🎬 The TASKS VII Conference #TASKSVII2025 has come to an end. 🤝 The conversations & collaborations sparked in #Luxembourg will continue well beyond today. 🙏 A heartfelt thank you to everyone who joined us — and we look forward to future editions of TASKS! 🔗 Event info: www.liser.lu/events/TASKS...

EDIT: The sky is (still) blue, and (at times) we were too! 😉 Was a pleasure to be back in Esch. Thanks to all presenters for insightful presentations and the organizers for putting up a wonderful program ✌ See you soon!

Hello Luxembourg! The sky is blue and, tomorrow, the regressions too! Looking forward to the TASKS conference at @liser-lm.bsky.social with vibrant discussions at day and a fun time at night 😉 Especially looking forward to reconnecting with many great friends & colleagues in the biz! 😀

Thread of research relying on world-renowned data produced by the Bureau of Labor Statistics Please contribute So much of my own research has used BLS data Growing income inequality in who gets a college education - from NLSY79/97 www.nber.org/system/files...

Germany’s lefties are European, if not world champions in being miserable. Here they are begrudging football fans waving flags.

🎙️ Listen to @dacemoglumit.bsky.social talk about the implications of AI and technological development for labor markets in "Handbook Talks", our podcast series dedicated to the new volumes of the Handbook of Labor Economics.

🆕 Chapter of the Handbook of Labor Economics in our Discussion Paper Series: @dacemoglumit.bsky.social, Fredric Kong, and Pascual Restrepo review recent advances in the task model and show how it can be used to understand recent trends in the labor market. www.rfberlin.com/research/tas...

Powell called out Trump for making stuff up to smear him "I'm not aware of that, Mr President. I haven't heard that from anybody at the Fed. You just added in a third building is what that is. No, it was built five years ago. We finished it five years ago. It's not new."

Das IHS @ihs.ac.at präsentiert am Donnerstag im Rahmen der Mittelfristprognose in einem Sonderkapitel die Effekte der US-Zollpolitik auf die österreichische Wirtschaft, den Euroraum und die US-Wirtschaft. /1

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. 👇

This is a real tweet from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Join us this Friday!

Die @diepressecom.bsky.social versucht den Stimmungsaufheller. Gute Idee.

Re-upping my advice about how to write a good title and abstract for an academic paper, appropriately called: "How to Write a Title and Abstract" Feel free to share this thread, which will focus on titles. #EconSky #AcademicSky

Only one week left to apply 👇 - Minimum gross salary €92,460 (overpayment customary) - Generous leave: 5 weeks paid vacation minimum - High living standards: public transport, healthcare, safety - Access to EU funding, e.g., ERC, Horizon Europe

We are hiring a #postdoc in international economics and/or economic policy at @dice.hhu.de to start in October.

America dominates the rankings of technological strength. But other countries are closing in https://econ.trib.al/sRIkB5E

We are opening three full professor positions in beautiful Innsbruck!

Reminder - submissions to WEEP 3 close this week. Come to Oslo in October 13-14 to present your Ed Econ and Ed Policy research. #econsky Info / submissions here sites.google.com/site/astrids... Keynotes: @cohodes.bsky.social & @woessmann.bsky.social

... cannot replace reforms to improve conditions for research in Europe, such as more funding and more attractive careers. - In my view, the main effect will be fewer European PhDs and post-docs going to the US - they need good conditions to be productive here 2/2

Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.

America is in danger of experiencing an academic brain drain  economist.com/science-and-...

They're terminating OPT. Today the nominee to head USCIS stated directly: he will end Optional Practical Training, the single largest channel for high-skill immigrants to work in the US. 6 weeks ago I warned about this & summarized the research on impacts of this drastic action—> @piie.com

Die Preise an den Tankstellen gehen in Österreich, verglichen mit der Entwicklung beim Rohölpreis, nur langsam zurück. Einschätzungen von IHS-Ökonom @sebikoch.bsky.social im gestrigen #Mittagsjournal. #Inflation oe1.orf.at/player/20250...

“People that already have jobs are relatively insulated... People looking for jobs are facing a much tougher environment.” Thanks to @stephistacey.ft.com at the @financialtimes.com for chatting with me about a tough labor market for recent grads. www.ft.com/content/87a3...

Follow along for a Vienna appreciation 🧵, observing the most mundane of things en route to and from the Wiener Klimarat these past couple of days. Exhibit 1: This apparently is a major interior building renovation. This truck is here to haul away the debris. They even protected the bike path! 🚲😍

Das Interesse an #Weiterbildung hat während der Pandemie und der Energiekrise deutlich abgenommen. Die allgemeine #Arbeitsmarktsituation spielt für die Weiterbildungsentscheidung demnach eine wesentliche Rolle: www.iab-forum.de/in-der-covid...

