When states like Colorado passed policies requiring employers to disclose salary information in job postings, what happened? It increased competition, and raised wages, without harming employment or changing skill requirements. Improved functioning of markets, helped workers.

"Wir haben praktisch alles geklärt", sagt Wirtschaftsminister Guy Parmelin in #Washington nach seinem Gespräch mit dem Handelsbeauftragten von US-Präsident Donald #Trump, Jamieson Greer, gegenüber #SRF: "Wir hatten ein sehr gutes Gespräch". (1/3)

We are not ready for what's coming... 29.8°C in France mid November! 😱 These heat levels are just insane...🥵 Map via @sergezaka.bsky.social

Fahrt mit autonom steuerndem Auto durch Shenzhen (25 Mio Einwohner). Abbiegen, Überholen, Einparken, alles hands-off. Unternehmensvertreter: „Ihr müsst euch klar machen, dass diese Technologie bereits voll entwickelt ist. Es fehlt nur noch die gesetzliche Regulierung.“ Die nächste Disruption kommt.

"One obvious idea is for men to grow up, do more housework, behave more responsibly and so turn themselves into more desirable partners." www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

Die Aufregung um den SBB-Auftrag an Siemens verstehe ich nicht. Es ist umgekehrt völlig normal und erfreulich, dass Stadler in Deutschland Aufträge erhält: 1️⃣Aktuell liefert Stadler 44 Triebzüge an DB Regio Südwest 2️⃣ DB Regio Thüringen hat kürzlich 19 Triebzüge bestellt 1/3

🆕Working Paper🚨 Training or Retiring? How Labor Markets Adjust to Trade and Technology Shocks📒 w/ A.Bertermann, @dauthecon.bsky.social & @suedekum.bsky.social 🤖 Robots ➡️ ⬆️training & ⬆️early retirement 🌏 Imports ➡️ ⬇️training & ⬆️early r. 🌎 Exports ➡️ ⬆️training & ⬇️e.r. www.ifo.de/DocDL/cesifo... 🧵1/9

🚨Postdoc position in public economics🚨 Four-year postdoc at @heclausanne.bsky.social, funded through @snsf.ch project "The Economics of Inheritance and Inter-Vivos Gifts". Application deadline: 30 December. #econsky @unil.bsky.social @eyquem2.bsky.social @izmartinez86.bsky.social bit.ly/4qWyG6G

Switzerland 🇨🇭 is the most reputable country in 2025. US 🇺🇸 in free fall. Germany 🇩🇪 ranks 20th. Source: Survey in G7 countries, N=62'000

I would install each and all of them #AcademicChatter

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre" www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.

In short, the ANES data shows: 📉 Social media use is shrinking 💥 Twitter/X posting has moved ~50 points to the right 🧩 Platforms are splintering 🔊 Fewer people are talking — but those still talking are more politically extreme

I'd love to help make BlueSky one of the places where young scholars introduce themselves and their work to the world. If you're a PhD student whose work at least partially focuses on economics of education or education policy, reply to this thread and I'll highlight your work.

This fantastic map by Francis Galton shows travel time from London to the rest of the world in 1881.

Should other EU countries copy Germany's Industriestrompreis? Germany is set to introduce this controversial subsidy soon, which will lower electricity prices for industry. 🧵on whether it is a model to follow & what it means for other EU countries, based on data in new policy brief (1/23)

Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…

🎉 EALE is now on Bluesky! Follow us here for updates, news, and everything related to the European Association of Labour Economists. We look forward to connecting with you in this new space! #EALE

Ähnliche Tendenzen (und Ratlosigkeit) auch in der Schweiz 🇨🇭 www.tagesanzeiger.ch/schweiz-schu...

🎖️ The Prize in Economic Sciences is awarded to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt! Over the last two centuries the world has seen sustained economic growth. This year’s laureates explain how innovation provides the impetus for further progress. #PrizeinEconomicSciences #NobelPrize

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics. 🧵 1/7

🚨Thrilled to share our paper🚨 Does science focus on the diseases that hurt people the most? When deadly outbreaks hit, how does research respond? Our work with: @prashantgarg.bsky.social @trfetzer.com shows how medical research worldwide responds to both endemic burdens and emergencies. 🧵👇

Defending democracy is fundamentally different from winning elections when rules of democracy can be taken for granted. In a must-read article, @jvl.bsky.social observes that "Democrats are negotiating about policy when they should be negotiating about power." www.thebulwark.com/p/democrats-...

