day, had a good relationship

Diane Swonk

DianeSwonk

I was working on a long thread of all the work I have done on the risk we are going into a double dip recession - we are - and

Zito

_Zeets

The minimum wage conversation is always reductive and circular, at least on here. The same nonsense talking points come up each year. But what's consistently amazing is how much contempt

Adulting is Hard 🌱🏴🦺🔥(3 day restriction)

dontcalltextme

Hello from the Bible Belt! As I’ve mentioned in other threads, there are many ways to be an activist. I like to fight misinformation and propaganda. In this thread, I’ll

Ian Benjamin

IanBenjamin11

We need to de-stigmatize going back to live with parents. For ~70 yrs it was realistic to earn a living wage at 21 and buy a house and live on

Stephen Michael Feinstein

Ptr_StephenFein

I have received some questions as to whether or not a stolen election constitutes justification for a war of independence. I’m not sure how widespread this thinking is, but this

Courtney Milan 🦖

courtneymilan

They really think that a violent coup would mean that we’d all continue on in the world we have, except with Trump as President for another four years.https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1348647178307325954 Wealthy private-jet-owning

Erik Öberg

ek_oberg

Paper alert!In a new NBER WP, Tobias Broer, @KrusellPer and I present a simple model to investigate how the interaction of nominal rigidities and household heterogeneity shape fiscal multipliers. https://www.nber.org/papers/w28366 Thre

Alexandra Chalupa

AlexandraChalup

Some Americans helped Putin rise to power and emboldened him, and got themselves owned in the process. Some aided and abetted the Kremlin, at the expense of Russians and others

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