När ett företag anställer i ett yrke som inte tidigare funnits på arbetsplatsen betalar de högre ingångslöner och rekryterar mer selektivt. De som anställs har längre arbetslivserfarenhet och rekryteras oftare från en annan arbetsgivare Nytt WP idag av @dgulumser.bsky.social @rfberlin.bsky.social

I know my blue sky network is not optimized around tennis, a topic I became interested in a week ago having seen a YouTube short. But I still need you to play around with this

Långedragsborna när sommarturisterna kommer för en tur ut till skärgården.

Tenker på dette sitatet minst én gang i uken

Off the Labor Supply Curve: The Zero Employer Size Wage Effect Within Large Firms: Benjamin Schoefer

Gillar att Japan har en fackombudsman på planen

I anledning skattekommisjonens rapport: For noen år siden undersøkte jeg nordmenns skattepreferanser: En bred tverrpolitisk enighet hvis du spør _velgerne_ til partiene er at skattesystemet bør være progressivt hele veien. Det står i kontrast til det faktiske systemet som er regressivt i toppen.🧵

Earlier this month, we hosted the annual Behavioural/Experimental Group Workshop at the Department. Researchers presented their work on topics ranging from climate action and biodiversity to corruption, redistribution, and market morality. Thank you to all for an inspiring day! 📸 Moritz Janas

The UK's tax system has tilted towards taxing people on the highest incomes www.ft.com/content/55a3...

Välfärdssektorn är drygt 20 % av arbetsmarknaden. Lönerna är lägre, men många upplever sina arbeten som meningsfulla och är nöjda. Rörligheten mellan välfärdssektorn och övriga arbetsmarknaden har ökat De anställda stannar kvar i arbetslivet längre upp i åldrarna. Ny rapport - länk nedan!

I'm so grateful to the colleagues who have been willing to read my forthcoming book How Economics Discovered Women in advance (#1).

Good piece by Yasheng Huang, who makes the same point that I often do: China's massive trade surplus reflects competitive (or absolute) advantage, not comparative advantage, and this is based mainly on its relatively low labor share of output. yashenghuang.substack.com/p/china-as-a...

Indexkritik! olåst artikel: archive.is/nGFnv

Jävla blek gul färg på kortbyxorna?

Thread about our new @wid.world working paper with @jakobmolinder.bsky.social and Svante Prado on income inequality and structural transformation in Sweden, 1870–1970! Link to paper: wid.world/document/inc... Thread 1/

New paper by Dahl and Knepper www.restud.com/unemployment... #REStud #EconSky

our working paper is out with the World Inequality Lab with a nice press release style summary! Read it here: "Income Inequality and Structural Transformation: Evidence from Swedish Micro Data, 1870–1970", World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2026/14. 🤠 wid.world/news-article...

🎓🎉 Congratulations to @danielcunhajr.bsky.social on successfully defending his PhD thesis in economics, In the Path of Crime: Schools, Neighborhoods, and Firms! We're happy to celebrate this milestone and wish him all the best in his future research. Read more about his thesis: lnkd.in/diA6ViSM

things are going beautifully in Sweden, despite what Trump has to say about this social democratic hellhole

I had a really great time talking to @maxjerneck.bsky.social ... we touched on so many critical issues! Max is a very thoughtful and knowledgeable commentator, very much worth following.

Ghost job openings -- openings posted online to fool investors -- could be real. IDK. If so, they'd harm jobseekers via time wasting. But they wouldn't influence any official labor-market statistics. No govt statistics, not even job opening stats, use web posting data. #ghostjobs #NumbersDay

Redan 46 underskrifter. Är du forskare eller anställd vid universitet, högskogla eller forskningsinstitut? Läs gärna vår appell och skriv under! Och om du har möjlighet - kom till demonstrationen 23 augusti i Stockholm. Låt oss visa att vi är många som vill ha en kraftfull och rättvis klimatpolitik.

Swedish wage inequality is very low. And has stayed low.

Very pleased that our review "Monopsony makes it big" for JEL is now officially forthcoming, joint with @sydneecaldwell.bsky.social and Suresh Naidu. Will post a WP version soon!

I have learnt a lot about pay setting in Scandinavian countries this week, and it has only highlighted how much more there is to learn. The great news is that there is a vibrant and generative research program studying pay setting here!

How important is a good manager? A study published in The Quarterly Journal of Economics shows that a manager’s leadership ability can be as important as the combined productivity of a team’s employees. The article, “How Do You Identify a Good Manager?”, is co-authored by Joseph Vecci.

Work from Home and Disability Employment: Dan-Olof Rooth

Piketty has a lot on this

Will do a Substack, but Sweden is a great example how inequality is complex. Once a textbook solidaristic economy, Sweden today is much more unequal. But it's largely a story of capital & upper tail income & taxes. Wage inequality rose much less, thanks to strong sectoral bargaining instituitions.

Lovar att säga till om det dyker upp en bild som motbevisar min tes

Merger proposals create a selection effect: even if market power and efficiency gains are unrelated overall, proposed mergers will often show a negative correlation between them, from @rmetcalfe.bsky.social, Alexandre B. Sollaci, and Chad Syverson www.nber.org/papers/w35221

michael kremer for nobel prize twice! please!! (another banger from paul)

Dagens obligatoriska läsning. Dela gärna vidare. etidning.dn.se/shared/artic...

boss makes a dollar, i make a dime. everyone contributes here at the mint

*** NEW RESEARCH *** Images of ICE targeting US cities have been commonplace in since January 2025. What's the economic effect of this new immigration enforcement regime on businesses, both workplaces and retailers, in targeted areas? Thread... 🧵

Bad news for capricorns: they earn less than other zodiac signs Good news for capricorns: it's not due to their zodiac sign

This chart is excellent. It’s really clear how Labour didn’t just lose votes on the margins, its coalition fully fractured into several pieces. Betraying your party’s core values to try to win over voters who loathe you is bad politics in a majoritarian system with several parties

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One of our job market candidates at Tilburg University had an offer withdrawn very late by the institution's rector because Tilburg is not ranked in the top 200 in the QS ranking. All of this after they assured our candidate that the rector's approval would be a formality... This is frustrating...

Löntagarfonder är ett jävla skit, men nu har vi baxat dem ända hit. ….men har ni läst fortsättningen?

Späckhuggare utanför Öckerö 😬

77 % minimilönebett. Noll effekt på sysselsättningen. Det är ett högre minimilönebett än det påstått höga i en del branscher i Sverige. @germanbender.bsky.social Apropå er text om svenska löner i Arbetsvärlden.

I wanted to pitch a sort of "Margin Call" in the Purge Universe, where the Lehman Brothers proxy was putting together its regulatory liquidity statement on the evening when all crimes were legal.

Obehöriga i spåret-tisdag

den enda gemensamma nämnaren för människorna som min bank visar mig när jag loggar in som jag kan se är att de har mer pengar på banken än mig