🇦🇹 Finanzminister Markus Marterbauer wird morgen seine Budgetrede halten - im Zeichen der Budgetsanierung. In meinem Gastkommentar im „Standard“ zeige ich, wie sich das Budget erfolgreich sanieren lässt (anhand von Forschungsergebnissen aus der wissenschaftlichen Fachliteratur). Ein Thread:

Nature paper finds that 2/3rds of warming since 1990 is attributable to the wealthiest 10%, with 1/5th caused by top 1%, and 8% of attributable to top 0.1%. A reminder that policy must address the outsized impact of the world's wealthiest. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪

REMINDER: Less than a week to submit to our Workshop on Field Experiments. Please send your best papers and spread the word 🙂🙏🏻💪🏻🚀 @simonwiederhold.bsky.social @lergetporer.bsky.social @fpeter.bsky.social @ifoeducation.bsky.social @cesifo.org @woessmann.bsky.social @johnlist.bsky.social

🆕🔥 "Multidimensional Skills on LinkedIn Profiles: Measuring Human Capital and the Gender Skill Gap" w/ @profdaviddorn.bsky.social, Florian Schoner, Moritz Seebacher & Lisa Simon 🔗 www.ifo.de/sites/defaul... 🚀Skills from 9M LinkedIn profiles explain important labor-market patterns! 1/🧵

Puh... only Tuesday but I could use some weekend again. I guess I'm not the only one.

"ChatGPT as Economics Tutor: Capabilities and Limitations" econpapers.repec.org/paper/briuob...

Paste your abstract. Get semantically similar economic papers—instantly. No keyword tweaking, no guessing jargon. This is my new RePEc semantic search engine in action. Try it now → econpapers.eduard-bruell.de #EconSky #RePEc

It's one of those things few of us do enough but it really does just make so much sense to tell your fellow researchers when you like their work

Austria appears well prepared to incorporate AI into education.

Im IAB-Forum analysieren wir, warum Gig-Work bei Lieferdienst-Plattformen meist kurzlebig ist. Die Beschäftigten kündigen häufig selbst, weil sie die Arbeitsbedingungen unangenehm und die Entlohnung gering finden. Datengrundlage ist eine repräsentative Befragung. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdhu...

#CallForPapers ➡️ How do institutions shape labor market outcomes? What frictions hinder efficient matching? Join the international IAB workshop "Institutions and Frictions in the Labor market“. Submit your paper by June 1st. More info: iab.de/en/iab-veran... #econsky

Interested in doing a Marie Curie Postdoc at Bocconi? Several of us at the Management and Technology Department welcome expressions of interest (by April 22nd). For me, the general topic would be 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐈𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. More information: www.unibocconi.it/en/horizon-e... (or reach out)

Guess where they got their weird trade deficit math from?

Novel

Nobel Prizes by country and year. The dominance of Germany is striking every time. Before 1933, that is. And the utter dominance of America (and the UK) after 1945.

"When people think of public goods, they most likely think of things like parks or schools. But official statistics are also a kind of public good. They help us understand things like housing prices, the costs of goods and the spread of disease. However, this data infrastructure is under threat..."

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

Unsere Prognose-Ergebnisse im Überblick: Für heuer erwarten wir das dritte Rezessionsjahr in Folge. Im Jahresdurchschnitt dürfte die heimische Wirtschaftsleistung um 0,2 % schrumpfen. Wachstum wird erst für das kommende Jahr erwartet (1,1 %). Alle Details auf unserer Website. #Konjunkturprognose

#BreakingNews: Nach -1% 2023 & -1,2% 2024 geht das BIP 2025 um 0,3% zurück. @gfelbermayr.bsky.social: "Noch nie in der Nachkriegsgeschichte ist 🇦🇹 Volkswirtschaft so lange geschrumpft. Jetzt braucht es mutige Strukturreformen, ansonsten droht eine 'lost decade'." www.wifo.ac.at/news/oester... 1/16

Make sure to apply! I cannot imagine a better place for doing education research.

Unser 1945 Archiv-Projekt gibt es ausnahmsweise auf Deutsch. Teilt es gerne. Es ist großartig. www.economist.com/interactive/...

I love #econsky. They bring facts that tell us what we should be paying attention to Going to be some upset companies it it continues