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Lukas Lehner

@lukaslehner.bsky.social

Assistant Prof @EdinburghUni | Econ & social policy: labor, (un)employment, inequality | http://supertracker.spi.ox.ac.uk | https://lukaslehner.github.io/

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Contributing to this programme was one of the best journalistic experiences I’ve had given the exceptionally thorough background fact-checking; a real testament to the quality of #BBC and #MoreorLess.

09.01.2026 15:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
BBC Audio | More or Less | The Stats of the Nation: Immigration, benefits and inequality Tim Harford explores the stats on some of the UK’s most potent political debates

Reform UK recently claimed that the UK’s benefits bill would be much higher than in other Western countries. That's simply incorrect.

I spoke to @timharford.ft.com for #BBC More or Less about the actual cost of welfare.

BBC: www.bbc.com/audio/play/p...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6WyJ...

09.01.2026 15:25 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1
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Der Berufseinstieg für junge Studienabsolvent:innen ist derzeit schwierig. Gleichzeitig bleibt eine gute Ausbildung einer der wichtigsten Schutzfaktoren gegen Arbeitslosigkeit; gerade über den Erwerbsverlauf.

Mit der Kleinen Zeitung habe ich darüber gesprochen:
www.kleinezeitung.at/steiermark/2...

07.01.2026 10:43 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
Norwegian University of Science and Technology - NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Located in Trondheim, Gjøvik and Ålesund. Specializing in technology and the natural sciences. 40 000 students.

📢🚨 PhD position in my new "@welgain.bsky.social" project 🚨 📢

I am looking for a 🎓 PhD student 🎓 interested in impact evaluation, welfare programs, labor & public economics, social policy & inequality, to work with me at NTNU in Trondheim (www.ntnu.edu). (1/3) 👇

23.12.2025 18:37 — 👍 14    🔁 15    💬 1    📌 1
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I’m hiring a postdoc! Flexible in terms of details, but I’m looking for someone to collaborate with on research about labor market inequality. I’ll review applications as they come in and the posting just went up here:
apply.interfolio.com/178873

09.12.2025 19:36 — 👍 36    🔁 28    💬 0    📌 4
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Arbeitslosigkeit: Kritik am "Zwischenparken" - Niederösterreich heute vom 03.12.2025 Arbeitslosigkeit: Kritik am "Zwischenparken" | Agrana: Neuer Vertrag mit Rübenbauern | Lebensgefahr am Gleis: ÖBB klärt Schüler auf | Mehr Rechte für Menschen mit Behinderung gefordert | Meldungen | P...

Aktuell subventionieren Branchen mit stabiler Beschäftigung jene mit instabiler Beschäftigung. Experience Ratings, wie in den USA, würden dies eindämmen.

Mit dem ORF habe ich über die aktuell steigende Arbeitslosigkeit in Österreich gesprochen: on.orf.at/video/143022...

noe.orf.at/stories/3332...

04.12.2025 09:27 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Excited to be part of this project, where we'll aim to improve cost-benefit analysis of social policies over the next four years.

Thanks for leading the work, @robertoiacono.org!

03.12.2025 22:19 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Lukas Lehner Wins International Awards For Dissertation ➽ https://www.inet.ox.ac.uk/news/lukas-lehner-wins-international-awards-for-dissertation

@lukaslehner.bsky.social has received two international awards for his dissertation completed @ox.ac.uk @dspi-oxford.bsky.social

23.11.2025 10:02 — 👍 17    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Many congratulations to our alumnus @lukaslehner.bsky.social who has received 2 awards for his dissertation completed during his DPhil at DSPI:
'Beyond Unemployment: An Investigation of Social Policies to Empower Workers in a Changing World of Work' ⬇️ #Employmeny #SocialPolicy

20.11.2025 13:28 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Thank you!

06.11.2025 21:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Vielen lieben Dank, Markus!

06.11.2025 20:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Vielen lieben Dank!

06.11.2025 19:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Danke dir, Matthias!

06.11.2025 19:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thrilled and honoured to receive the @upjohninstitute.bsky.social 2025 Dissertation Award 🏆

Congrats to @amyburnettcross.bsky.social & Omeed!

Truly grateful to my mentors and collaborators, especially
@simonjaeger.bsky.social & @maxkasy.bsky.social. Can’t quite believe it looking at past winners.

06.11.2025 17:21 — 👍 38    🔁 2    💬 4    📌 1
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Opinion | A.I. Is Deciding Who You Are In the age of A.I., personal data is anything but personal.

Just out in the New York Times:

My op-ed on the limits of data-privacy and the need for democratic control in the age of AI.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/o...

@nytimes.com @nytopinion.nytimes.com

02.11.2025 14:20 — 👍 22    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 5
Title, authors, and abstract text of new working paper

Title, authors, and abstract text of new working paper

Does deliberative democracy affect peoples’ political agency and redistributive preferences? A new WP by @franziskadbacher.bsky.social, Martin Haselmayer, @lukaslehner.bsky.social, @severinrapp.bsky.social & @frawin.bsky.social uses a field experiment to answer this question.
bit.ly/4q4qq3P

14.10.2025 16:15 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 3
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🎖️ 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

13.10.2025 09:47 — 👍 50    🔁 31    💬 2    📌 8
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Multidisciplinary Seminar Series - Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality Fall 2025 Hosted by Stone Center Postdoctoral Scholars All seminars will be held biweekly on Wednesdays from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM (EDT) in hybrid format: In-Person Location: Stone Center Library and...

