Yesterday our column “The gender wage gap and what firms have to do with it” was published at EU VOX | CEPR. Read it here: share.google/NOefC0E5aJrb... Full paper: urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-f...

Call for papers -- Wages, Employment and Inequality, part IV. Uppsala Sep 4-5. Keynotes @simonjaeger.bsky.social & Anna Salomons. Also confirmed Alexander Willén and Lena Hensvik. Its the 4th time I do this with @tuomaskosonen.bsky.social, great fun every time - join us! verotutkimus.fi/en/wei-2026/

Not every seminar invitation includes infotmation on optimal offpist ski conditions -- but when they do, I clear my schedule! "Off course you could come after ski season, but why would you want to do that?" Wonderful!

Excited to start as co-editor at the ILR-Review. Hope to see your best work on wages, employment, inequality,... or any other "core" labor market topic. And - unsurprising for those of you who heard my favorite rant - I will never desk reject without a motivation... journals.sagepub.com/home/ilr

Thank you, all WEI III participants, for your valuable contributions and vivid discussions, which made the event a success! A big hand also to the organisers @tuomaskosonen.bsky.social @oskarnskans.bsky.social A brief account on WEI is now on the FIT site! 👇 verotutkimus.fi/en/wei2025/

Wages, Employment & Inequality workshop had a great start with Stephen Machin as the first keynote speaker!🤩 Organisers: @tuomaskosonen.bsky.social & @oskarnskans.bsky.social🫡 Funders: FIT/Research Council of Finland, @vatt-research.bsky.social, YJS Foundation, Handelsbankens Forskningsstiftelser🙏

Following this on TV, the peak of the necessary destruction of Kiruna town center where I grew up. Soon it will be a park there, until cracks from the mine become too severe even for that. Remarkable, as everything about this town in the far north, but also pretty sad... www.bbc.com/news/article...

One to Two Senior Lecturers in Economics #Econsky

Extremely sad to learn that former @eale-office.bsky.social president Bertil Holmlund has passed away. Bertil was the founder of the strong Uppsala labor environment. Working with him was a true learning experience. Kind, funny, smart, and unbelievably efficient. He will be deeply missed.

PhD position in Labor Economics on AI, Structural change & the Future of Work. A very exciting research group: Uppsala's excellent Labor Econ Environment--integrated with other schools, fields, practitioners, and leading international scholars. Apply now--call is short! uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

📢 We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Employment Research (@iabnews.bsky.social) for our research project on the gig economy! #EconSky Link: econjobmarket.org/positions/11... start date: October 2025 Some German knowledge is required.

📢 WE are hiring a Professor in Labor Economics at JKU Linz! Come and join us! We are a young and active department with a strong focus in applied econ. Link: tinyurl.com/jkulabor Please help us spread the word and RT.

🚨 PhD and Post Doc positions incoming 🚨 Received 3 million Euros from WASP-HS for an interdisciplinary (Econ, Sociology, Business) research cluster on AI, Structural Change and the Future of Work. PhD call coming very soon - start Jan 2026, fully funded in an amazing research team w fantastic data!

Dislike that it somehow has become industry standard to not provide a motivation when desk rejecting. I never did this as an editor. It takes time to read and assess, but not to provide a motivation. It is a good lazy test - if you properly assessed the paper, you can write a motivation in 2 minutes

💡 Tinbergen Institute Summer School in Applied Public Policy Evaluation 🎓 Joint with Pierre Koning ⏰ July 7 - July 11 in Amsterdam 💸 Early bird fee until April 15 🖊️ More information and registration at tinbergen.nl/applied-publ... @tinbergeninstitute.bsky.social

Om man tar USTRs formel för tullar på allvar (vilket man inte borde), och använder de parametrar som litteraturen de citerar kommer fram till, så borde USAs tullar bara vara en fjärdedel så höga. Som exempelvis Brent Neiman, en av författarna till studien som citeras, påpekat. (1/5)

📢Submit your paper to WEI 2025 now, the DL is March,30! The Workshop in Labor Economics: Wages, Employment and Inequality in Helsinki in August with Magne Mogstad and Stephen Machin as keynote speakers! Organisers @tuomaskosonen.bsky.social & @oskarnskans.bsky.social verotutkimus.fi/en/wei2025/

Scandinavian employees work more from home. Likely causes are high trust and advanced technology. Increases in remote work affect the spatial distribution of local service jobs, from Adam Gill, Lena E. Hensvik, and Oskar Nordström Skans https://www.nber.org/papers/w33581

Really cool article in the New York Times on our family home - and such a fun film with one of our brilliant young family guides www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/t...

Dear academic economists! Two weeks left to apply to a position as full professor at the Econ Dept @stockholm-uni.bsky.social. in Sweden, academic - and personal - freedoms are deeply respected. And the microdata is awesome! Deadline March 31! #econsky su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

New NBER WP (forthcoming book chapter) with @adam-gill.bsky.social and Lena Hensvik on the very high rates of work-from-home in all Nordic countries -- already before the pandemic. Some likely causes, and some consequences for service workers www.nber.org/papers/w33581

📢 Call for Papers: Workshop in Labor Economics: Wages, Employment and Inequality, Helsinki on 21 – 22 Aug DL 30.3. Keynotes: Magne Mogstad (University of Chicago) Stephen Machin (LSE) Organizers: @tuomaskosonen.bsky.social @oskarnskans.bsky.social More info 👇

Submit your "core" labor economics papers (wages, employment..) to this great workshop I co-organize for the third time - join with, e.g., Cardoso, Machin, Mogstad and Spitz-Oener for some serious Labor Economics in Helsinki in August!

If you are in Chicago, go visit this marvelous exhibition, now open at the Swedish American Museum, showing the art of perfect imperfection by my great-great-grandmother rightsandbrands.com/news/karin-l...

Apply to the Uppsala Econ PhD program--deadline Feb 1st. Any field goes, but if you have any interest in Labor Economics, we offer one of Europe's very best research environments. Great people, unique data, and an exciting integration between applied micro and macro! uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

📢#cfp for the @iza_bonn @UniLeiden @OECD Workshop: "Recent Advances in Labor Economics Using Linked Employer-Employee Data" 22-23 May in the Hague. Keynote: @KSalvanes Organizers: Jordy Meekes, Pierre Cahuc & Alexander Hijzen Apply by 14 February: conference.iza.org/IZA_OECD_202...

Google's Deep Research is an excellent application of agentic capabilities. One example something it can do pretty well is search for all my podcasts and interviews and create a webpage listing them. Cuts down effort at least 10x compared to doing it manually.

Lots of fun to write this paper with brilliant student @adam-gill.bsky.social Managers who *trust* other people offer WFH to their workers, and do it themselves.

🚨New Working Paper!🚨 Excited to share a new IZA DP (No. 17468) with @oskarnskans.bsky.social looking at the relationship between trust and work from home (WFH). #EconSky “Trusted from Home: Managerial Beliefs and Workers’ Spatial Autonomy” docs.iza.org/dp17468.pdf A short 🧵…

Hi #EconSky! I’m a PhD Candidate in Economics at Uppsala University. My #EconJMP investigates how firms’ previous employment experience in a particular occupation affects hiring standards, wages, and post-hiring outcomes. Find out more about my research here: sites.google.com/view/dogangu...

Hi #econsky What are your favorite papers on recruitment and retention of public sector workers (ideally in high income countries)? 🙏

New IZA DP: The gender wage gap is much narrower when jobs are covered by collective agreements with less local flexibility among Swedish blue collar workers. Effects are largest when women are few, or rents are scarce: www.iza.org/publications...