🚨 Our new investigation out today reveals how thousands of people who've taken their bosses to employment tribunals & won, never got paid, even after they approached the government for help. This has serious implications for the Employment rights bill. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

🚨I4R is looking to hire postdoc fellows in public health and computer science! The postdoc will join a team of researchers and help mass reproduce studies in leading public health journals or develop AI replicator agents. Info 👇

🎉 IWH-Ökonom @patricknuess.bsky.social erhielt den Elinor-Ostrom-Preis der #GSÖBW für seine Dissertation „Essays on Management Opposition and Unionization“, dotiert mit 3000 €, gefördert von der Canopus Foundation. 👉 soziooekonomie-bildung.eu/ueber-die-gs... Herzlichen Glückwunsch dem Preisträger 👏

Could anyone share examples of well-designed and practical LaTeX presentations that are suitable for lecture slides? I am looking for some inspiration. #TeachEcon

Few things make an interdisciplinary social scientist happier than recognition from an interdisciplinary committee. My dissertation received the Elinor-Ostrom Prize for Socioeconomic Education and Research.🏆 #GSÖBW

All types of JOE openings to date in 2025, down 30% from last year. U.S. full time academic tenure track, down 40%.

Check out this scatterplot of health spending per capita (x axis) & life expectancy (y axis) in OECD countries (lines = averages). The United States sits alone in the bottom right area due to its very high spending rate and below-average life expectancy. More www.oecd.org/en/publicati... 🧪

Looking back to a wonderful 4th edition of our Workshop on Field Experiments earlier this week – what an amazing crowd 😍 Thank you all for coming and making this event possible – special shoutout to our keynotes, Ulrike Malmendier & Noam Yuchtman 🙏 To a 5th edition in 2026! 🚀

Announced my UCL visit… 2 minutes later a union demo marched past my office. I swear I had nothing to do with it. 😂

I am excited to spend this Fall in London at UCL/@sriucl.bsky.social. I already had the chance to provide first insights into Captured by Conflict. I love this place! They have a monthly coffee RCT, randomly pairing people up for chats. Worse places to be for a coffee loving experimentalist.

🚨Just one week left to apply!🚨 Exciting opportunity to work on EU economic policy issues at @etui.bsky.social in Brussels.👇 Don't miss it - the window closes this weekend. #econsky

🎓 #Promovieren ist herausfordernd – finanziell, mental und organisatorisch. Wir unterstützen dich mit unserem #Stipendium, damit du dich voll auf deine #Promotion konzentrieren kannst! 📅 Deadline: 2. Nov. 📍 Alle Fachrichtungen 👥 Netzwerk & Unterstützung Jetzt bewerben: www.boeckler.de/stip...#Promovieren

every new draft i write feels like betrayal to the simplicity of my first idea which was wrong but pure

🚨 New post-doc opportunity at TCRU! @susiebowerbrown.bsky.social is recruiting a Quantitative Research Fellow (0.5 FTE, 15 months) for the ESRC-funded Family Beyond the Binary project, exploring non-binary families in the UK. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Apply by 21 Aug 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... @sriucl.bsky.social

Last day to register for our BENA Skills Camp in September in Berlin! #EconSky #EconConf #dataSkyence #CausalSky

Javier Ramirez—executive manager of the National Conflict Resolution Service at #CornellILR's Scheinman Institute—spoke with @poweratwork.bsky.social about the future of labor mediation after the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service shutdown, explaining the critical role labor mediators play.

[email protected] & IfW Kiel are jointly 🚨 recruiting a Professor of International Economics🚨 (Associate/Full). 👉 apply.interfolio.com/169770 Great opportunity to join Berlin's thriving econ community. No kings here. Deadline: Sep 30, 2025 Please share widely! #EconSky

New from @arindube.bsky.social and me: the minimum wage own-wage elasticity repository, an online collection of estimates of employment responses to minimum wage changes. In contrast to a lot of “sky is falling” scenarios, most studies estimate small negative or positive employment effects.

The person you knew in grad school who was never broke, never unsupported, and never rejected is now an academic authority on grit

From the archives: Arrow's rec letter for Maskin (to Peter Diamond): the question is not whether Maskin is suited to MIT, but whether MIT is suited to Maskin

Call for Papers: Workshop “Allocation & Distribution” Nov 14–15, 2025, Hamburg. Theoretical, empirical, and experimental contributions on health economics (inequality, incentives, risk, and more). Submit by August 31: www.hche.uni-hamburg.de/en/veranstal... Please share with anyone interested.

Top 5 des #Unionbusting: Statt demokratischer Teilhabe im Betrieb, wollen zu viele Arbeitgeber nach Gutsherrenart verfahren. Laut einer Befragung des WSI wird rund jede fünfte Gründung eines Betriebsrates behindert. Betriebsräten muss der Rücken gestärkt werden. 👉 niedersachsen.dgb.de/-/GLCh

Interview in @lemonde.fr about the structural shifts challenging the 🇩🇪 model of industrial relations. If you’re interested, please check the link below. Thanks to @cecileboutelet.bsky.social for the conversation! Follow her for a new perspective on the 🇩🇪 economy. www.lemonde.fr/economie/art...

