Sebastian Königs

Trade union membership & collective bargaining coverage have halved since the 1980s across most #OECD countries, while #employer organisation membership remains stable.

Explore the trends & challenges 👉 oe.cd/6cz

🪜 Very happy to see @jterrerodavila.bsky.social‘s and my work on income mobility using tax record data from 🇦🇹, 🇧🇪, 🇨🇦, and 🇪🇪covered in the LSE #Inequalities blog

@oecdsocial.bsky.social

🪜 Income mobility has been in decline in many OECD countries in recent decades.

I am glad that my research with @sebkoenigs.bsky.social on income mobility using tax records features in the LSE International Inequalities Institute blogpost.

More harmonized administrative data is needed.

Paris Braces for a Future of Possibly Paralyzing Heat

„Paris is particularly ill-adapted to heat waves. A 2023 study published in the London-based medical journal The Lancet deemed it the European capital ​​whose residents were most exposed to heat-related deaths.“ #Paris #climatechange

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/w...

📣 Just released: The @OECD’s Review of Labour Market and Social Policies in #Romania, prepared in the context of Romania’s accession process to OECD.

Find out how #Romania compares to OECD countries in the areas of employment, social and migration policy: oe.cd/686

We're hiring a postdoc in labor economics at IAB Nuremberg! Join @ineshelmecon.bsky.social, @jnimczik.bsky.social & me on a project about gig work.

🗓️ Start: 1 Oct 25
💶 Salary ≥ €5200/month

🌱 Possibility to apply for tenure track program

Apply here until 17 June: econjobmarket.org/positions/11...

Home This workshop is designed to bring together PhD candidates from diverse fields to explore and discuss their latest research on economic inequality. The workshop provides a platform to share research i...

PhD students studying #inequality! Check out this online PhD Workshop, scheduled for July 2, 2025. Application deadline is June 8. Call-for-papers link below. Hosted by #ECINEQ. Direct questions to ecineqphd@gmail.com.

@stone-lis.bsky.social @lisdata.bsky.social

sites.google.com/view/phdwork...

Just learned something new. You can buy spurious citations that will show up on Google Scholar -- and people do.

As children’s digital lives evolve, so must our approach to their #WellBeing.
Discover the new OECD report that dives into how to empower kids to take advantage of new opportunities online, while protecting them from potential risks.
🔗 oe.cd/622

📣 Just released: The @OECD’s Review of Labour Market and Social Policies in #Bulgaria, prepared in the context of Bulgaria’s accession process to OECD.

Find out how Bulgaria compares to OECD countries in the areas of employment, social and migration policy: oe.cd/60u

Unsplash image of the Earth, mostly the nightside with a tracery of city lights on every continent.

OK, this is wild.

In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.

It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.

What the HELL?

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You will not regret investing these two minutes of attention: Europe at its finest. 🫡🇪🇺🥲
(Sound on!)

OECD housing internship_Summer-Fall 2025 | Marissa (Ellis) Plouin We're looking for a top-notch #intern to join the housing team in OECD Social, ideally based in Paris from summer through fall 2025. We're looking for someone who is:  🏠 interested in #afforda...

📢 Great #internship opportunity in a wonderful team in @oecdsocial.bsky.social for students interested in #affordablehousing, #socialhousing and #homelessness 🏠

🙏 Please circulate and apply!
@alibargu.bsky.social

www.linkedin.com/posts/mariss...

A map of rainfall distribution across Europe with western Scotland and Norway looking particularly bad

Rainfall distribution across Europe. London not so bad.

Spannendes Gespräch. Ich hab einiges dazugelernt!

„We find that [future] elites implement more unequal earnings distributions than the average American, are highly sensitive to both merit-based inequality and efficiency costs of redistribution, and are less likely to hold strict meritocratic views.“ #inequality @iza.org

www.iza.org/publications...

Votation du 23 mars : 65,96% des votants pour piétonniser et végétaliser 500 nouvelles rues La troisième votation organisée à Paris portait sur la végétalisation et la piétonnisation de 500 nouvelles rues. Les habitants de sept arrondissements étaient par ailleurs invités à répondre à des qu...

