Commentary:

By raising pay to meet the higher minimums, fast food restaurants were better able to attract workers to fill the vacant jobs. And those workers stayed longer. cal.news/3vrhSwG

📝 Michael Reich & Justin C. Wiltshire

Extremely blessed to live in one of the most beautiful places on Earth

If unemployment is under 4%, and you still want to force people to do jobs that can be done by self-service kiosks, I'm not sure what kind of world you want.

Automating boring, routinized low-paying jobs while keeping unemployment low is a good having/eating cake situation.

🚨New NBER with Andrew Olenski on major hidden profits in the healthcare sector! Bear with me as I explain how nursing homes are able to hide almost 2/3 of their profits from regulators and the public! I promise it's worth it!

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Paper: nber.org/papers/w32258

UQ is hosting the Labour Econometrics Workshop (LEW) this August! Two amazing keynotes in Heather Royer and Jonathan Roth. Come visit our beautiful campus and combine it with a holiday to South-East Queensland!

📢 Call for papers 📢

1st workshop in labour economics at Nottingham GEP - Globalisation and Economic Policy

Keynotes: Giovanni Peri & Ines Helm

Small workshop, great opportunity for feedback!

Submit by 1 April👇

More info & submission: t.ly/loEeE

Editors at academic journals be like

I am looking forward to giving the Dr. Frank Anton Distinguished Lecture in Economics at
the University of Calgary this Friday.

I will talk about the Wage Standard, the theme of my book (coming out in 2025).

#MinimumWage Effects and #Monopsony Explanations
- revised February 2024 irle.berkeley.edu/publications/w… via IRLE UC Berkeley

Costco really does tick all the boxes: Great products? Low prices? High wages? Great returns for investors? Check to all.

This article doesn't even mention how favorably their employee benefits package compares to competitors'.

economist.com/business/2024/…

epi.org/company-wage-t…

Kinda crazy if you think about it that for a long time, labor economics had little to say about how companies set wages ... because the question made no sense.

Paid maternity leave boosts female entrepreneurship

jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/…

Refs sometimes make honest mistakes but this wasn't even a bad joke. Taylor should be gone from the NBA

Come check out our presentation on this paper at 8am tomorrow, in Conference Center 221B!

Can't wait for our excellent session at #ASSA2024 . Hope to see many at the conference! Our slides are available at aeaweb.org/conference/202…

Christmas ruined

Maybe they can negotiate to oppress from home (OFH) two days a week

time.com/6263906/taliba…

A.I. is wonderful