Arin Dube
@arindube.bsky.social
Provost Prof. of Economics (UMass Amherst).
Inequality, labor market policies and competition.
Affiliations: NBER, IZA, MIT Shaping the Future of Work Initiative
Preorder my book, The Wage Standard: https://www.thewagestandard.com
Inequality, labor market policies and competition.
Affiliations: NBER, IZA, MIT Shaping the Future of Work Initiative
Preorder my book, The Wage Standard: https://www.thewagestandard.com
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Arin Dube
@arindube.bsky.social
· Sep 16
If you are interested in learning more about minimum wages, Attila Lindner and I have a new, up-to-date review of the topic, coming out in the Handbook of Labor Economics.
Here's the @nberpubs working paper. Link: nber.org/papers/w32878
Here's the @nberpubs working paper. Link: nber.org/papers/w32878
How high is $19 in 2028 in Portland ME? It will likely be around 65% of the median wage in MSA (calculations below). This is squarely within the experience of cities that have enacted citywide minimums, as Attila Lindner and I found in our review of 22 major cities min-to-median ratio was 63%. 🧵
Voters in Maine’s largest city on Tuesday approved Question A, a referendum that would raise the city’s minimum wage to $19 an hour by 2028.
November 5, 2025 at 5:53 PM
How high is $19 in 2028 in Portland ME? It will likely be around 65% of the median wage in MSA (calculations below). This is squarely within the experience of cities that have enacted citywide minimums, as Attila Lindner and I found in our review of 22 major cities min-to-median ratio was 63%. 🧵
Voters in Maine’s largest city on Tuesday approved Question A, a referendum that would raise the city’s minimum wage to $19 an hour by 2028.
November 5, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Voters in Maine’s largest city on Tuesday approved Question A, a referendum that would raise the city’s minimum wage to $19 an hour by 2028.
Historic.
BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City mayoral race, NBC News projects. nbcnews.to/4nIzNUC
November 5, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Historic.
Predictions are hard, especially about the future, but I am quite confident that the term MNYGA will not live on...
November 5, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Predictions are hard, especially about the future, but I am quite confident that the term MNYGA will not live on...
The GOP brand is not looking great tonight.
Pushing families off SNAP and hiking their healthcare premium doesn't seem like a winning strategy for turning that around.
Pushing families off SNAP and hiking their healthcare premium doesn't seem like a winning strategy for turning that around.
November 5, 2025 at 2:01 AM
The GOP brand is not looking great tonight.
Pushing families off SNAP and hiking their healthcare premium doesn't seem like a winning strategy for turning that around.
Pushing families off SNAP and hiking their healthcare premium doesn't seem like a winning strategy for turning that around.
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If you want more on wage boards and how they can achieve what Dani was referring to, check out my book The Wage Standard - now available for pre-order.
www.thewagestandard.com
www.thewagestandard.com
The Wage Standard by Arindrajit Dube: 9780593471418 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
“The go-to guy on minimum wage” (Nobel Laureate and New York Times bestselling author Paul Krugman) tackles one of the thorniest social issues of our times—income inequality—from...
www.thewagestandard.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:45 PM
If you want more on wage boards and how they can achieve what Dani was referring to, check out my book The Wage Standard - now available for pre-order.
www.thewagestandard.com
www.thewagestandard.com
From the recent New Yorker interview of @drodrik.bsky.social
on his new book, by
@johncassidysays.bsky.social
(Link below in the thread).
on his new book, by
@johncassidysays.bsky.social
(Link below in the thread).
November 4, 2025 at 1:43 PM
From the recent New Yorker interview of @drodrik.bsky.social
on his new book, by
@johncassidysays.bsky.social
(Link below in the thread).
on his new book, by
@johncassidysays.bsky.social
(Link below in the thread).
Looking forward to presenting tomorrow at the Princeton labor seminar.
October 20, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Looking forward to presenting tomorrow at the Princeton labor seminar.
Worth reading.
Adam Smith may have won the intellectual battle of ideas, but mercantilism has survived, and sometimes to good effects, from Dani Rodrik www.nber.org/papers/w34353
October 17, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Worth reading.
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Need to systematically search academic publications on a topic? The openalex catalog is very comprehensive and easy to access with the #RStats openalexR package
(h/t @arindube.bsky.social)
(h/t @arindube.bsky.social)
Getting Bibliographic Records from OpenAlex Database Using DSL API
A set of tools to extract bibliographic content from OpenAlex database using API <https://docs.openalex.org>.
docs.ropensci.org
October 16, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Need to systematically search academic publications on a topic? The openalex catalog is very comprehensive and easy to access with the #RStats openalexR package
(h/t @arindube.bsky.social)
(h/t @arindube.bsky.social)
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New WP: We study how minimum wage increases affect poverty and food hardship in the U.S from 1981-2019. Different from recent work, we study the Supplemental Poverty Measure + two measures of food hardship, factor in cost-of-living differences, and more. www.iza.org/publications...
September 29, 2025 at 12:34 PM
New WP: We study how minimum wage increases affect poverty and food hardship in the U.S from 1981-2019. Different from recent work, we study the Supplemental Poverty Measure + two measures of food hardship, factor in cost-of-living differences, and more. www.iza.org/publications...
One of the more meta similarities between 2000 and 2025 is the extent to which the likelihood of a bubble is widely recognized and discussed, even as asset prices climb.
