Jon Nielsen

Unions aren’t just good for workers—they also benefit communities and democracy Rebuilding worker power by strengthening unions is not just good policy—it is a democratic imperative in the face of authoritarian backsliding.

Unions boost wages 🚀

On average, a union worker earns 12.8% more in wages than their nonunionized peers.

But unions don’t just help union workers—they help ALL workers by raising standards.

Read our new report about how unions are good for workers AND communities: www.epi.org/publication/...

Det kan være svært at finde ord for situationen i Gaza. Men det er ikke svært at finde tal

Sultkatastrofen i Gaza er ifølge FN mere alvorlig end på noget andet tidspunkt i den næsten to år lange konflikt. Information har samlet otte centrale tal om udsultningen af Gaza.

Finnish Finance Ministry misunderstood my research, says German tax researcher German economics Professor Sebastian Gechert told Yle that he was "a little annoyed" the ministry did not use the main finding from his study.

Economist @sgechert.bsky.social brings much-needed sense to the current policy discussions in Finland regarding the Orpo government's decision to lower the corporate tax rate from 20% to 18%.

For sure! Man har jo altid lyst til at sammenligne prisen i dag med prisen under den seneste istid

The thing about Europe: it’s the actual land of the free now Europe’s very real problems don’t look so bad by comparison

Brilliant
www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

Skill Depreciation during Unemployment: Evidence from Panel Data (Forthcoming Article) - We examine the depreciation of skills among unemployed German workers using a panel of skill measures linked to administrative data. Both the reemployment hazard and reemployme...

Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Skill Depreciation during Unemployment: Evidence from Panel Data" by Jonathan Cohen, Andrew C. Johnston, and Attila Lindner. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Powerful study by @breznaunate.bsky.social and Borjas. Hadn't thought this would be the case.

This new paper uses machine learning to detect political leanings in economists' academic writing and shows: partisanship shapes research fields, journals, and even key policy estimates, e.g. optimal top tax rates vary from 77% (left) to 60% (right) based on imputed partisanship

Paul Krugmans analyse af økonomisk politik i USA kunne lige så godt handle om Danmark

Finally, the structure of incentives in economics and economic policy favors hard-line positions. Politicians who wrongly called for austerity got to give speeches at Davos about the need to make hard choices. We need to make incorrect hardliners pay some reputational price 5/