These are 10 of my favourite #UrbanEconomics & #SpatialEconomics articles published in academic journals in 2025, continuing with a tradition started in 2018 (order is alphabetical by first author, no ranking implied):

Beautifully written, urgently terrifying. "In towns like mine, outsourcing and automation consumed jobs. Then purpose. Then people. Now the same forces are climbing the economic ladder...If our leaders fail to prepare, the silence that once followed the closing of factory doors will spread..."

@amritakulka.bsky.social and I are looking to hire a full time predoc to work with us on a project on land use regulation and market power in the housing market. If you're interested in (very) big data and applied econ please do apply! #econra #econ_ra econjobmarket.org/positions/12...

Call for Papers for the 2nd Workshop for Early Career Women in Economic Geography and Spatial Economics: www.lse.ac.uk/asset-librar... [Organised by two of my early career colleagues; the first version was great]

Spatial economics JMPs (2025-2026) tradediversion.net/2025/11/27/s...

Very excited to organize one of the 2026 CESifo Venice summer institutes on “𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗔𝗱𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲” jointly with 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝗮 𝗦𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘀. 𝗗𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗱 𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗿 (MIT) and 𝗔𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗹𝘂𝗺 (U Chicago) will join us as keynote speakers. Submit your papers by 𝗝𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟭𝟴: www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/ev...

📣 Call for papers 📣 15th European Meeting of the Urban Economics Association May 8 - 9, 2026 CREI, Barcelona Keynotes by Edward Glaeser and Monika Piazzesi. Please submit your paper by January 9. urbaneconomics.org/meetings/emu...

🔎 Meet our Job Market Candidate: Li Zhang 📑 lizhangecon.github.io/JMP_LiZhang.... 🌐 lizhangecon.github.io 👥 berlinschoolofeconomics.de/job-market/j... @humboldtuni.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @wzb.bsky.social @rfberlin.bsky.social #econjobmarket #jobmarketcandidate

#EconJobMarket💼 Meet Jonas Casper, JM-candidate @econmunich.bsky.social 🎓JMP: Unproductive Exporters 🔍Research topics: International Trade, Spatial Economics 🌐 Website: jonascasper.github.io

📢 5 more days to apply to our AP position in Microeconomics!

We’re excited to host Simon Jäger (Princeton University, @simonjaeger.bsky.social) for the 𝟮𝟳𝘁𝗵 𝗞𝘂𝗿𝘁 𝗪. 𝗥𝗼𝘁𝗵𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝗟𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲: “Varieties of Collective Bargaining: An International Perspective.” December 10, 2025, at @jku.at Details & registration: www.jku.at/kurt-rothsch...

🚨 undergrads and masters students interested in careers in applied econ research: My department is recruiting 4-5 full-time RAs to start summer 2026. See the announcement here for more details: jessiehandbury.com/misc/RAflyer... A few reasons you should apply...

Thanks to everyone for making the 4th @centrefiw.bsky.social workshop @jku-economics.bsky.social a great success again! @ho2604.bsky.social @ineshelmecon.bsky.social @karinmayrdorn.bsky.social

📢 We're hiring! 📢 Two tenure-track positions in empirical micro, no teaching obligations👇👇 econjobmarket.org/positions/11... econjobmarket.org/positions/11... Emphasis: childhood development & indigenous outcomes Come join us in beautiful Melbourne! ‼️𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞: 𝟑𝟎 𝐒𝐞𝐩‼️

📢VACANCY @b-kasberger.bsky.social is hiring a Pre-Doc on his DFG project “Strategic Uncertainty in Market Design.” Candidates are expected to conduct their own research in (applied) micro theory, with an interest in writing a PhD thesis. Deadline: July 9 Details: karriere.jku.at/hcm/jobexcha...

Still time to apply to our 9th Potsdam PhD Workshop in Empirical Economics, incl. a lecture series by Jens Hainmueller (Stanford) + keynote lecture by Amanda Agan (Cornell )! We look forward to applications from PhD students & recent postdocs. 📅 Sep 24-25. ⏳ Deadline: June 30. Further details 👇

PhD position in Labor Economics on AI, Structural change & the Future of Work. A very exciting research group: Uppsala's excellent Labor Econ Environment--integrated with other schools, fields, practitioners, and leading international scholars. Apply now--call is short! uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

📢 One more week to apply for our full professorship position in Labor Economics at JKU Linz! More info 👇.

📢 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...

🚨 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...

💥Research Assistant Positions💥 1. Ingvild Almås, Timo Boppart, Thor Berger, Hannes Malmberg, and I are looking for a research assistant to work on a project which investigates Sweden's spectacular economic growth during the late 19th century using establishment-level data.

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...

🚨PhD position at my Chair for Social Policy & Public Economics @ruhr-uni-bochum.de available. APPLY NOW!!! Deadline: 08 June 2025. Start date flexible: August 2025 or later. 75% TV-L E-13. Please share within your networks. jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/e...

📢 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.

NEW with @simonkuper.bsky.social: The prevailing narrative around increased injuries and player workload in elite football is wrong. Players don’t play any more football than in the past. What has changed is a sharp rise in intensity of play. Not more minutes, but each minute exerts more load.

📢 WE are hiring a Professor in Labor Economics at JKU Linz! Come and join us! We are a young and active department with a strong focus in applied econ. Link: tinyurl.com/jkulabor Please help us spread the word and RT.

