Arin Dube / Arindrajit Dube

Arin Dube is the labor economist in The real horror of ‘Alien’ and how it explains why we’re not paid enough. The episode identifies him with [[UniversityOfMassachusettsAmherst|UMass Amherst]] and uses his reading of [[AlienFilm|Alien]] to explain how Labor Monopsony can lower wages and weaken working conditions even when workers are not literally trapped on a spaceship.

His book The Wage Standard supplies the episode’s policy and empirical frame. Through Dube, the episode connects Weyland-Yutani to Negative Job Amenities, Compensating Differentials, Shrouded Job Attributes, Labor Search Frictions, Non-Compete Agreements, and Labor Market Counterforces.

Connections

• The Wage Standard - book discussed in the episode.
• [[UniversityOfMassachusettsAmherst|UMass Amherst]] - institutional affiliation in the source.
• Labor Monopsony, Monopsony By Artifice, and Labor Market Counterforces - core labor-market concepts he explains.
• [[AlienFilm|Alien]], Weyland-Yutani, and Planet Money - pop-culture teaching frame.