Critically acclaimed minimum wage scholar, Arindrajit Dube, Provost Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and research fellow at the IZA Institute of Labor Economics in Germany, will speak on his new book on pay setting in the United States, using two decades of research to show how wages have become stagnant for the majority of workers and the economic costs of that stagnation. Dube will also discuss policy solutions that workers can pursue at the local, state, and federal levels to boost wages.
Dube will be joined by Suresh Naidu, Professor of International and Public Affairs and Jack Wang and Echo Ren Professor of Economics and Alex Hertel-Fernandez, Herbert Lehman Professor of International and Public Affairs, and founder of the American Democracy Initiative at SIPA's Institute of Global Politics, for a discussion on what this means for the future of work and American democracy.
Talmon Smith, Economics Reporter at The New York Times, will moderate the event.
The event is cosponsored by the Center for Political Economy at Columbia World Projects and SIPA's Insititute of Global Politics' American Democracy Initiative.
