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Akash Bhatt

@akashbhatt8795.bsky.social
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Econ PhD student at UMass Amherst

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Akash Bhatt @akashbhatt8795.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Cool paper and highlights the trade-offs often involved in policy, especially with new employment relationships like in the gig economy. As the author says, the way to actually increase pay for workers is to have barriers to entry (1/4)
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Akash Bhatt @akashbhatt8795.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Very interesting paper on gig work. What does it show? That there is substantial surplus in the gig work relationship and proposed regulation of such work would cause a decline in that surplus. However, I think there is one issue (1/)
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