Striking cleavage in the results of the recent #Paris referendum on further greening the city: 🗳️ 🌳

In the (left-leaning) 10e and 11e arrondissement 83% and 79% of votes in favour of the motion; in the (right-leaning) 7e and 16e arrondissement 66% and 73% against it.

www.paris.fr/pages/nouvel...

Paris: Referendum könnte mehr als 500 Straßen autofrei machen Zigtausend Parkplätze könnten wegfallen – und die Menschen mehr Grün gewinnen: Am Sonntag findet in Paris eine Abstimmung statt, die das Antlitz der Stadt verändern könnte.

„In #Paris könnten 500 Straßen autofrei werden. Zigtausend Parkplätze könnten wegfallen – und die Menschen mehr Grün gewinnen: Am Sonntag findet in Paris eine Abstimmung statt, die das Antlitz der Stadt verändern könnte.“

www.spiegel.de/auto/paris-r...

This is indeed being done. Is there any empirical evidence though that such messages have any effect on customers?

The New Geography of Labor Markets Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

„Mean distance from employee home to employer worksite rose from 15 miles in 2019 to 26 miles in 2023. Twelve percent of employees hired after March 2020 live at least fifty miles from their employers in 2023, triple the pre-pandemic share.“

www.nber.org/papers/w33582

„This paper investigates self-reported wedges between how much people work and how much they want to work, at their current wage. More than two-thirds of full-time workers in German survey data are overworked—actual hours exceed desired hours.“

ODI Fellowship Scheme 2025-27 Job Opening: ODI Fellowship Scheme 2025-27 at ODI Global in Global.

If you're young and are interested in international development, it is hard to beat doing an ODI Fellowship

careers.odi.org/postings/71e...

It is a rare opportunity for foreigners to work as a civil servant in a low or lower-middle income country

Why is this a good idea? 👇

📢 I am delighted to share that the #OECD ELS Directorate is now active on Bluesky, posting here about our work on #employment, #social, #migration, and #health policy… and of course on #inequality 🌎

@oecdsocial.bsky.social

This morning, @sncf-voyageurs.bsky.social and @alstom.bsky.social finally unveiled the brand-new #TGVM to the public!

Let’s take a look inside the latest generation of high-speed trains 🚄🇫🇷

A thread 👇

🌡 New on @ourworldindata.org:

We added global temperature anomaly charts *coloured by El Nino / La Nina periods*.

Today's "cool" years are warmer than "warm" years of the past.

[New article and charts by my colleague Veronika Samborska and I: ourworldindata.org/global-tempe... ]

📣 We are excited to share the launch of LACIR x Oxford Open Economics: Rethinking Inequality in Latin America.

The culmination of a multi-year collaboration between over 70 scholars, the papers in this issue ask: why does inequality endure? And what forces sustain it?

🔗 buff.ly/661Df1W

A bar graph of inequality in the EU showing decomposition by country, post-tax/transfer income in 2007 and 2019. Within-country inequality rises between 2007-2019 while between-country inequality falls. Between 2007 and 2019, inequality within many EU countries increased, while inequality between countries declined. This column examines these seemingly contradictory trends, as well as the role played by market inequality and redistribution. Most of the progress has been driven by rising labour incomes in lower-income countries. Changes in employment, education, and demographics had a minor impact on reducing inequality. By more effectively targeting disadvantaged regions and vulnerable groups, cohesion policy can help counteract rising within-country inequality. A harmonised tax transfer system across countries or a more centralised fiscal framework can play a crucial role in shaping EU-wide inequality.

Less income #inequality between #EU states is driven by labour incomes in lower-income countries. A more centralised fiscal framework can play a crucial role in shaping EU-wide inequality.
@stefanofilauro.bsky.social @zparolin.bsky.social @pietrovaletto.bsky.social
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
#EconSky

St Pancras plans for direct trains from UK to Germany The London station's owner and Eurotunnel hope to expand routes to Cologne, Frankfurt and Switzerland.

“Getlink believes it is possible for train services to Bordeaux, Cologne, Frankfurt, Geneva, Marseille and Zurich to be created.”

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Nearly one in 10 adults in the U.S. identifies as LGBTQ, according to a large analysis from Gallup released Thursday — almost triple the share since Gallup began counting in 2012, and up by two-thirds since 2020. nyti.ms/42ZZGIN

Looks charming. Where is this?