🚨 #CallForPapers We invite submissions to the RFBerlin Migration Forum. 🗓️ Deadline: 2 Nov 2025. Submit your work now and share with colleagues! #MigrationForum2026 app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/79526...

In January 2026 the excellent Perspectives on (Un-)Employment PhD Workshop is taking place, organised by @iabnews.bsky.social & @fauwiso.bsky.social 🏗️ Keynotes: Paula England & David Dorn 💡 Deadline: 30 September 2025 Aimed at: PhD Students in economics & sociology More info: shorturl.at/jATG3

We’re thrilled to host Ulrike Malmendier at IAB for our next Special Lecture. Join us onsite or online to hear about her fascinating work. 🕑 September 16, 2025 | 1:00–2:30 PM CET 🔗 Register here to receive an onsite ticket or MS Teams link: eveeno.com/iab-speciall...

State of the tech job market halfway through 2025? Still stagnant, still not much better than the last 2.5 yrs. Tech employment has dropped modestly from its Dec 2022 peak, falling 1.9%, or 76,000 jobs, with no improvement in 2025, despite the hype around AI + data center investment. 1/

Look at what happens to male teacher salaries (blue line) v.s. female teacher salaries (red line) after collective bargaining laws expire.

🚨🚨🚨 NEW WORKING PAPER: "The Benefits of UI for Marginally Attached Workers" with Brendan Moore ➡️ We find that UI minimally delays re-employment, but substantially improves labor market outcomes for low-income workers 🧵1/13

Good news for the WPNBA! They've called in a Nobel prize winning economist who is a Harvard professor. She is working for them for free on the CBA negotiation. She agrees with the players so far and is calling BullShit on the owners. 🏀😺 #WNBASKY #WNBA www.sportico.com/leagues/bask...

Gestern berichteten die Tagesthemen über die Arbeitsbedingungen bei Lieferdienst-Plattformen und einen drohenden Warnstreik. Ich durfte kurz für @iabnews.bsky.social zu Wort kommen. www.tagesschau.de/multimedia/s...

Very excited that our paper (joint with Jarkko Harju and ‪@schoefer.bsky.social‬) on "Voice at Work" is published in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. We study what happened when workers in Finnish firms got a right to worker voice on the corporate board. 👇

Have you considered using LLMs to code open-ended survey responses? This looks like a must read for you! "An Empirical Investigation into the Utility of Large Language Models in Open-Ended Survey Data Categorization" osf.io/preprints/so...

𝐏𝐲𝐅𝐢𝐱𝐞𝐬𝐭 0.30.1 is on 𝐏𝐲𝐏𝐢 and I am extremely happy with this release, mostly because of two 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬: a Rust back end for all performance critical parts and quantile regression.

That awkward thing where you write an annual report called 'Low Pay Britain' but 'low pay' has been all but eliminated (on the standard hourly pay < 2/3 median measure). (Our 2025 Low Pay Britain report is out on Thursday, launch event here www.resolutionfoundation.org/events/new-d... )

A pair of similar Black and White workers do not earn the same amount at their next employer, from Isaac Sorkin https://www.nber.org/papers/w33946

On this day in 1953, around 1 million people in East Germany took to the streets to protest against the regime. The largely peaceful uprising was violently suppressed. West Germany celebrated the 1953 uprising as a public holiday until German Unity in 1990.

72 years ago today, brave men and women in East Germany took to the streets to stand up against the Soviet-sponsored socialist dictatorship of the SED-party. Their resistance was crushed by Russian tanks. But their legacy lived on and history proves that freedom will prevail!

Only 5 days left to apply for our postdoc position in labor economics at @iabnews.bsky.social. #econsky

Gerne Weiterleiten: Promotionsstelle ab Herbst 2025 in meinem DFG-Projekt zu In-Work Benefits und Aufstockern im SGB II. Im schönen Wiesbaden am Bundesinstitut für Bevölkerungsforschung: www.bib.bund.de/DE/Institut/...

Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "Nonbinary and Transgender Identities and Earnings: Evidence from a National Census" by Christopher S. Carpenter, Donn Feir, Krishna Pendakur, and Casey Warman. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

📣 Kommt digital vorbei und schaut, welche Daten für die #Forschung bei uns auf euch warten!

📢 Just released: First results of our new large-scale longitudinal survey IMPa on return and onward migration in Germany. 50,000+ participants in wave 1 (Dec 2024–Apr 2025). 📄 Full report (in German): doku.iab.de/forschungsbe... 📘 English version coming soon — stay tuned!

Hop on, ride off! 🚆🚲 As of today, bikes are welcome on-board of EU trains. All new and upgraded trains in the EU will have dedicated spots for full-sized bicycles. So, you can ride wherever the train takes you!

THIS IS AMAZING! Researchers have made a SIGNIFICANT breakthrough in the quest for an HIV cure. By developing a method that enables the delivery of an mRNA-based therapy to make the virus VISIBLE WITHIN white blood cells, this approach paves the way to FULLY CLEAR the virus from the body. 🧪🧵⬇️

🆕 RFBerlin-CReAM Discussion Paper: Felix Degenhardt and @jnimczik.bsky.social examine whether gig jobs in online food delivery (OFD) are a stepping stone for refugees entering the Austrian labor market. 🧵

A new study by Albrecht Glitz (Project Leader at RFBerlin), Susanne Kohaut and Iris Möller based on @iabnews.bsky.social data shows that 9% of all businesses in Germany have fallen victim to an espionage attack in the past five years.

📢 Come work with us! 🏛️ Faculty of Economics & Statistics, UIBK @econstatuibk.bsky.social‬ @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social‬ ‼️ Three job openings for Full Professor positions - Data Science - Microeconomics - Behavioral Economics Please share! #datascience #economics www.uibk.ac.at/de/info-beru...

New updated slides deck about Local Projections Difference-in-Differences (LP-DiD) LP-DiD is a fast and simple to implement regression-based framework for estimating DiD, which can reproduce popular recent estimators as specific instances. danielegirardi.github.io/posts/docume...

I’m so fucking here for this breakup

Updated my "computational resources" page: maxkasy.github.io/home/computa... Added resources for Python: - Polars for data wrangling & large data sets - Vega-Altair for data visualization - GreatTables for table formatting and exporting - Scikit-Learn for supervised learning

💼 Der Anteil der Teilzeitbeschäftigten stieg im ersten Quartal 2025 auf 39,8 Prozent. „Die #Teilzeitquote liegt 2025 auf Rekordniveau – aber genauso die Arbeitszeit von Teilzeitbeschäftigten“, erklärt IAB-Ökonom Enzo Weber. Zur #IABArbeitszeitrechnung geht es hier 👉 iab.de/daten/iab-ar...

Good morning. It is now 12:01 AM, which means tariffs on nearly all steel & aluminum have been raised to 50%. That includes an increase in the tariffs on steel & aluminum content in derivatives, plus a new tariff on derivatives' non-metal content based on country-level tariffs

🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 🚨 -- 1st Aarhus Workshop on Labor Markets -- We welcome empirical and structural work with applications on labor market dynamics, policies, and outcomes. 📍Where? Aarhus University, Denmark 📆 When? 22/10 - 24/10 ⏰ Deadline: 22/8 Submit: app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/78820...

We're hiring a postdoc in labor economics at IAB Nuremberg! Join @ineshelmecon.bsky.social, @jnimczik.bsky.social & me on a project about gig work. 🗓️ Start: 1 Oct 25 💶 Salary ≥ €5200/month
 🌱 Possibility to apply for tenure track program Apply here until 17 June: econjobmarket.org/positions/11...

