New Substack Post. These Republican-leaving States Went Big on Minimum Wages. Here's What Happened to their Restaurant and Retail Jobs.

📣Labour economists, ahoy! Submit your research paper to WEI IV now - the DL is March 30! The workshop has secured an outstanding lineup of speakers: @simonjaeger.bsky.social @lenahensvik.bsky.social Anna Salomons Alexander Willén #wages #employment #inequality verotutkimus.fi/en/wei-2026/

📢New WP: Minimum Wages and Workplace Injuries Using California state and local minimum wage increases 2000-2019, we find minimum wage hikes increase workplace injury rates for low-wage workers. A plausible mechanism is work intensification 🧵 w/ @rjisungpark.bsky.social & Michael Davies

Good article, but blurs the distinction between ESOPs & cooperatives: In both cases workers own their firm, but only cooperatives put workers in control (ESOPs often have voluntary voice mechanisms). ESOP ownership can also be highly dispersed betw. workers. Still, good to see this debate in EU!

📢 PSA for #EconSky & #RStats: The GitHub repo for our Local Projections Difference-in-Differences (LP-DiD) paper now has example scripts for R! If you're looking to implement LP-DiD in R, these are for you Here: github.com/danielegirar... #Econometrics #CausalInference @arindube.bsky.social

🔥 Just accepted for publication at AEJ:Policy 🔥 "Employing the unemployed of Marienthal: Evaluation of a guaranteed job program" maxkasy.github.io/home/files/p...

Useful report from @epi.org on US unionization trends. Interesting to see that US union density actually rose in 2025. Just by 0.1 percentage points, but still, it’s the first time since 2020 that union density has gone up. And even more interesting, 1/ www.epi.org/publication/...

Writing a dissertation? Looking for funding? We have news for you! The Upjohn Institute and the Russell Sage Foundation (@russellsagefdn.bsky.social) are taking applications for grants. To learn more head to RSF’s website: www.russellsage.org/apply/grants... #Econsky #Fundsocsci

Had an amazing time, highly recommend!

Good news against January blues: 🏹 the Nottingham GEP Labour Workshop is back! 🏹 Small in-person workshop; plenty of interactions. Submit your best labo(u)r paper! 🗣️ Gordon Dahl (UCSD) and Anna Stansbury (MIT) 📅 1-2 June 2026 🌍 University of Nottingham Apply by March 1st! ➡️ tinyurl.com/3kdpb64a

JOB! I'm hiring a postdoc for 2 years on my ERC MaMo project. Looking for someone with strong quant methods, ongoing work close to the project's aims, and a desire to publish in sociology. Start flexible in the next 12 months. Formal call out shortly, but contact me first.

I am very much looking forward to the Nottingham Labour Economics workshop this summer! Submissions invited 👇

📢 Call for papers: 1st Annual CEP–IFS Labour Conference London | 15–16 June 2026 We invite labour economics papers on wages & inequality, firm wage-setting, monopsony, unions, worker mobility & place-based policies. Submit by 13 Feb 2026. 🔗 Details & submissions: https://ow.ly/yvGJ50XY3fK

Sectoral bargaining in Chile - not sure whether this bill will be passed & important to note that only some labor standards will be sectoral (not wages, afaik), but still an interesting development!

⏳ Deadline approaching! Reminder to submit your paper to the 38th EALE Annual Conference, Barcelona (31 August - 2 September 2026). 📅 Deadline: 1 Feb 2026 🔗 ub.edu/eale2026/

Jobs jobs jobs #EconJobMarket

Meet Clara Schäper - a talented job market candidate at @diw.de and the @bsoeberlin.bsky.social. Clara is an applied microeconomist working on topics at the intersection of the economics of crime, labor, gender, and family economics. @schaeper-clara.bsky.social #econjobmarket #EconJMP #DIWBerlin

I’m on the #EconJobMarket! I study labor, extreme weather adaptation, and inequality. My JMP addresses an under-studied aspect of the labor market: schedule unpredictability among hourly workers in the service sector. 🧵👇

Join RFBerlin as a Postdoctoral Fellow! ✔️ Leading faculty and global network ✔️ Vibrant group of junior researchers ✔️ Mentoring opportunities ✔️ Research and admin support ✔️ No teaching obligations Apply now: econjobmarket.org/positions/11...

🚨 #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...

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

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