Arindrajit Dube

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Arin Dube
Academic career
Institution University of Massachusetts Amherst
Field Labor economics
Alma mater Stanford University (BA, MA)
University of Chicago (PhD)
Website Official website

Arindrajit (Arin) Dube is a professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, known internationally for his empirical research on the effects of minimum wage policies. [1] [2] He is among the foremost scholars regarding the economic impact of minimum wages. [3] In 2019, he was asked by the UK Treasury to conduct a review of the evidence on the impact of minimum wages, which informed the decision to set the level of the National Living Wage. [4] [5] His work is focused on the economics of the labor market, including the role of imperfect competition, institutions, norms, and behavioral factors that affect wage setting and jobs.

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Biography

Dube graduated from Roosevelt High School in Seattle in 1991. He received his BA in economics (with honors) and MA in international development policy from Stanford University in 1996. He received his PhD in economics from the University of Chicago in 2003, and was a postdoctorate scholar at UC Berkeley prior to joining University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is the brother of economist Oeindrila Dube. [6]

Research

Dube has published dozens of works in labor economics, health economics, public finance, and political economy. He is one of the leading scholars of minimum wage effects on employment [7] and inequality, [8] and has also studied the role of fairness concerns in wage-setting, the nature and extent of competition in labor markets, and the role of firm wage policies in explaining inequality growth, and impact of unions in the labor market. He has testified on the Minimum Wage before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions, [9] and written about this subject in the New York Times. [10] He has studied employment patterns in all border counties in the U.S. that were affected by state-level minimum wages on one side of state border but not the other side. [3] Dube's other research includes the impact of outsourcing in service occupations on wages and inequality. [11] His research on imperfect competition (monopsony) in the labor market includes experimental evidence from online labor markets. [12] He has also written on how the 2004 expiration of the Federal Assault Weapons Ban in the United States led to a surge in violence in Mexico, [13] and how top-secret coup authorizations by the CIA were capitalized into asset prices of highly exposed American corporations. [14]

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References

  1. ↑ "UK Treasury's pick of minimum wage advocate is a signal, say economists". Financial Times. Retrieved 2019-07-26.
  2. ↑ "The Ins & Outs Of The Minimum Wage". NPR.org. Retrieved 2019-07-26.
  3. 1 2 "The Burger Flipper Who Became a World Expert on the Minimum Wage". Bloomberg.com. 2021-02-03. Retrieved 2021-02-03.
  4. ↑ "Impacts of minimum wages: review of the international evidence". GOV.UK. Retrieved 2021-02-14.
  5. ↑ "Independent review backs Chancellor pledge for higher National Living Wage". GOV.UK. Retrieved 2021-02-14.
  6. ↑ Dube, Arindrajit (2019-01-30). "My brilliant sister Oeindrila Dube (at @HarrisSchool) has a totally fascinating paper that finds Queens in Europe were more likely to engage in wars than kings, perhaps counterintuively". @arindube. Retrieved 2019-09-06.
  7. ↑ Zipperer, Ben; Lindner, Attila; Dube, Arindrajit; Cengiz, Doruk (2019). "The Effect of Minimum Wages on Low-Wage Jobs". The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 134 (3): 1405–1454. doi: 10.1093/qje/qjz014 . ISSN   0033-5533.
  8. ↑ Dube, Arindrajit (2019). "Minimum Wages and the Distribution of Family Incomes". American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. 11 (4): 268–304. doi: 10.1257/app.20170085 . ISSN   1945-7782.
  9. ↑ https://www.help.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Dube.pdf Statement by Arindrajit Dube, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Economics University of Massachusetts, before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Hearing on “Keeping up with a Changing Economy: Indexing the Minimum Wage”
  10. ↑ Dube, Arindrajit (2013-11-30). "The Minimum We Can Do". Opinionator. Retrieved 2019-07-26.
  11. ↑ Dube, Arindrajit; Kaplan, Ethan (2010). "Does Outsourcing Reduce Wages in the Low-Wage Service Occupations? Evidence from Janitors and Guards". ILR Review. 63 (2): 287–306. doi:10.1177/001979391006300206. ISSN   0019-7939. S2CID   37302026.
  12. ↑ Suri, Siddharth; Naidu, Suresh; Jacobs, Jeff; Dube, Arindrajit. "Monopsony in Online Labor Markets". American Economic Review: Insights. doi:10.1257/aeri. S2CID   241328479.
  13. ↑ García-Ponce, Omar; Dube, Oeindrila; Dube, Arindrajit (2013). "Cross-Border Spillover: U.S. Gun Laws and Violence in Mexico". American Political Science Review. 107 (3): 397–417. doi:10.1017/S0003055413000178. hdl: 10419/69479 . ISSN   0003-0554. S2CID   9252246.
  14. ↑ Naidu, Suresh; Kaplan, Ethan; Dube, Arindrajit (2011). "Coups, Corporations, and Classified Information". The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 126 (3): 1375–1409. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.700.4106 . doi:10.1093/qje/qjr030. ISSN   0033-5533.
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