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> Arindrajit Dube argues that the answer is empowering workers and setting mandatory wage standards across industries.

The author of the study, Arindrajit Dube, also posted a thread [1] to Twitter on his main takeaways.

In a 2010 study published in Review of Economics and Statistics, scholars Arindrajit Dube, T.

A new review that I co-authored with Arindrajit Dube finds that most minimum wage studies find no job losses or only small disemployment effects.

The labor economist Arindrajit Dube has estimated hourly wage changes — by decile rather than quartile — over a longer period, since the beginning of the pandemic recession.

Similarly, a recent paper by the economist Arindrajit Dube finds that a 10 percent raise in the minimum wage should reduce the number of families living in poverty by around 2 percent to 3 percent.

[I]n a new research paper by Doruk Cengiz, Arindrajit Dube, Attila Lindner and Ben Zipperer that looks at data during the period from 1979 to 2016 in 138 U.

This point is supported by our finding that division-level placebo minimum wages are negatively associated with employment in counties with identical minimum wage profiles." Dube, Arindrajit, Lester, T.

The article mentions that the unemployment benefits don't fully account for it: > In the early part of the pandemic the UI supplement was even more generous, at $600, but its expiry in the summer had “little effect on overall employment”, according to a paper published in February by Arindrajit Dube of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.