🎉 Congratulations to IWH economist @patricknuess.bsky.social who deserved an honourable mention for his dissertation "Essays on Management Opposition and Unionization" in the 𝗧𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘀 𝗔. 𝗞𝗼𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻 & 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗥. 𝗦𝗹𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗵 𝗕𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 competition by the Labor and Employment Relations Association.🥇

EXTREMELY BAD NEWS for economic research, per former BLS Commissioner @ericagroshen.bsky.social on LinkedIn. BLS is suspending access to its restricted data "for the forseeable future." Applies to projects through the Federal Statistical Research Data Centers & onsite projects with BLS. #EconSky

Applied for an AP position in fall 2023. I got the rejection email in May 2025. They’ve “narrowed down their search.” At this pace, I assume tenure decisions arrive by retirement. 😄

For those who teach Behavioral Econ, what textbook/s do you use? #econsky

Es gibt, wenig überraschend, sehr wenig postdoc stellen aktuell die zu mir passen und die Zeit läuft ab. Helft ihr mir zu brainstormen, welche Art Job es überhaupt außerhalb der Wissenschaft für einen promovierten Psychologen geben könnte (sie sollten bezahlt sein, PT Ausbildung fällt also aus)?

BeNA is on Bluesky! Since 2004, we’ve been connecting early-career labor economists in and around #Berlin. Follow us to stay up to date with the network and our events! #BeNA #laborEcon #econsky

Are you a PhD student or Postdoc working on topics in Empirical Economics? Please apply to our 9th Potsdam PhD Workshop 👇 ⏰ Deadline to apply: June 30, 2025.

👋Jetzt bewerben: Wir bieten zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt am Standort Essen eine Praktikumsstelle in unserer Forschungsgruppe „Prosoziales Verhalten“. Forsche zu nachhaltigem Verhalten, Klimapolitik & Spendenverhalten mit Feldexperimenten & Haushaltsbefragungen. 👉 www.rwi-essen.de/fileadmin/us...

❓How does stereotype salience affect confidence in financial literacy? Julia Peter (@uni-jena.de) and I address this question in our new working paper: “Stereotypes, financial literacy, and confidence: An information provision experiment” ideas.repec.org/p/jrp/jrpwrp...

Das war er ‒ der 20. IWH/IAB-Workshop zur Arbeitsmarktpolitik: Arbeitskräfteknappheit und Arbeitsmarktinstitutionen. Mit spannenden Präsentationen, regem Austausch und gelungener Keynote von @schoefer.bsky.social. Danke an alle Beteiligten, Gäste und unseren Mitstreiter @iabnews.bsky.social.

Job alert! We're now accepting applications for a Postdoc Research Fellow who will work with restricted and hard-to-access data related to the sources of class-based income #inequality on cutting-edge research topics. Apply by June 15! 👇 myumi.ch/155qg #academicjobmarket #nowhiring #academicsky

Have rejected my own proposal for peace talks "without preconditions", proving Ukraine wants war.

We did not want to start the week like this, but here we are. Yet again our chair’s inbox is filled with messages from replicators who have opened “replication” folders only to find names, Social Insurance Numbers, mental-health diagnoses and incomes of study participants. 🧵

When and how do bright kids from poor backgrounds fall behind? Everyone should read this paper by @johnjerrim.bsky.social & Maria Palma Carvajal: great data, corrects past work, nails the method, and is super readable. doi.org/10.1016/j.rs...

In der morgigen Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung spreche ich mit Stefanie Diemand über den Koalitionsvertrag und die wirtschafts- und arbeitsmarktpolitischen Herausforderungen der neuen Bundesregierung, u.a. Sondervermögen, Wochenarbeitszeit, Steuerbefreiung für Überstunden und Mindestlohn.

A re-analysis of Ciacci's (2024) "Banning the purchase of sex increases cases of rape: Evidence from Sweden" Journal of Population Economics reveals major issues. A year ago, reproducers Adema, Folke, and Rickne found coding errors driving the paper's key results. Let's unpack this in a 🧵

🚨 PhD and Post Doc positions incoming 🚨 Received 3 million Euros from WASP-HS for an interdisciplinary (Econ, Sociology, Business) research cluster on AI, Structural Change and the Future of Work. PhD call coming very soon - start Jan 2026, fully funded in an amazing research team w fantastic data!

Spielchen spielen. Sind ja auch normale Zeiten. Was für Vollpfosten!

📢 Save the date! The 4th Kiel-CEPR Conference on Geoeconomics takes place this October—this time in Paris 🇫🇷. Thanks to #ScPoEcon @sciencespo.bsky.social for hosting—it’s going to be another great one! 📜 Call for papers coming soon. Stay tuned for more info 👉 www.ifw-kiel.de/institute/ev...

Trump is a master at using pro-worker rhetoric while stabbing working people in the back. HERE ARE 100 WAYS TRUMP HAS HURT WORKERS IN HIS FIRST 100 DAYS IN OFFICE. (For the record, we had to *trim* the list to get it down to 100.) www.epi.org/press/new-re...

Congratulations to Stefanie Stantcheva (@s-stantcheva.bsky.social) of @harvard.edu, winner of the 2025 John Bates Clark Medal! #econsky www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/ho...

We’re excited to introduce the Swedish Municipal Council Database! This open-access resource contains our hand-coded data for all local politicians in Sweden's democratic local elections between 1919 and 2018. A 🧵 Co-authors 🤩 @abrarbawati.bsky.social, @josefinemagnusson.bsky.social Moa Frödin

I am so excited for the first #FMM conference on Gendering Macroeconomics! Please submit your papers and distribute the call widely, we have an amazing line-up of macroeconomists working on gender ☺️

Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

"Within minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in ... Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created DOGE accounts — and the person had the correct username and password"

Making Sense of Diverging Trends in Personal and Household Income Inequality: New findings from Zachary Parolin, @lukaslehner.bsky.social & @mitiwer.bsky.social's @natewilmers.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/264pe64r

💡New article out on strikes! I draw on interviews with ever inspiring Starbucks union activists and data from the @laboraction.bsky.social to demonstrate how workers and union activists organize different types of strikes in the United States. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....