Good chart. on.ft.com/3FgBiJC Dollar’s correlation with Treasury yields breaks down

🌈 Be sure to join us next Thursday for the last session in our 2024-2025 programme! @laiabalcells.bsky.social will showcase her super interesting experimental work linking anti-LGBTQ+ repression to present attitudes in Spain. 📆 Mark your calendars!

📢 We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Employment Research (@iabnews.bsky.social) for our research project on the gig economy! #EconSky Link: econjobmarket.org/positions/11... start date: October 2025 Some German knowledge is required.

before and after today’s glacier collapse that buried 90% of blatten, switzerland

We normally love a bit of doom and gloom... ... but healthier longer lives and more women working for longer means advanced economies have seen a big growth in average working lives ... exactly what was not expected in 2000 on.ft.com/4dzBXCo

⚠️ #Rechtsextremismus als Standortrisiko? Die IAB-Forscherin Tanja Buch hat die Auswirkungen von Fremdenfeindlichkeit auf die #Arbeitsmigration untersucht. Im Podcast des Mediendienst Integration berichtet sie über die Ergebnisse der Studie: mediendienst-integration.de/artikel/rech... #econsky

📣CALL FOR PAPERS 📣 Workshop on the economics of ageing and pensions tinyurl.com/2wez4wp7 Where? Berlin @wzb.bsky.social 🐻 When? November 20-21 November 🍂 For whom? Researchers at all stages in their career Anything else? Accomodation & travel cost will be covered 🚅🏨 Please circulate!

A new method to estimate treatment effects on long-term outcomes that uses intermediate outcomes to correct for selection bias, relaxes assumptions of popular surrogate estimators, from Susan Athey, Raj Chetty, and Guido Imbens https://www.nber.org/papers/w33817

Did you know that the COVID-19 pandemic caused ⚡⚡⚡ lighting ⚡⚡⚡ strikes to decline a lot across the globe? Why? Less travel ➡️ fewer anthropogenic aerosols in the air ➡️ fewer clouds ➡️ less lightning. So when the world paused during the pandemic, storms got notably less intense. Cool, eh?

🤖 Software discovery of the week 🤖 I just started using Polars for datawrangling in Python, and am really impressed how fast it is when handling large datasets (orders of magnitude faster than Pandas). Also, the syntax feels very natural, coming from dplyr in R: pola.rs

How economics has changed

Data from West #Germany from the 1960s to 2013 show that the child penalty has increased over time because women are earning more, so the opportunity cost of motherhood has grown. Ulrich Glogowsky, Emanuel Hansen, Dominik Sachs, Holger Lüthen cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

🧪 Detailed data viz NYT article, out today, on the extent of funding cuts at the National Science Foundation. This "broken pie chart" is neat & new to me: Powerfully shows the slowdown in new NSF awards across areas. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Data on firm relocations reveal that nearly all wage differences between cities stem from the spatial sorting of workers and firms; Location-specific factors explain only 2–5 percent, from Pauline Carry, Benny Kleinman, and Elio Nimier-David https://www.nber.org/papers/w33779

Universal Pre-K led to a 1.2% rise in labor force participation, a 1.5% increase in employment, and a 1.6% growth in hours worked according to important new research by @kirabojackson.bsky.social, @julia-turner.bsky.social & @jacobbastian.bsky.social. www.nber.org/papers/w33767

🚨 REPLICATION REPORT UPDATE: One year ago, a tweet by John Holbein alerted me, @ollefolke.bsky.social, and @jopieboy.bsky.social to a paper with a shocking result about Sweden’s law criminalizing the purchase of sex.🧵

Vor dem Haus in der Skalitzer Straße 32 in #Kreuzberg liegen heute Abend Blumen. Hier lebte Margot #Friedländer mit ihrer Mutter und ihrem Bruder - bis 1943 die Gestapo kam. Auguste und Ralph starben in Auschwitz. Margot überlebte - im Untergrund, später Theresienstadt.

Big news 👇 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...