Thanks for the support @woinactie.bsky.social I and my colleagues deeply appreciate this. www.linkedin.com/posts/arjen-...

@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social just decided to shut down the English-taught BSc in Economics from 2029. The executive board did this entirely in secret, no faculty consultation. We found out after the deal was done. This will have massive consequences for jobs at the dept. @woinactie.bsky.social

Want to leave all this madness behind? We have 2 one way tickets! Grab them before mid may! www.uu.nl/en/organisat... www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

While the likes of Reform, AfD and PVV claim we are in a never ending crisis

My department (Utrecht School of Economics in NL 🇳🇱) is hiring 2 full professors. One in Macro and one in Applied Microeconometrics (don't let the fancy title in the opening fool you). I'm not on either committee, but happy to answer questions. Links 👇. Deadlines in May.

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

The UniCredit Foundation (unicreditgroup.eu) has just launched new contests for research grants:

Still 2 weeks left to apply for this position! #econsky

„Onverantwoord”. Burgemeester Floor Vermeulen van Wageningen (VVD) laat er geen twijfel over bestaan dat hij geen fan is van de voorgenomen bezuinigingen op onderwijs. „Ieder plan dat zorgt dat die bezuinigingen verminderd worden moet serieus genomen worden.”

Next week the Dutch parliament will vote to cut 2 billions on education and research. Some Dutch economists write here that the economic case for these cuts is incomprehensible. Of course they are right. These cuts are only understandable in the context of a vendetta. fd.nl/opinie/15374...

My department at Utrecht University is hiring a Full Professor. We’re considering a wide range of profiles in applied economics with a focus on development & environmental. Application deadline is Dec 15. I’m happy to answer questions. Please share widely! www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

Introducing 2024-2025 Job Market Candidates of Tinbergen Institute! All candidates & their personal websites can be viewed on our website: tinbergen.nl/job-market-c...

📯 Job Market Paper Alert 📯 Private businesses make up 50% of sales & profits and are the main wealth component of the wealthiest households. So, what is their value? Well, that's difficult, since they're not listed: their value is unobservable by definition! My #EconJMP tackles this problem 1/

Hi @khoavuumn.bsky.social , you might like my JMP thread? Thanks for all the great memes! bsky.app/profile/simo...

5 days left to apply! Join our group in Berlin 🟩 quantitative macro with a focus on labor/gender/intergen mobility/growth (if this is not you, check out other positions in @bseberlin.bsky.social) 🟦 3+3 year position 🟪 no teaching obligations and lots of support Happy to answer any questions!

(First) afterthought on the cancelling of our protest #WOinActie. The reason the protest got cancelled was because of alleged threats by a pro-palestinian group that wanted to "hijack" the demonstration and was ready to use violence. >

I put together a quick starter pack of people working on migration economics! Check it out: go.bsky.app/39gHy57 Feel free to nominate yourself or others to add to the list!

#econsky, a methodological question: I need to create an indicator about workers' mental health, based on register data covering prescriptions, diagnoses and doctor contacts. Most of these items are right skewed, with excess zeros. What is a common/best way to do this?

Hi #econsky, my department is on the market for a full professor. The field is broadly applied with a focus on development/gender/migration/environmental. Please help me spread this as widely as possible, and I’m happy to answer questions informally. www.academictransfer.com/en/346598/fu...

Forthcoming in JOLE: "Computers as Stepping Stones? Technological Change and Equality of Labor Market Opportunities" by Melanie Arntz, Cäcilia Lipowski, Guido Neidhöfer, and Ulrich Zierahn-Weilage www.journals.uchicag... #EconSky

hey #econsky and especially #R users, does anyone have a guide for producing good graphs in R that I can forward to my PhD students?

The Dutch university system is facing a severe crisis. The far-right government's actions reveal its vindictive nature but also demonstrate the risks of universities relying solely on government funding for survival. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

New evidence of the impact of COVID-19 on the labor market for immigrant workers in Europe, by Research Associate Francesco Fasani and @jacopomazza.bsky.social, has been published on ILR Review: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I’m teaching a new course next term and I am considering not to make lectures’ slides available to students in advance. Has anyone done the same? Experiences? Would you recommend it?

If you're a senior male economist and would be interested in discussing the drafting of an open letter re the newly announced IZA leadership change, e-mail me. Female econs are rightly tired of the burden of such efforts falling on them.

Today is a good day to not be affiliated with IZA.

My 3 year old son just said that stampot is his favorite food. I need to leave this country before it’s too late.

#econsky help me out, please! I vaguely remember reading here about a paper looking at the impact of WFH on the gender wage gap using German data. Did I dream about it? Cheers!

I’m liking what I see on #bluesky. Maybe wishful thinking, but it feels way more active than Mastodon has ever been. Just one thing though: how do we bookmark stuff in here?

#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...

Hi everyone--with twitter being the bizarre place its become (and the threat that everyone will pay) im going to try and interact more through here. Anyway, Just released my Ukraine war weekend update through substack. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

this tweetdeck-for-bluesky app (called @deck.blue) is slick as hell: deck.blue

Anyone from #EconSky 📉📈 in Prague for the EALE conference? Let me know if you want to grab a coffee and chat about our future on bluesky (or learn about my JMP on the Marriage Earnings Gap)