Arindrajit Dube

My Blog Posts:

  • Early withdrawal of pandemic UI: impact on job finding in July using Current Population Survey

    Arindrajit Dube August 20, 2021 In Coombs et al. (2021), we use bank transaction level data from Earnin to track job finding rates of those previously unemployed and receiving UI benefits for 19 states where pandemic UI expired in June versus 23 states which decided to retain the federal benefits through September. We found that…

  • Early impacts of the expiration of pandemic unemployment insurance programs

    by Arindrajit Dube July 18, 2021 So far, 25 states have ended their participation in all or most of the pandemic unemployment insurance (UI) programs: 22 of these states ended them in June, and 3 in July. All of these 25 states have ended the $300/week benefit boost (Pandemic Unemployment Compensation, or PUC). But 21…

  • Puerto Rico’s predicaments: Is its minimum wage the culprit?

    (Co-authored with Ben Zipperer. Posted at Washington Center for Equitable Growth) Puerto Rico today faces a serious debt crisis, recently defaulting on a bond payment. The proximate cause is a slowdown in economic growth since the mid-2000s, which has reduced tax revenues, and a declining labor market, where employment growth has been mostly in the red…