Arin Dube

Provost Professor of Economics
University of Massachusetts Amherst

Welcome to my website. Here you can find information about my research, writing, and media coverage, as well as my book, The Wage Standard.

Bio: Arindrajit (Arin) Dube’s research focuses on labor economics, with additional work in health economics, public finance, and political economy. Current projects include wage inequality, labor market competition, the employment and distributional effects of minimum wages, sectoral bargaining systems, fairness concerns in the workplace, the interplay of behavioral biases and labor market power, the impact of unemployment benefits, and the role of firm wage policies in the growth of inequality. He has also studied employer health mandates, unions and collective bargaining, outsourcing and subcontracting, gun laws and violence, and the capitalization of private information in stock prices.

He has published in leading journals including the Quarterly Journal of Economics, American Economic Review, Review of Economics and Statistics, and American Economic Journal. He has testified before Congress, consulted with the UK government, advised many state legislatures, and is invited to speak about his research around the world. He has written opinion pieces for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and Time Magazine, and has been interviewed extensively on radio and television, including NPR, MSNBC, CNBC, and Bloomberg TV.

Dube received his B.A. in Economics and M.A. in Development Policy from Stanford University and his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago. He has previously held positions as Visiting Professor at the MIT Department of Economics and Boston University’s Questrom School of Business. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a research fellow at IZA (the Institute for Labor in Germany) and RFBerlin, and a research affiliate of the MIT Stone Center on Inequality and Shaping the Future of Work.

Curriculum Vitae

New book — The Wage Standard

What’s Wrong in the Labor Market and How to Fix It — out now from Dutton (Penguin Random House). Why wages stalled for most workers, why that wasn’t inevitable, and what we can do about it.

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