Karim Bekhtiar

Der 9. Workshop für Arbeitsökonomik wird von IHS, JKU, CEU und AK Wien organisiert und findet am 7.11.2025 an der CEU Wien statt. Beiträge bis 30.9. einreichen – zu Themen wie Arbeitsmarkt, Sozialpolitik, Bildung & mehr.

Mehr Infos: www.ihs.ac.at/de/aktuelles...

Thanks to @ingoisphording.bsky.social for an insightful IHS Talk about the mental health challenges among teachers!

Happy to have you here!

Just out: Our new paper addressing urgently needed clarity for the Paris Goals, given the imminence of the 1.5°C-crossing of the long-term global surface temperature anomaly.
These results further underscore the need for deep & rapid emission reductions worldwide.

📌

📌

1/19: Seems timely to share a paper which explores how people perceive & understand trade and trade policies. Which factors shape the support for different trade policies? Thread below with the key takeaways #EconTwitter 🧵, and full paper here: socialeconomicslab.org/understandin...

Österreichische Neonazis lockten Schwule für brutale Übergriffe in Falle Ein Netzwerk junger, militanter Rechtsextremer soll schwule Männer zu vermeintlichen romantischen Treffen gelockt und dann gequält, beraubt und erniedrigt haben. Am Freitag nahmen die Behörden mindest...

In Österreich haben Rechtsextreme systematisch und massenweise schwule Männer auf Dates gelockt um sie dann auszurauben und zu schikanieren. Sie haben dann davon noch Videomaterial produziert. Man kennt das aus Russland. Es ist gezielter rechtsautoritärer Terror 1/
www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

What 10,000 students taught us about combating LGBTphobia in schools School-based interventions can help, but repeated exposure and the ability to engage resistant groups are key to shifting social norms  

Combating LGBTphobia: A recent study involving 10,000 students shows that school-based interventions can help, but real change in social norms requires repeated exposure and tailored approaches for particularly resistant groups. 🌈📚

New IZA World of Labor opinion piece:
wol.iza.org/opinions/wha...

🆕 RFBerlin - CReAM Discussion Paper: How do far-right protests affect the incidence of hate crimes? @sardoschau.bsky.social and Annalí Casanueva-Artís analyze the link between right-wing demonstrations and hate crimes in Germany. 🧵👇

New working paper! In this research note, @bogatyrev.bsky.social, @tabouchadi.bsky.social, @heikekluever.bsky.social, @lstoetze.bsky.social, and I present the first systematic test that causally identifies the electoral consequences of state-sponsored homophobia:
osf.io/preprints/os...

🧵Thread

Deutschland hat gewählt, und die AfD gilt als die große Siegerin. Wie lässt sich ihr Ergebnis einordnen, und welche geografischen Merkmale prägen ihre Unterstützung? @hudde.bsky.social und ich haben das AfD-Zweitstimmenergebnis in den 299 Bundestagswahlkreisen ausgewertet. Ein Thread. 🧵👇

Danke Lukas :)

📢 We’re Hiring! 2 Doctoral Researchers – Labor Econ

💡 Interested in how global megatrends shape labor markets?
📈 Background in Econ/ STEM?
🖥️ Love working with large-scale data?

If 3xYes, then join my Research Group @ihs.ac.at in the heart of Vienna! 🙂

Apply by March 7: lnkd.in/egzuWgmC #EconSky

Danke dir :)

Danke Benjamin :)

Vielen Dank :)

Thank you Manuel!

Vielen Dank :)

Overall the results of this paper highlight that declining labor market prospects strongly contribute to political polarization. Weakening the blow of economic shocks and structural change on those workers most affected is thus likely to contribute to more stability in the political sphere.

8/8

Comparing these effects with existing results from the literature on the electoral effects of immigration suggests that the contribution of the manufacturing decline is only slightly smaller than the contribution of immigration.

7/8

Examining the separate effects of rising trade exposure and automation technologies suggests that those two forces, which are strongly connected to the manufacturing decline, have both contributed to the increasing effect on far-right vote-shares in roughly equal parts.

6/8

These vote gains of the far-right primarily come at the expense of the Social Democratic party, but also (to a lesser extent) of the Conservative party. Overall, the manufacturing decline has contributed to a pronounced rightward shift in the Austrian parliament.

5/8

In this paper, I show that these two trends are connected. Applying an instrumental variable strategy shows that declines in manufacturing employment directly led to increases in far-right voting.

4/8

The success of the far-right is strongly built on support of the working class, as far-right voters are more reliant on employment in the manufacturing sector, more often work in blue collar occupations, are more likely to be unemployed, are less skilled and are more likely to be male.

3/8

The manufacturing decline coincides with the rise of far-right populist parties, not only in Austria, but in most Western democracies. Consequently, the far-right experiences particularly strong support from workers negatively affected by structural change.

2/8

🚨 New Publication 🚨
Super hyped that my paper “The Decline of Manufacturing Employment and the Rise of the Far-Right in Austria” is now forthcoming in the Journal of Public Economics @jpube.bsky.social .

doi.org/10.1016/j.jp...

#EconSky

A short 🧵
1/8

Ohne #Migration kann Deutschland kein dauerhaftes Wirtschafts#wachstum haben und viele Unternehmen werden verschwinden. Die neue Bundesregierung muss sicherstellen, dass Deutschland eine offene Gesellschaft bleibt und attraktiv für Zuwanderung ist.

Unsere Studie:

www.diw.de/de/diw_01.c....

Pretty much exactly 80 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, the richest man in the world uses the Nazi salute at the inauguration of his close ally as US president. What should rationally not be surprising is still so deeply shocking and simply difficult to comprehend.

Willkommen auf Bluesky @ess-austria.bsky.social! Folgeempfehlung für alle, die an aktuellen Daten der Europäischen Sozialstudie (ESS) interessiert sind.
www.europeansocialsurvey.org/about/nation...