Ioana Marinescu
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Do governments do better than markets? Obviously, it depends. For example, when it comes to charter schools, which is a form of quasi-privatization of schooling, the evidence shows that they
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New paper Workers' wages are taxed by employers who violate their rights, & this tax is regressive. A 10% wage increase is associated with a 4% decrease in labor violation
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It can both be true that $600 is a disincentive to find a job in some cases as @stevenmnuchin1 says, AND that this has no effect on employment. When there
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#Monopsony at #NBERSI! New work in progress by @EDerenoncourt & co-authors shows that voluntary wage increases by the likes of Amazon and Walmart force competitors to post higher wages (see
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