German Reunification Day invites both gratitude and reflection. Gratitude, because the peaceful revolution of 1989 was nothing short of a miracle — a bloodless dismantling of a repressive regime. Reflection, because the wounds of the transition still mark the country —and because

Seco-Chefin Budliger zu einem Deal mit den USA: "Wenn ich nicht optimistisch wäre, wer sollte es dann sein? Für einen Vertragsabschluss braucht es jedoch immer zwei, die ihn wollen", @NZZ

Ist jetzt nicht überraschend, aber in der Deutlichkeit dann doch bemerkenswert. (aus: on.ft.com/4gP83eW)

3. Oktober – Tag der Deutschen Einheit. Die #Wiedervereinigung war nicht nur ein politisches Ereignis – sie hat auch unsere Luft sauberer gemacht. Ein kurzer Rückblick auf die #Luftqualität in den neuen Bundesländern in den Kommentaren 👇

🥂 Another German Unity Day (3 Oct) is round the corner 🎉

Some real gems 💎 in the replies

An insightful piece by Deena Mousa about how AI performs extremely well at benchmarks for reading medical scans, yet isn't putting radiologists out of work. Lots to learn for other knowledge-work professions here. www.worksinprogress.news/p/why-ai-isn...

sheesh! AI bluesky has arrived not just good content, there’s more and more original work, people from labs, and people with genuinely interesting perspectives when i joined, it was so painful trying to find even traces

W3 professorship “Economics, especially Empirical Microeconomics” #Econsky

As I was saying…

Thanks Paul. It’s nice to have a paper that’s both elegant (if I may say so) and practically useful. The conclusion is that using a particular covariate balancing PS estimator — inverse probability tilting — renders IPW, AIPW, and IPWRA all numerically identical with a linear conditional mean.

Correlation vs Causation #tylenol #acetaminophen

Econ meme that made me giggle. Via Linkedin from Ignacio Ramirez Moreno (www.linkedin.com/in/ignacio-r...) Thought you might enjoy it too, @fabiocanetg.bsky.social!

Leider bestätigt die Bundesregierung 🇩🇪 mal wieder die klassischen Political Economy-Annahmen. Genau wie bei der Diskussion um das Schuldenpaket befürchtet. via lnkd.in/p/eVtPyNS3

Kimmel off the air is not cancel culture. It's state censorship. The FCC Chair abused merger approval authority to do it, and the president touted it saying no one should be allowed to make fun of him. Don't play into the BS that complaining students or social media posters are equivalent to govt.

So right-wing oligarchs now control X, Facebook, TikTok, WaPo, Fox News, CBS...and others not controlled by them are capitulating. Do I have that right?

"Was muss eigentlich noch alles passieren, bis Ihr eure X-Accounts endlich dichtmacht?" Ich verstehe es auch nicht. netzpolitik.org/2025/komment...

Bluesky isn’t perfect but at least its owner isn’t demanding violent insurrection in the UK from thousands of miles away

"Wir werden wahrscheinlich mit der Schweiz einen Deal machen", kündigt US-Handelsminister Howard #Lutnick in einem Interview mit dem amerikanischen TV-Sender CNBC an. Die Schweiz werde "mit der Zeit ihren Weg finden", ist der Handelsminister überzeugt. (1/3)

It's just been a brutal several years for German GDP growth—they're the only EU member state whose economy is still smaller than before the pandemic

🚨 85% (!) der Erwachsenen sind für ein Mindestalter von 16 Jahren für Social Media. Selbst unter den Jugendlichen ist eine relative Mehrheit dafür. 👉 Dies und mehr im neuen ifo Bildungsbarometer 2025: www.ifo.de/fakten/2025-... 1/7

v1.108 is rolling out today 🚚 Now live, at long last: Bookmarks, aka Saved Posts. For all those posts you'll definitely plan to come back to! Update the app and give it a try. The button is right down there 👇

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

1/Herrschte in der DDR Sozialismus/Kommunismus? Eine stern-Schlagzeile zu einem Interview mit H.Reichinnek und ein ironischer Kommentar von mir dazu, erregt einige Gemüter. Ich verstehe die Sehnsucht nach einer Alternative zum Kapitalismus. Aber warum müsst Ihr für das 21.

We usually rely on GDP, trade, or wages to study the past. This amazing paper flips the script. It analyzes 630,000 paintings (1400-2000) to extract emotions and shows how art tracks living standards, wars, inequality, and even climate shocks. (How is this economics? Everything is economics!)

What does research say about minimum wages & employment? Three quarters of studies find small negative or positive effects New from the minimum wage own-wage elasticity repository: 97 studies, 78 published Median OWE: * all studies including narrow groups= -0.15 * overall low-wage workforce = 0.00