Trade union membership & collective bargaining coverage have halved since the 1980s across most #OECD countries, while #employer organisation membership remains stable. Explore the trends & challenges 👉 oe.cd/6cz

🪜 Very happy to see @jterrerodavila.bsky.social‘s and my work on income mobility using tax record data from 🇦🇹, 🇧🇪, 🇨🇦, and 🇪🇪covered in the LSE #Inequalities blog @oecdsocial.bsky.social

🪜 Income mobility has been in decline in many OECD countries in recent decades. I am glad that my research with @sebkoenigs.bsky.social on income mobility using tax records features in the LSE International Inequalities Institute blogpost. More harmonized administrative data is needed.

„Paris is particularly ill-adapted to heat waves. A 2023 study published in the London-based medical journal The Lancet deemed it the European capital ​​whose residents were most exposed to heat-related deaths.“ #Paris #climatechange www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/w...

📣 Just released: The @OECD’s Review of Labour Market and Social Policies in #Romania, prepared in the context of Romania’s accession process to OECD. Find out how #Romania compares to OECD countries in the areas of employment, social and migration policy: oe.cd/686

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 students studying #inequality! Check out this online PhD Workshop, scheduled for July 2, 2025. Application deadline is June 8. Call-for-papers link below. Hosted by #ECINEQ. Direct questions to [email protected]. @stone-lis.bsky.social @lisdata.bsky.social sites.google.com/view/phdwork...

Just learned something new. You can buy spurious citations that will show up on Google Scholar -- and people do.

As children’s digital lives evolve, so must our approach to their #WellBeing. Discover the new OECD report that dives into how to empower kids to take advantage of new opportunities online, while protecting them from potential risks. 🔗 oe.cd/622

📣 Just released: The @OECD’s Review of Labour Market and Social Policies in #Bulgaria, prepared in the context of Bulgaria’s accession process to OECD. Find out how Bulgaria compares to OECD countries in the areas of employment, social and migration policy: oe.cd/60u

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/

You will not regret investing these two minutes of attention: Europe at its finest. 🫡🇪🇺🥲 (Sound on!)

📢 Great #internship opportunity in a wonderful team in @oecdsocial.bsky.social for students interested in #affordablehousing, #socialhousing and #homelessness 🏠 🙏 Please circulate and apply! @alibargu.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/mariss...

Rainfall distribution across Europe. London not so bad.

„We find that [future] elites implement more unequal earnings distributions than the average American, are highly sensitive to both merit-based inequality and efficiency costs of redistribution, and are less likely to hold strict meritocratic views.“ #inequality @iza.org www.iza.org/publications...

Striking cleavage in the results of the recent #Paris referendum on further greening the city: 🗳️ 🌳 In the (left-leaning) 10e and 11e arrondissement 83% and 79% of votes in favour of the motion; in the (right-leaning) 7e and 16e arrondissement 66% and 73% against it. www.paris.fr/pages/nouvel...

„In #Paris könnten 500 Straßen autofrei werden. Zigtausend Parkplätze könnten wegfallen – und die Menschen mehr Grün gewinnen: Am Sonntag findet in Paris eine Abstimmung statt, die das Antlitz der Stadt verändern könnte.“ www.spiegel.de/auto/paris-r...

„Mean distance from employee home to employer worksite rose from 15 miles in 2019 to 26 miles in 2023. Twelve percent of employees hired after March 2020 live at least fifty miles from their employers in 2023, triple the pre-pandemic share.“ www.nber.org/papers/w33582

„This paper investigates self-reported wedges between how much people work and how much they want to work, at their current wage. More than two-thirds of full-time workers in German survey data are overworked—actual hours exceed desired hours.“

If you're young and are interested in international development, it is hard to beat doing an ODI Fellowship careers.odi.org/postings/71e... It is a rare opportunity for foreigners to work as a civil servant in a low or lower-middle income country Why is this a good idea? 👇

📢 I am delighted to share that the #OECD ELS Directorate is now active on Bluesky, posting here about our work on #employment, #social, #migration, and #health policy… and of course on #inequality 🌎 @oecdsocial.bsky.social

This morning, @sncf-voyageurs.bsky.social and @alstom.bsky.social finally unveiled the brand-new #TGVM to the public! Let’s take a look inside the latest generation of high-speed trains 🚄🇫🇷 A thread 👇

🌡 New on @ourworldindata.org: We added global temperature anomaly charts *coloured by El Nino / La Nina periods*. Today's "cool" years are warmer than "warm" years of the past. [New article and charts by my colleague Veronika Samborska and I: ourworldindata.org/global-tempe... ]

📣 We are excited to share the launch of LACIR x Oxford Open Economics: Rethinking Inequality in Latin America. The culmination of a multi-year collaboration between over 70 scholars, the papers in this issue ask: why does inequality endure? And what forces sustain it? 🔗 buff.ly/661Df1W

Less income #inequality between #EU states is driven by labour incomes in lower-income countries. A more centralised fiscal framework can play a crucial role in shaping EU-wide inequality. @stefanofilauro.bsky.social @zparolin.bsky.social @pietrovaletto.bsky.social cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

“Getlink believes it is possible for train services to Bordeaux, Cologne, Frankfurt, Geneva, Marseille and Zurich to be created.” www.bbc.com/news/article...

