GradFUTURES Forum to highlight professional development for graduate students
Denise Valenti, Office of Communications
April 23, 2021 10:10 a.m.
Photo by Danielle Alio, Office of Communications. Design by Lisa Festa, Center for Career Development.
Princeton University’s Graduate School will host its annual GradFUTURES Forum online from April 26-30, highlighting graduate student professional development and providing mentorship and resources that all master’s students and Ph.D. candidates can use as they explore diverse career opportunities.
The event, which will host more than 60 speakers from across academia and industry sharing their knowledge in 30-plus sessions, is free and open to the public.
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A working paper, as first reported by The New York Times, looks at minimum wage raises at major retailers.
The authors find substantial spillovers from the companies voluntary minimum wage increases.
This includes other firms increasing their wages to the amounts announced at these large companies.
In recent years, big companies like Amazon have publicly increased the minimum wage they pay workers. And it turns out those moves can lead to nearby businesses also bumping up their pay, according to a recent working paper. If a bunch of large employers in the labor market raise pay, other employers are going to be compelled to raise pay a little bit too in order to make sure that they can recruit and retain their workforce, Ben Zipperer, an economist at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, told Insider in March.