🚨 #CallforPapers - We are hosting the RFBerlin - @cepr.org Annual Symposium in Labour Economics 2026. 📄 Submit your paper or express interest before January 31st, 2026: cepr.org/events/event...

How do works councils impact worker #productivity? Using the #German case, Steffen Mueller @iwh-halle.bsky.social shows that establishments with a works council are 6.4% more productive and also argues that this figure underestimates the true productivity effect. doi.org/10.1177/0019...

Exogenous variation alert

The perfect choice, congratulations!

A day in my life as a PhD student, recorded by the Sloan marketing team - if you have been dying to know my class schedule, this is your chance! mitsloan.mit.edu/programs/phd...

November 13th at 9:30 AM EST, discover admissions insights and the research opportunities in @mitsloan.bsky.social's PhD Program! Register here: applymitsloan.mit.edu/register/Nov...

Something to keep in mind for the upcoming grad worker collective bargaining round at MIT. We should be optimizing over wages AND employment (incl incoming cohorts).

Join us! @iwh-halle.bsky.social and @uni-magdeburg.de are hiring an AP in Labor Economics! Focus: Effects of AI and new technologies on workers & firms. No German required. Enjoy an outstanding research environment in Magdeburg & Halle – come see for yourself! 🔗 Full ad: tinyurl.com/28ko5wty

📢 We are hiring 📢 RFBerlin is looking for a #ResearchAssistant to support the project on the labor market effects of collective bargaining. Apply now or share with your network: www.rfberlin.com/job/research...

Gerade erschienen - die 𝗪𝗦𝗜-𝗔𝗿𝗯𝗲𝗶𝘁𝘀𝗸𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗳𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘇 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 mit einem Blick auf 2025: Zu verzeichnen ist ein Rückgang gegenüber 2023, doch die Tarifrunden verliefen weiterhin relativ streikintensiv durch Nachwirkungen der Inflationswelle. www.boeckler.de/de/pressemit...

📢Nina Roussille and I are hiring a full-time predoctoral researcher to work with us at MIT on labor economics research projects. IMPORTANT: this vacancy is open right now, so we are particularly interested in people who could start soon. Link to apply: careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...

Political Economy of Work Junior Scholar Workshop to be held at Columbia University December 5-6, 2025.  #EconSky #PoliSky #EconConf Proposal deadline 9/15 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Clever paper using sectoral bargaining wage groups & drift to classify the compensation structure of firms! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Cool new WP by Bernardo Fanfani links 3 major sectoral bargaining agreements to wage data of Veneto (Italy) & finds that changes in union min wages explain 1/3 of the increase in wage inequality 1990-2005 for these workers! I wonder how this would look like in Germany 🤔 docs.iza.org/dp18051.pdf

Today I learned that there is a Stone Center in Munich!

🎓 #Promovieren ist herausfordernd – finanziell, mental und organisatorisch. Wir unterstützen dich mit unserem #Stipendium, damit du dich voll auf deine #Promotion konzentrieren kannst! 📅 Deadline: 2. Nov. 📍 Alle Fachrichtungen 👥 Netzwerk & Unterstützung Jetzt bewerben: www.boeckler.de/stip...#Promovieren

Estimating individual pay premia for 4,800 unions in Brazil, finds substantial heterogeneity across unions. Strikes and internal competition correlate with higher premia, from Ellora Derenoncourt, François Gerard, Lorenzo Lagos, and Claire Montialoux https://www.nber.org/papers/w34139

I am super happy about the IZA network and DP series having found a new home at @liser.lu . Having visited in the past, I think LISER is the kind of place IZA could (and should ) have been. I wish them all the best!

Fantastic news! IZA has a new home #econsky

Society of Labor Economists (SoLE) Annual Conference will be May 1-2, 2026 in Denver, Colorado. Submission portal is now open! Deadline for submissions is October 31--don't forget to submit! It will be a great conference! (organized by me and @jrothst.bsky.social) mailchi.mp/sole-jole/so...

📆 Mark your calendars! 📆 With the publication of "Means of prediction" approaching fast, I'm looking forward to an interesting set of panel discussions and book-talks this fall - I hope to see many of you there! Preliminary schedule of book talks: maxkasy.github.io/home/present...

predoc.org hosts me for an online office hour. If you want to talk about predoc or PhD applications, and in particular about doing economics in non-economic departments, sign up! t.co/AlCicSi0zw #econ_ra

predoc.org hosts me for an online office hour. If you want to talk about predoc or PhD applications, and in particular about doing economics in non-economic departments, sign up! t.co/AlCicSi0zw #econ_ra

Micro evidence on firms' opting out of rigid collective bargaining in Italy finds that opting out reduces wages but increases workers' employment and retention within firms, from Dustmann, Giannetto, Incoronato, Lacava, Pezone, Saggio, and Schoefer https://www.nber.org/papers/w34076

Vienna is pretty high on my list of liveable cities and so it should be on yours... consider applying

10 days left to apply for our workshop on Economics of Ageing and Pensions 👇 📆 Deadline: July 31 💸 Travel and accommodation will be covered

And a big update to the Stata package is also on the way!