In tomorrow's seminar at the @stone-lis.bsky.social I will be presenting my paper "The Good Council: Deliberating inequality in a field experiment" (w @frawin.bsky.social @lukaslehner.bsky.social @franziskadbacher.bsky.social and Martin Haselmayer). Join: stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu/programs/mul...

07.10.2025 16:28 — 👍 21    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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New WP: We study how minimum wage increases affect poverty and food hardship in the U.S from 1981-2019. Different from recent work, we study the Supplemental Poverty Measure + two measures of food hardship, factor in cost-of-living differences, and more. www.iza.org/publications...

29.09.2025 12:34 — 👍 56    🔁 30    💬 2    📌 3
Two graphs are shown, illustrating the trade union density and productivity or wage levels per company and economic sector

Two graphs are shown, illustrating the trade union density and productivity or wage levels per company and economic sector

From the INEQ archive 📂
In INEQ Research Note 2024|02, @elist.bsky.social and @lukaslehner.bsky.social analyse the relationship between unionisation, works councils, and firm performance.
📄 Find all INEQ Research Notes here: short.wu.ac.at/ineq_rn (Only in German)
#INEQ #INEQ_RN
© List & Lehner

16.09.2025 13:20 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Wie günstig eine Jobgarantie ist und warum Österreich sie sich spart Die Wirtschaft strauchelt, die Arbeitslosigkeit steigt – und immer mehr Menschen finden auch über lange Zeit keinen Job. Doch es gibt erprobte und überraschend günstige Ansätze.

Die Wirtschaft strauchelt, die Arbeitslosigkeit steigt – und immer mehr Menschen finden auch über lange Zeit keinen Job. Doch es gibt erprobte und überraschend günstige Ansätze.

12.08.2025 13:25 — 👍 11    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Marterbauer zu Besuch in Marienthal: Für die Jobgarantie ist kein Geld da Einst widmete sich eine berühmte Studie den Arbeitslosen von Marienthal, danach das Angebot einer Jobgarantie. Diese könnte sich für den Staat rechnen, zeigen neue Zahlen. Doch Finanzminister Marterba...

Heute besuchten Finanzminister @markusmarterbauer.bsky.social und #JobGarantie-Initiator Landesrat @svenhergovich.bsky.social Marienthal, wo ich ihnen neue Ergebnisse unserer Evaluierung vorstellen konnte.

@derstandard.at hat den Besuch zusammengefasst:
www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

04.08.2025 15:15 — 👍 31    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
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Marterbauer zu Besuch in Marienthal: Für die Jobgarantie ist kein Geld da Einst widmete sich eine berühmte Studie den Arbeitslosen von Marienthal, danach das Angebot einer Jobgarantie. Diese könnte sich für den Staat rechnen, zeigen neue Zahlen. Doch Finanzminister Marterba...

Today Austria's Finance Minister @markusmarterbauer.bsky.social & #JobGuarantee Founder @svenhergovich.bsky.social visited #Marienthal where I shared new results of the evaluation with @maxkasy.bsky.social @inetoxford.bsky.social

@derstandard.at covered the visit:
www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

04.08.2025 15:04 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Research Associate at The University of Edinburgh Recruiting now: Research Associate on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

Postdoc at the University of Edinburgh for a project on “Instability After Adverse Parental Life-Course Events and Educational Inequality.” Open to applicants with the right to work in the UK, deadline Aug 4.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNX731/r...

18.07.2025 11:45 — 👍 8    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0

Terrific news for @inetoxford.bsky.social & @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social!

14.07.2025 16:07 — 👍 11    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Zach Parolin Appointed Oxford Professor of Social Policy, Inequality… Zach Parolin will direct the Economics, Inequality and Opportunity Programme at INET Oxford, which seeks to understand the drivers and implications of…

This fall, I'll join the University of Oxford as Professor of Social Policy, Inequality & Opportunity. I'll also become the Director of the Economics, Inequality and Opportunity Program at INET Oxford, and will join @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social as a Professorial Fellow.

14.07.2025 12:59 — 👍 144    🔁 12    💬 24    📌 4

Curious who's behind INEQ? 🧠
We've just launched a starter pack featuring our team – researchers working on topics of inequality.
👉 Check it out and follow the people behind the research: "INEQs – meet the inner circle" go.bsky.app/B7ff4zJ

26.06.2025 14:27 — 👍 11    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0
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What can we learn from the #Marienthal #JobGuarantee pilot for designing effective labor market and social policy?

@maxkasy.bsky.social and I have a new @inetoxford.bsky.social policy brief that summarises the results of the #Marienthal #JobGuarantee.

oms-inet.files.svdcdn.com/production/f...

25.06.2025 14:20 — 👍 11    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Paper forthcoming in AJS! Your last chance to read as a working paper here

06.06.2025 17:53 — 👍 61    🔁 9    💬 3    📌 0
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Längeres Arbeiten für alle? | FR | 06 06 2025 | 13:00 Konzepte, Chancen, Stolpersteine. Gäste: Dr. Christine Mayrhuber, Ökonomin am Wirtschaftsforschungsinstitut (WIFO), Vorsitzende der Alterssicherungskommission & Dr. Lukas Lehner, Ökonom, Assistenzp...

Länger arbeiten, aber für wen ist das realistisch?

Heute um 13:00 live auf #Ö1: Gemeinsam mit @cmayrhuber.bsky.social diskutieren wir bei Punkt Eins über #Pensionen und das #Pensionsantrittsalter in #Österreich, moderiert von Andreas Obrecht.

📞 0800 22 69 79

oe1.orf.at/programm/202...

06.06.2025 06:50 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0