# Professor Arun Sundararajan discusses the impact of minimum wage laws in a feature story on fair pay and the sharing economy

1 Faculty News February 6, 2019 ![Recode logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_047704.jpg?itok=jWIpQ2i2)>

Excerpt from [Recode](https://www.recode.net/2019/2/6/18213872/gig-economy-instacart-tip-theft-contract-workers) -- "'A lot of local governments are likely to be watching how the New York minimum wage experiment plays out,' said [Arun Sundararajan](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/arun-sundararajan), a professor of business at NYU who studies the gig economy. Sundararajan also cautioned that the 'devil is in the details' with rolling out these kinds of regulations."

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