New market-level variation measures how Brazil's 1993 outsourcing legalization affected employment. Labor market frictions fell, benefitting some workers, but harming others, from Mayara Felix and Michael B. Wong https://www.nber.org/papers/w34172

Gestern berichteten die Tagesthemen über die Arbeitsbedingungen bei Lieferdienst-Plattformen und einen drohenden Warnstreik. Ich durfte kurz für @iabnews.bsky.social zu Wort kommen. www.tagesschau.de/multimedia/s...

Data from West #Germany from the 1960s to 2013 show that the child penalty has increased over time because women are earning more, so the opportunity cost of motherhood has grown. Ulrich Glogowsky, Emanuel Hansen, Dominik Sachs, Holger Lüthen cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

The call for papers for the workshop on "Firm Dynamics, Market Structures and Productivity in the Macroeconomy" closes on 14 April! This year's edition is co-organised by @qmul.ac.uk, @boeresearch.bsky.social, @bristoluni.bsky.social and @kent.ac.uk. Details: sophiepiton.com/papers/2025_...

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... ZHCs are back in the news again. Some thoughts: 1. I wish people would stop calling this a ban. The policy is going to give a right to a regular hour contract, most likely determined by hours worked over a 12 week reference period. A lot of details are.. 1/n

Fünf Jahre schon. #saytheirnames

Sie fühlen sich nicht mehr sicher: Fünf Jahre nach Hanau erzählen migrantische Menschen, wie dieser Tag sie prägt und wie sie auf Deutschland blicken.

✨✨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

Happy to see this paper out @jpube.bsky.social @lukasmergele.bsky.social @aaoritz.bsky.social and I compile new data to study the “Treuhandanstalt” and it’s management of the privatisation process after German reunification

🚨 Updated WP Ever wondered how financial aid - grants vs. loans - impacts students' college major choices? In a revised version of our paper, @adridefax.bsky.social and I provide answers using rich administrative data from Chile (link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....). Here is a summary:

📢 1st IAB Special Lecture of 2025! We’re thrilled to host David Autor at IAB as he presents: “Does automation replace experts or augment expertise? The answer is yes.” 🕑 January 15, 2025, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM CET 🔗 Register here for onsite or online participation: eveeno.com/iab-speciall...

Hello #EconSky! 📢Excited to share my #JMP 📢 It provides a missing piece to understand how people react to income taxation. Tldr: By changing tax pre-payments governments can - with almost no costs - increase perceived work incentives of secondary earners and reduce the gender gap. Thread below👇🧵

#econjmp How do less affluent students respond to student finance induced increases in cost? 🎓Move to full loan policy: ⬇️ enrolment rates of eligible pupils ⚙️Effect driven by ⬆️ costs but also heightened concerns with debt 💰 ⚠️Overall: ⬇️teacher supply + narrowed access to university #econjobmarket

Hello #EconSky 👋 excited to share my JMP! ❓What are the impacts of offering student finance as a grant or a loan? In the paper, I... 🎓 Study individual university enrolment, subject choice & career motivations ❗️Explore aggregate outcomes e.g. access to university & the occupational structure 🧵👇