🚨 New paper alert: Exclusionary political rhetoric alone can drive people to leave their hometowns In Poland, anti-LGBTQ resolutions by 100 local governments caused a rise in migration intentions, reflected in job search Here’s what @jangromadzki.bsky.social and I found: 🧵

New IZA paper by @jangromadzki.bsky.social and @paweladrjan.bsky.social shows anti-LGBTQ resolutions in Poland increased migration intentions. Their findings nicely echo our own (osf.io/preprints/os...) from the same case: even symbolic exclusionary politics can shape people’s choices on the ground.

Anti-LGBTQ resolutions aka "LGBT-free zones" in Poland have increased residents’ intentions to migrate, both within the country and abroad. Together with @paweladrjan.bsky.social, we use unique data on all clicks on the global job site Indeed. Link: docs.iza.org/dp18217.pdf Main findings ⬇️ 1/7

Thanks to the shutdown, we didn't get the first estimate of Q3 GDP today. And private-sector data offer no good substitute for official GDP. The shutdown offers lots of lessons about what private sector data can and can't do. New at @piie.com : www.piie.com/blogs/realti...

Con ganas de volver a México para compartir nuestra investigación sobre el mercado laboral y hablar de las tendencias que vemos en los datos de Indeed. ¿Alguien de mi red estará en CDMX la semana que viene?

2-3 days a week in the office has become the norm in hybrid job postings. Attendance requirements have tightened over the last few years, but there's no evidence of any significant shift beyond 3 days in the office. UK data:

Time for a new pinned post. Out now in the UK, coming January 6th in the US.

Europe's labour markets are converging, as hiring demand is strong in the South while falling in the North. As of late August, job postings in Spain are 46% and Italy 53% above pre-pandemic levels. Guillermo Gallacher and I wrote a blog post about Eurozone's four largest economies 👇

❓Why do the Nordics & Dutch speak English so much better than the Germans, Italians & French? ➡️ New Working Paper: Out-of-School Learning: Subtitling vs. Dubbing and the Acquisition of Foreign-Language Skills w/ F. Baumeister & E. Hanushek www.nber.org/papers/w33984 A 🧵 1/12

Is working from home just a pandemic blip? Not according to the data. We analysed 1 billion job postings in 20 OECD countries. The share of jobs advertising remote/hybrid work quadrupled from 2.5% to 11% (2019–2023) and has been stable since 🧵

The Indeed Wage Tracker is now live for #Japan 🇯🇵 Posted #wages in Japan rose 3.6% year-over-year in April 2025, based on a 3-month average. This represents moderation from a recent peak of over 4% but it's still higher than anytime from 2019 to early 2024.

📉 New job posting data shows a growing North-South divide in Europe’s labour market as of mid-April: 🇪🇸 Spain up 4% in the past month, now 65% above pre-pandemic levels 🇮🇹 Italy high & holding steady 🇩🇪 Germany & 🇬🇧 UK sliding No crash anywhere (yet) but a continued divergence

📢 New data from the #Indeed Hiring Lab! 📈 Ahead of this week’s ECB Governing Council meetings, we’ve released December data from our Wage Tracker. In a new blog post, @rlydon.bsky.social, Vahagn Galstyan and I dive into euro area wage trends and their implications for monetary policy. 🇪🇺🧵 1/

📉📈 via @ckrafftc Research in Labor Economics (RLE) is planning a volume highlighting research on New Developments in Labor Economics. The editors Solomon Polachek and @ben_elsner are soliciting up to ten new papers showcasing new developments in #laborEconomics. … 1/2

Excited to share that my paper with Reamonn Lydon is now published in Research in Labor Economics! Main insights: ✅ Online job postings offer timely insights into wage trends ✅ Post-pandemic wage growth surged, especially for lower-paid jobs — signalling strong labour demand

Today’s JOLTS report was reasonably good! - Job openings ticked up to 7.7 million (from 7.4). - The quits rate rose for the first time in 17 months. - Layoff rate = 1.0 -> Below pre-pandemic all-time lows. Hires rate weak at 3.3%, but could be a blip given slight pickup in recent months.

Trying something new: A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?" It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social 🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...

🚨New research🚨 Official labour market data has ‘lost’ almost a million workers and is over-stating the scale of Britain’s economic inactivity challenge. More➡️https://buff.ly/4fz1ifQ

I've always thought of #France as a country particularly fixated on formal diplomas. But French employers are gradually placing less emphasis on degrees in job postings. Is this a shift towards valuing #skills over formal #qualifications? New research by #HiringLab's Lisa Feist 👇

Escribo hoy en @cincodias.bsky.social sobre brecha de género en el mercado de trabajo y por qué, según la evidencia, hemos puesto el ojo en las políticas menos adecuadas. La conciliación, los horarios laborales y la educación deben ser los territorios a trabajar. t.co/EXYrddCy4M

Excited to present new research on the labour market impact of Poland's "LGBT-free zones" at @econupo.bsky.social tomorrow. This is early work in progress with @jangromadzki.bsky.social and I look forward to the feedback. Details: www.upo.es/area-analisi...

🚨Next #EconUpo #Seminar🚨 📄"Exclusionary Government Rhetoric and Migration Intentions" 🗣️Pawel Adrjan (Indeed) 📅Monday 18, Nov. 🕛12 noon 📍Boardroom. Building 3. #pablodeolavide

We are hiring! You will work on a series of exciting papers with me, @emilynix100.bsky.social, Kristiina H, Ning Zhang & Martti Kaila while developing your own research agenda. Please reach out with any questions! Job ad: econjobmarket.org/positions/11218 #EconSky #EconJM

I put together a quick starter pack of people working on migration economics! Check it out: go.bsky.app/39gHy57 Feel free to nominate yourself or others to add to the list!

🚨 The final Indeed Wage Tracker update before the ECB's December meetings is here 🇪🇺 Wage growth across the euro area continued its steady decline through October, broadly in line with ECB expectations. 📉 Latest charts, including individual country trends 👇

📣 Update on Indeed's Job Postings Index (and my first #econsky post!) We have refined our seasonal adjustment methodology, leading to restated data for all series. This update makes trends clearer around holidays. 🇪🇸 Spain’s job postings continue to trend strongly relative to other large economies