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CVS's acquisition of Target's retail pharmacy business reduced pay, especially for low-wage workers. Just Accepted new paper by Enas Farag, Alaa Abdelfattah, Chris Compton, Anna Stansbury @annastansbury.bsky.social and Marshall Steinbaum @econmarshall.bsky.social zurl.co/NvgSz
🆕Our new research will explore how thinking spatially about the minimum wage can help labour market policy to function in the UK’s diverse economic geography.
Book your place at our launch event with @annastansbury.bsky.social and @nyecominetti.bsky.social👇
buff.ly/udhRimx
Here’s the chart on university subject segregation
Streaming now! Link below.
The UK national minimum wage is heading to 2/3 of median
B/c of the UK’s very unequal economic geography, this means its bite is very high in many parts of the UK
How should we think about this?
They speculate that as families and societies get richer, children socialize more through structured activities (clubs/hobbies) rather than with neighbors/family, and this ends up being more gender segregated
And this in turn might impact what subjects people choose to study