I am going to be giving a keynote lecture (online) on April 28 at 12:30 (EDT--New York) with my advice for young economists. Register here for the keynote and get more information about the conference, which looks like a great lineup! sites.google.com/view/amie-4t... @econmentoring.bsky.social

We are hiring! Join us as a Research Officer for the Global Migration Information Hub — a platform for research and knowledge exchange on global migration and public policy. If you’re passionate about migration, data, and communication, we’d love to hear from you. 👉 www.rfberlin.com/job/research...

⚠️‼️Are you interested in migration, migration policy, data, communication? Check out this job opening at @rfberlin.bsky.social 👇👇 www.rfberlin.com/job/research... Looking forward to receiving many applications!

Call for papers for our Montreal meetings now live. Submission deadline 30th May.

Hi #TeachEcon, next week I‘ll teach a hands-on class about AI for literature research and academic writing for undergrads. We‘ll be comparing outputs of different tools. What are tools you think we should be testing? 😊

Applications are now open for the next RFBerlin Handbook Masterclass! Join Arindrajit Dube and Attila Lindner in Berlin on for two days of in-depth teaching on Minimum Wages in the 21st Century. Apply now: www.rfberlin.com/event/rfberl...

Den Beitrag habe ich zusammen mit @ineshelmecon.bsky.social, Ramona Jost, Julia Lang und Christoph Müller geschrieben. Es ist hier zu finden: www.iab-forum.de/app-basierte...

IAB has launched a new starter pack featuring affiliated researchers. Follow this brilliant group for in-depth analysis of the labour market. #EconSky go.bsky.app/CNDFQxn

Researcher (f/m/d) at the research unit Migration and International Labour Studies at the IAB in Nürnberg #Econsky

EALE @eale-office.bsky.social is now on Bluesky. Let’s give it a warm welcome! #EconSky 📉📈

Wegen großer Nachfrage haben wir nun die Rohdaten hinter "So hat Ihre Gemeinde gewählt" www.zeit.de/politik/deut... -> github.com/ZeitOnline/b... und "So hat Ihr Wahlkreis seit 1949 gewählt" www.zeit.de/politik/deut... -> github.com/ZeitOnline/b... auf Github frei zugänglich gemacht.

🎉Congrats to Professor @rjuhasz.bsky.social of the University of British Columbia for winning the 2025 Governor’s Award. Her research focuses on industrial policy and industrialization, emphasizing their importance in economic studies. bit.ly/3DLWm9U #cdnpse #cdnecon @industrialpolicy.bsky.social

Der deutsche Fußball trauert um Doris Fitschen. Die 144-malige Nationalspielerin ist mit 56 Jahren gestorben. 35 Jahre lang hat die viermalige Europameisterin den Fußball der Frauen groß gemacht, auf und neben dem Platz.

Der Deutsche Fußball-Bund trauert um Doris Fitschen. Die ehemalige Nationalspielerin ist nach schwerer Krankheit im Alter von 56 Jahren gestorben.

Edward Leamer, Economist Who Said Economists Were Doing it Wrong, Dies at 80 Preaching humility, he inspired new levels of transparency in economics and other fields Chris Kornelis March 14, 2025 9:00 am www.wsj.com/economy/edwa...

Last chance to submit your Labor paper to the Nottingham GEP workshop (June 16-17) Deadline: *March 15* Info and link 👇

We are very happy to start the RFBerlin Migration Forum with Leah Boustan as our first keynote speaker, presenting “Where are the Streets of Gold? Comparing Immigrant Assimilation in the US and Europe”. #MigrationForum

Kann die neue deutsche Regierung bitte auch den besseren Zugang zu Registerdaten für die Sozialwissenschaften + die Möglichkeit der Verknüpfung von Registerdaten aus verschiedenen Quellen in ihr Regierungsprogramm aufnehmen? 🥹

The new Austrian government has agreed to make virtually all register data available through the Austrian Micro Data Center (AMDC) by July next year 🥳

✨✨Important Updates!✨✨ 2nd Labour Workshop in Nottingham 🎵Amazing Keynotes: @schoefer.bsky.social and Alexandra Roulet 🗺️Where: @uniofnottingham.bsky.social 📆When: 16-17 June Submit by March 15 ➡️shorturl.at/TZqG0

EMERGENCY PODCAST EPISODE Trade Talks is back! Tariffs from the new U.S. President call for an emergency relaunch of the longstanding trade podcast. @aimewilliams.bsky.social joins to explain what happened with Canada, Mexico, and China. tradetalkspodcast.com/podcast/201-...

1/ 🚨 New working paper! 🚨 We investigate a novel determinant of labor market power: a firm's product scope. Do multiproduct firms (MPFs) pay lower wages than single-product firms (SPFs)? A 🧵 on our key findings.

Coming up: WEI 2025 - the popular Workshop in Labor Economics: Wages, Employment and Inequality in Helsinki in August with Magne Mogstad & Stephen Machin as keynote speakers! Submit your paper by 30 March! verotutkimus.fi/en/wei2025/ Organisers:@tuomaskosonen.bsky.social @oskarnskans.bsky.social

Wenn nach dem heutigen Tag Auslandsdeutsche doch wählen wollen und noch nicht im Wählerverzeichnis eingetragen sind: das geht jetzt auch per E-Mail! Frist läuft am Sonntag ab, Link zum Antragsformular: www.bundeswahlleiterin.de/mitteilungen...