Nearly one in 10 adults in the U.S. identifies as LGBTQ, according to a large analysis from Gallup released Thursday — almost triple the share since Gallup began counting in 2012, and up by two-thirds since 2020. nyti.ms/42ZZGIN

Another quite depressing read about the decline of manufacturing in Germany. 🇩🇪 “Together, Dax constituents Volkswagen, Thyssenkrupp and BASF have lost €50bn, or 34 per cent, in market capitalisation over the past five years.” on.ft.com/42WxkPH

“The IMF estimates that Europe’s internal barriers are equivalent to a tariff of 45% for manufacturing and 110% for services. These effectively shrink the market in which European companies operate: trade across EU countries is less than half the level of trade across US states.” on.ft.com/4jVU4Fx

Striking figures by the @nytimes.com on the growing disparities between economic growth and different metrics of well-being in the U.S. relative to other advanced economies www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/b...

Explaining why the Nordic countries have such low income inequality and discussing the lessons, if any, for other countries, from Magne Mogstad, Kjell G. Salvanes, and Gaute Torsvik https://www.nber.org/papers/w33444

More exposure to working mothers during middle/high school greatly reduces girls' child penalties when they grow up. Exposure to working fathers has the opposite effect. H Kleven @princetonecon.bsky.social, G Olivero & E Patacchini @cornelluniversity.bsky.social cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

Pneumatic tubes for message delivery in BNF Richelieu (National French Library) #paris #library #pneumatictubes #pneumatic #urbanism #15minutecity #books #biblioteque

Interesting FT article about the declining response rate to the UK LFS #EconSky h/t @jterrerodavila.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/dd55...

Striking assessment by Tyler Cowen of #OpenAI’s Deep Research: “I think of the quality as comparable to having a good PhD-level research assistant, and sending that person away with a task for a week or two, or maybe more.” marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...

📢 Call for papers for an #inequalities conference organised by @lseinequalities.bsky.social for the 10th anniversary of the LSE/III in London in September #EconSky #EconConf acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:...

„Creative destruction is rarely comfortable, but it is required in #Germany. A state that is more trusting of markets, as well as the new industries they create, and less keen to dole out subsidies for the old, would help the process along. Ministers would also be wise to lift spending […].“

The upper parts of #Montmartre around Sacré-Cœur are going to be closed for through-traffic by cars. #Paris www.paris.fr/pages/la-but...

Ungleichheit bei der Arbeit im Haushalt: Männer überschätzen oft ihren Beitrag und sind der Meinung, dass sie sich die Aufgaben gerecht mit ihrer Partnerin teilen. Doch unsere aktuelle Umfrage zeigt ein anderes Bild und das hat ernsthafte Folgen für die Chancen von Frauen auf dem #Arbeitsmarkt. (bu)

With Lagarde joining, all Presidents of major EU institutions are now on Bluesky: EUCO: @eucopresident.consilium.europa.eu Commission: @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu Parliament: @president.europarl.europa.eu ECB: @president.ecb.europa.eu All set for a new Four Presidents' Report 🇪🇺

The Fog, Cologne Edition

The time of starter packs has almost faded, but as more and more European Think Tanks are arriving with their official accounts, I put together a starter pack of them: go.bsky.app/8Ra8RjU Likely missed a few - especially from CEE and Northern Europe - so further suggestions welcome!

Welcome to to Bsky, LIS! #EconSky #inequality

The world has passed "peak child". This was a term coined by the late Hans Rosling, and the most recent data suggests that the world has reached it: the number of children has stopped growing. My data insight on @ourworldindata.org today: ourworldindata.org/data-insight...

If you’re interested in better cities but haven’t read much about it, here are some starter books I’d recommend: Walkable City by @jeffspeck.bsky.social Human Transit (new edition) by @humantransit.bsky.social Road to Nowhere by @parismarx.com Curbing Traffic by @modacitylife.com #UrbanismBookClub

The German federal election is fast approaching. Perhaps this starter pack of mine is of interest to all those who want to follow some of the best experts on German politics. go.bsky.app/3ro62Hz

„From the 🇺🇸 , 🇫🇮 and 🇰🇷 to 🇹🇷 , 🇹🇳 and 🇹🇭 , falling birth rates are increasingly downstream of a relationship recession among young adults. Baby bonuses put the cart before the horse when a growing share of people are without a partner.“ by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social on.ft.com/4fWosfH

If you’re in Paris in February and passionate about #socialpolicy, consider attending our #OECD High-Level Forum. Discussions on new frontiers for SP, from managing demographic shifts to adapting to the digital and green transitions. #EconConf 🗓️ 13 February 2025 🔗 Register here: t.co/MRKxQq1GhL

Excellent visualization of a dreadful set of facts.