Arin Dube 🚫

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Dad, Economist, Pro-Democracy

UMass Amherst, @nberpubs, visting BU

Advisor: The Stone Foundation

Topics: Minimum Wage. Monopsony. Unemp Ins.

Book project: The Wage Standard

This comes right off the 1999 analysis by @lkatz42 and Krueger in their BPEA. Take the difference between equations 4 and 5: that's the real wage growth. Tightness will raise nominal wage and price similarly. If price growth > nominal wage growth, gap likely from supply shocks.