Research Assistantship opportunity for Brazilian (or living/studying in Brazil) MA/PhD Economics students. We are hiring a RA to support with empirical work in Economics/Applied Econometrics. Expertise in econometric theory would be a big plus. Apply ASAP! danielegirardi.github.io/posts/RA_cal...

Recently published in @jpube.bsky.social: "Rubbing shoulders: Class segregation in daily activities" By Maxim Massenkoff & @natewilmers.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #econsky

Recently published in @jpube.bsky.social: "Declining earnings inequality, rising income inequality: What explains discordant inequality trends in the United States?" By @zparolin.bsky.social, @lukaslehner.bsky.social, & @natewilmers.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #econsky

Scary stuff

💡New article out on strikes! I draw on interviews with ever inspiring Starbucks union activists and data from the @laboraction.bsky.social to demonstrate how workers and union activists organize different types of strikes in the United States. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Rumeysa is currently in Louisiana at a for profit detention facility holding ICE detainees. Please see the fundraising effort for Rumeysa's immigration case below. If you would be so inclined to share this link, it would be appreciated. 🙏🏼✊🏼👊🏼💪🏼 chuffed.org/project/just...

🚨New Working Paper: The Value of Worker Rights in Collective Bargaining w/ @elliottash.bsky.social , W. Bentley MacLeod & Suresh Naidu We propose novel NLP methods applied to 30,000 collective bargaining agreements to quantify the value of worker rights. 👉 nber.org/papers/w33605 🧵1/7

Wichtige Einordnung mit Fakten, die bei der Berichterstattung zu RBB in den letzten Tagen&Wochen vollkommen verdrängt wurden! archive.ph/zp07Z

Österreichische Politik hält ja immer einige Überraschungen bereit: Der neue Finanzminister ist ein linker Ökonom, Spitzname „Austro-Piketty“. www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/f...

Note to self: Saying 'my friend and co-author' in German will make people believe you're dating your co-author

So sad to see IZA closing! I wish the current staff a smooth transition into new exciting positions elsewhere.

I am hiring a predoc at MIT to start this summer! We will work on various topics in labor economics - unions, minimum wages, imperfect competition, etc. Please apply and share ! #predoc @mitiwer.bsky.social #EconSky apply.interfolio.com/163492

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

The CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey has monitored the wellbeing of America’s high school students since 1991. Since 2015, it’s been a vital source of data on LGBQ youth. In 2023, it provided the first ever nationally representative sample of transgender teens. As of this morning, it’s gone.

New from me and @billgale.bsky.social: Extending Trump's 2017 tax cuts would cost the government a lot of money. How much? We dug into the numbers, and found that allowing these tax cuts to expire would provide enough revenue to keep Social Security solvent - forever. (1/N) 🧵

Nicht einmal Donald Trump in den USA kommt auf die Idee, Amerikaner:innen auszubürgern. CDU/CDU hingegen wollen morgen die Unterscheidung von Deutschen mit und ohne „deutsches Blut“ wieder einführen, und die ohne „deutsches Blut“ ausbürgern können, wann immer es ihnen beliebt.

Trump just fired NLRB Member Gwynne Wilcox. The NLRB now lacks a quorum & can't decide cases. This violates the NLRA, which says Board members can be removed “upon notice and hearing, for neglect of duty or malfeasance in office, but for no other cause.” news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...

I'm at Hertie & DIW in Berlin for the next two weeks and will also spend some time in Bonn & Düsseldorf. If someone wants to grab a coffee & talk about labour econ / unions, send me a message!

How do unions and collective bargaining work around the world? And how do they affect the wage structure? A new paper with Suresh Naidu and Benjamin Schoefer @schoefer.bsky.social out NBER WP today and prepared for the Handbook of Labor Economics. Thread below. 👇

Don't miss this enormous overview of collective bargaining literature and institutions + a model of how unions shape wages applied to 26 countries! My final pre-doc RA'ed project is finally out - including a little preview of something that I've been working on :) www.nber.org/papers/w3326...

I am hiring a predoc to work with me at UC Berkeley. Anticipated start this summer. See here for more info: eml.berkeley.edu/~jrothst/Rot... Please circulate widely! This is a great role for someone considering grad school in the quantitative social sciences. Diverse candidates welcome. #EconSky

So excited to finally share this with the world - our new STATA command 'lpdid' for the local projections diff-in-diff estimator is now available on the SSC. [1/3]