> Men svenska Hassan var också på semester med sina barn, Roqaya och Zein. När de dödades av USA och Israels bomber, får de en passivt formulerad understreckare till huvudnyheten om krigets verkliga offer, bensinpriset.

"One of the challenges in defining ‘shadow’ fleet is that even if you resort to...terms like “opaque ownership structures”; “post-box addresses”; “obscure locations”;“shell companies”; “flags of convenience”“flag hopping” you just end up sounding like you’re describing the entire shipping industry"🤌

A Brave New World of Hiring: A Natural Field Experiment on How Asynchronous Interviews and AI Assessment Reshape Recruitment: Joseph Vecci

Namn på en väldigt borgerlig drag queen: Rut af Drag

Wrote another post based on a video with Markus Brunnermeier Use LLMs to lessen the large fixed costs of managing and organizing large databases. I use the setting of HMDA mortgage data to show how a massive 250m row db can turn into a trivial data exercise thanks to DuckDB + Claude Code.

This is worth reading

Think about this one like once every 45 minutes

A striking fact I learnt researching my book: For those in the bottom half, much of the real wage growth between 1979 and 2019 happened over just 7 "tight" years. For top wages, full employment wasn't a big deal. For bottom wages, it was the nearly the whole game.

I have a new article out on wage-earner funds, a famous attempt at economic democracy in Sweden in the 70s & 80s. It explores the funds' defeat, emphasising the issue's stronger resonance with businesses compared to workers & the Social Democratic Party journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Looking into the Meidner Plan and came across his calculations for when workers would, under different scenarios, gain majority control of their company

my working assumption is that Trump is mad at Reuters

A study on the identification and estimation of dynamic matching models of the labor market shows that usual measures of sorting and monopsony power are biased, from Cristina Gualdani, Elena Pastorino, Áureo de Paula, and Sergio Salgado www.nber.org/papers/w34973

I talk about minimum wage and monopsony in this Wall Street Journal piece. www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

Interesting article about research into the effect of the minimum wage on employment By www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

If you want to learn more about monopsony power, ranging from the intellectual history to how measure it today to some crazy stories involving collusion at the highest levels of the tech world, check out The Wage Standard. www.thewagestandard.com

fake news. guilt was invented by Battigalli and Dufwenberg in the early 2000s. bpb-us-e2.wpmucdn.com/sites.arizon...

Causal machine learning reveals that the heterogeneous impact of job displacement can be predicted in advance; substantial heterogeneity exists within firms and education groups, from Susan Athey, Lisa K. Simon, Oskar Nordström Skans, Johan Vikström and Yaroslav Yakymovych www.nber.org/papers/w34946

Stort ifall det här handlar om Khamenei d.ä. och inte d.y.

after a night of russian missile attacks on Ukraine, I decided my saturday needed something stupid and fun. so I built a random econ paper title generator. current favorite: Craft Beer Variety as an Instrument for Public Trust in Economists small joys. dariia-m.github.io/econ-title-g... #Econsky

Look at it. Hormuz has that MAIN CHARACTER ENERGY "I realized I've only seen maps of the Strait of Hormuz and was curious what it actually looks like. It's majestic! It could be a tourist destination" x.com/moorehn/stat...

"Other extensions of the factorial function do exist, but the gamma function is the most popular and useful. " did the gamma function herself/itself write this

Can workers switch it up? - Organizational forms in the Swedish preschool sector: Persson, Lovisa

New blog post: LLMs are going to summarize your papers whether you like it or not — and they're going to drop your limitations every time. Here's a proposal for how to fix that (and help with the reproducibility crisis at the same time!): paulgp.com/2026/03/10/l...

Workers on Their Way Home 1915 https://botfrens.com/collections/90/contents/25730

Äntligen! Nu kan man skaffa en liten extension till chrome som gör att man får fram förseningsstatistik direkt när man kollar upp tåg på sj.se! chromewebstore.google.com/detail/fidib...

Using electric vehicle data from Shanghai to estimate costs of range anxiety, the fear of depleting battery before reaching a charging station, from Panle Jia Barwick, Shanjun Li, and Tianli Xia www.nber.org/papers/w34871

Wo soll eigentlich die Nachfrage herkommen wenn Deutschland spart und die Exportmärkte wegbrechen?

Many workers have missed shifts without jobs being destroyed making it challenging to measure labor impacts with conventional sources. We use real-time daily data from Homebase to measure impacts. Thanks to UChicago and Homebase for making the data available. #EconSky #NumbersDay

Building 👏 more 👏 housing 👏 reduces 👏 housing 👏 prices 👏 Even when the new housing is more expensive, it lowers the cost of the pre-existing housing, as richer people move out of older housing into the new ones.

The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

Platt åsikt men det var snyggare förr

Min kollega Daniel Lind och jag har skrivit en artikel i tidskriften Ekonomisk debatt, där vi korrigerar missvisande resonemang i en tidigare artikel om AI och framtidens arbetsmarknad. Läs mer via länken: arenaide.se/viktigt-att-...

If the WSJ is noticing it must be true www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

Occupation-Specific Education Requirements and Occupational Silos: Evidence from CPA Licensing Rules: Parth Shah

Look at how being diagnosed with cancer impacts people's involvement in crime!

Documenting and characterizing a new history of US federal-level industrial policies by scanning all 12,167 Congressional Acts and 6,030 Presidential Orders from 1973 through 2022, from Jiandong Ju, Yuankun Li, and Shang-Jin Wei www.nber.org/papers/w34744

Da jeg var finansbyråd 2019-2023 "kommunaliserte" vi private sjukehjem i Oslo. Jeg var da noe skeptisk, men det var endel av byrådsavtalen. Erfaringen? Kostnaden med privat og offentlig var den samme- med ett unntak. Ved overgang til kommunen fikk ansatte bedre lønn og pensjonsvilkår.

Otroligt bra protestsång av Springsteen! Och låten har en sugande melodi som antagligen också många republikaner kommer att gilla… Den finns på Spotify.

📢now forthcoming in ECMA! The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from US Academia Class is rarely a focus of research or DEI in elite US occupations. Evidence suggests it should be: we find a large class gap in at least one occupation - tenure-track academia...🧵

The badass Oakland longshore workers union made this happen The have seen this movie before They know state-sponsored violence During their founding strike in 1934 in SF the police killed two workers The bosses killed two more en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interna...

Har fått in ett nytt ärende och vill dela siffran fem med er. Fem kronor brutto är nämligen lönen för den som flyttar en elsparkcykel från Voi till närmaste parkering. Arbetstiderna 23.00-8.00, sex nätter i veckan. Ingen OB, ingen övertid, ingen sjuklön, ingen semesterlön. Bara fem kronor brutto.

Det här blir verkligen bara dummare och dummare.

I'm just imagining sitting down with one of my clients who wants retirement advice and telling them the solution is buying 12 homes

📢 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

If no one is doing a resume audit study at DHS, I am disappointed in us. #EconSky

Something I want to be very clear about. The tightness fueled reduction in wage inequality is a limited affair - it's mainly about raising wages in the bottom half of the pay distribution, mostly in the bottom 1/3. It doesn't solve all our inequality problems, especially top concentration.

tänker läsa det här helt bokstavligt och siktar på att marka 200 @johannesklenell.bsky.social www.dn.se/kultur/johan...