Merry Christmas, Canada.

Yes to a lot of this, but let's remember that there's a lot of value to be had in also prioritizing those who have moved to Canada and learned a skilled trade. Many such workers have higher earning potential than is typical for an average post-secondary graduate, and fill more acute skills shortages

I was disappointed with several elements of The @economist.com recent articles on minimum wages. To their credit, they've published my response. Here are some links to the research I reference and to some other research which had to be cut from the published letter 1/N

#DACA increased high school graduation by 12% for #UndocumentedYouth—and even boosted U.S.-born students’ rates by 4% in LA schools. Briana Ballis found that policy ripple effects are real. #FeaturedArticle doi.org/10.3368/jhr....

Heading south for this conference and just got grilled on minimum wage effects by the US border guard in Calgary who wanted to know the implications of McDonald's workers in the Seattle area starting at over $20/hour. This is going to be a good trip!

BREAKING: In a serious blow to US pandemic flu preparedness, HHS has cancelled a contract with Moderna to test and license prototype vaccines for #H5N1 #birdflu and other potential pandemic viruses. In a pandemic, mRNA is the fastest way to vaccine doses. www.statnews.com/2025/05/28/m...

I heard that as part of a settlement offer, Harvard will give Kristi Noem classes on habeas corpus.

I can't wait for this fantastic conference! What a privilege to join these other authors!

Going to be a great conference!

Great comments from @econmarshall.bsky.social and the @utah.edu econ crowd during my presentation on Monotony Power and the US Social Safety Net. Also, what incredible surroundings for a campus!

RANDOM TARIFF ENCOUNTER TABLE (D8) 1 - 25% 2 - 34% 3 - 10% (but you must buy our chickens) 4 - 49% lovely people but they've been ripping us off 5 - 20% and 2d4 ogres 6 - 31%, roll again on treasure table C 7 - 25% (28% for elves) 8 - Roll again combine both results

Hello, Bluesky #EconSky! We're the Southern Africa Labour & Development Research Unit (SALDRU) at UCT, dedicated to challenging inequalities through policy-relevant academic research. We are one of the leading Labour & Development #Economics units on the continent. Explore our work: saldru.uct.ac.za

I'll just leave this here @mark-carney.bsky.social #cdnpoli

I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012. Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place. A thread.

It's always fun when people talk about your old JMP

Hard to see for recent job market candidates. Postings are also down on other platforms, too, per @johncawley.bsky.social

www.axios.com/2024/12/08/s... 😯😯 This is huge! The Middle East is literally being remade as we 'speak'. And yet American media seems largely focused on a single fatal shooting (an appalling crime, yet entirely normal in America but for the victim's social status)

You can hear me on @npr.org Up First and Morning Edition today talking about why mass deportations don’t lead to more jobs for US born workers *and* will likely increase prices on things like groceries. one.npr.org/i/1217308659...

The really shocking thing I learned is that United Healthcare's insurance division employs 140K people. HHS, which administers Medicare (65M enrollees), CDC, FDA, Obamacare exchange and the federal part of Medicaid (88M), CHIPs, WIC, TANF, only employs 80K.

Hey, look who I just found on here! My favorite economist, @betseystevenson.bsky.social, just discovered BlueSky. Let's make her feel welcome.

This is a really thorough and compelling job market paper from Carl McPherson

Hey #EconSky📉📈 our new working paper with Michael Reich @IRLE is out! Sectoral Wage-Setting in California We provide the first causal evidence of the (highest in the US) $20 minimum wage for large fast-food chains in California, implemented on April 1, 2024. irle.berkeley.edu/publications... 1/7

Very excited to have @mpbitler.bsky.social delivering our 2024 Lansdowne Lecture on “Entitlements, Block Grants, Work Requirements, and the Safety Net: Evidence from the US in Times of Economic Crisis”. Open to the public! Join us in DTB A110 at UVic this Thursday at 7pm.

Can't wait for our excellent session at #ASSA. Hope to see many there from #EconSky. Our slides are available at www.aeaweb.org/conference/2...

A🧵on Ihsaan Bassier's #JMP. Ihsaan is a post-doc at LSE working on labor & development, and on the market this year. He's doing amazing research on labor market institutions, monopsony, inequality. His JMP is very timely: collective bargaining's spillover on non-union sector. 1/

Happy Halloween...

#Econsky Research in Labor Economics will have a special issue on Migration, Human Capital and the Labor Market, with keynote papers from Giovanni Peri & Mette Foged, Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Barry Chiswick, Madeline Zavodny & Pia Orrenius. Submit by October 30 here: legacy.iza.org/rle_applicat...

My mom is asking the questions that we should all be asking ourselves

What we're seeing is a potentially major shift in the American labor market. We saw it with labor market tightness, leading to wage hike at the bottom. Now we're seeing union strength we've not seen in a long time.

Mike Pence should be forced to carry his Presidential campaign to term.

Me, too

Evidence that employer market power is a macro & development issue. @tristany.bsky.social, N. Guner & A Ruggieri www.researchgate.net/profile/Ales...

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