September 29, 2025 at 3:03 AM
One of the more meta similarities between 2000 and 2025 is the extent to which the likelihood of a bubble is widely recognized and discussed, even as asset prices climb.
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This is literally what the actual "siege" of the auxiliary ICE building looks like
September 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
This is literally what the actual "siege" of the auxiliary ICE building looks like
Since "war ravaged" is now being used without any relationship to reality, I hope everyone is enjoying this beautiful sunny afternoon like the one here in war ravaged Western Mass.
September 27, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Since "war ravaged" is now being used without any relationship to reality, I hope everyone is enjoying this beautiful sunny afternoon like the one here in war ravaged Western Mass.
The pro-worker labor policy of the Trump administration is getting very hard to detect
Scoop: Under Trump's NLRB general counsel, the agency's withdrawn a slew of allegations it had been prosecuting, including that an Apple all-staff email Tim Cook sent was illegally coercive, & that firms including Curaleaf had illegal noncompete agreements www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
US Labor Board Withdraws Claims That Apple CEO Violated Workers’ Rights
The US labor board has abandoned its allegations that Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook violated federal labor law, one of many cases where the agency is adopting a more business-friendly ap...
www.bloomberg.com
September 27, 2025 at 1:32 AM
The pro-worker labor policy of the Trump administration is getting very hard to detect
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Finally some good news out of UCLA… Our program has been elevated to an official Department of Labor Studies, the first labor studies department in UC history!
newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/ucla...
newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/ucla...
September 26, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Finally some good news out of UCLA… Our program has been elevated to an official Department of Labor Studies, the first labor studies department in UC history!
newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/ucla...
newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/ucla...
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The BLS is NOT postponing the monthly inflation report, the Consumer Price Index (CPI). Rather, the delay is for the annual Consumer Expenditure Survey (CEX). CEX provides the "weights" for the CPI and other inflation measures.
September 20, 2025 at 1:32 PM
The BLS is NOT postponing the monthly inflation report, the Consumer Price Index (CPI). Rather, the delay is for the annual Consumer Expenditure Survey (CEX). CEX provides the "weights" for the CPI and other inflation measures.
Don't look now, but I expect calls for tax justice to grow louder here in America too.
September 20, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Don't look now, but I expect calls for tax justice to grow louder here in America too.
Pope Leo XIV speaks out against wage inequality.
September 14, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Pope Leo XIV speaks out against wage inequality.
Love it or hate it, this type of pressure on corporations to shape the contours of the market is something the left has wanted to do for a long time, but any actual attempt would have led to an uproar.
Trump has been able to do it with relatively little uproar.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/u...
Trump has been able to do it with relatively little uproar.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/u...
How Lutnick Is Using Government Power to Pressure Private Companies
www.nytimes.com
September 10, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Love it or hate it, this type of pressure on corporations to shape the contours of the market is something the left has wanted to do for a long time, but any actual attempt would have led to an uproar.
Trump has been able to do it with relatively little uproar.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/u...
Trump has been able to do it with relatively little uproar.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/u...
I lived in Seattle in 1991. When my kids ask me what I memories I have about music from my youth this is it.
“Smells Like Teen Spirit”, released as a single 34 yrs ago today
“No one had any psychic foresight .. that the song would go on to do what it did,” said Grohl. “We just fuckin’ rocked it in a little rehearsal space that was like a barn. .. We just thought it was another cool song for the record.”
“No one had any psychic foresight .. that the song would go on to do what it did,” said Grohl. “We just fuckin’ rocked it in a little rehearsal space that was like a barn. .. We just thought it was another cool song for the record.”
September 10, 2025 at 11:38 AM
I lived in Seattle in 1991. When my kids ask me what I memories I have about music from my youth this is it.
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“Smells Like Teen Spirit”, released as a single 34 yrs ago today
“No one had any psychic foresight .. that the song would go on to do what it did,” said Grohl. “We just fuckin’ rocked it in a little rehearsal space that was like a barn. .. We just thought it was another cool song for the record.”
“No one had any psychic foresight .. that the song would go on to do what it did,” said Grohl. “We just fuckin’ rocked it in a little rehearsal space that was like a barn. .. We just thought it was another cool song for the record.”
September 10, 2025 at 11:20 AM
“Smells Like Teen Spirit”, released as a single 34 yrs ago today
“No one had any psychic foresight .. that the song would go on to do what it did,” said Grohl. “We just fuckin’ rocked it in a little rehearsal space that was like a barn. .. We just thought it was another cool song for the record.”
“No one had any psychic foresight .. that the song would go on to do what it did,” said Grohl. “We just fuckin’ rocked it in a little rehearsal space that was like a barn. .. We just thought it was another cool song for the record.”
Alt title: Reimagine carbon based life forms demanding social security privatization
So Cato seems to have decided to use fake, AI-generated young people expressing worries about the future of Social Security to illustrate the need to overhaul social security.
www.cato.org/blog/reimagi...
www.cato.org/blog/reimagi...
Reimagining Social Security Is Out Today!
Reimagining Social Security presents bold, evidence-based ideas to protect younger workers from rising tax burdens and mounting debt, while supporting the most vulnerable seniors.
www.cato.org
September 9, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Alt title: Reimagine carbon based life forms demanding social security privatization