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Ep. 142: Detailing Dube's Dubious Defense of Minimum Wage Hikes

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InFi: the Future of Finance
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Summary

Bob goes through a recent Substack post (adapted from his book) by Arin Dube, a leading economist pushing for aggressive minimum wage hikes. Bob shows the weaknesses in Dube's results, and gives an alternative measure detailing just how chilling minimum wage hikes may be on teen employment. Related: - https://arindube.substack.com/p/a-minimum-wage-natural-experiment - https://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2014/Murphyminimumwage.html Watch the video version of this episode here: https://youtu.be/VmDrwERlWxc Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/3XXfmGS Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/infineogroup Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/infineogroup Learn more about Infineo at: https://www.infineo.io Audio Production by Podsworth Media - https://podsworth.com