@schoefer.bsky.social
Economics professor at UC Berkeley https://eml.berkeley.edu/~schoefer/
What does consulting do? Lots of strongly held views, very limited data to answer the question.
In new NBER paper, Gert Bijnens, @schoefer.bsky.social and I shed light on this question using the first economy-wide data on consulting relationships (based on VAT-based B2B data).
More info👇
Collective bargaining shapes labor markets, yet we know little about its effects. In our new WP, we track workers shifted to contracts with lower wage floors: wages fall, but employment rises, suggesting adjustments along the firm's labor demand curve.
30.07.2025 13:44 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper: Christian Dustmann, Chiara Giannetto, Lorenzo Incoronato, @chiaralac.bsky.social, Vincenzo Pezone, Raffaele Saggio and @schoefer.bsky.social present micro-empirical evidence on the effects of wage-setting decentralization. 🧵👇
30.07.2025 09:32 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Amerika hat Europa wirtschaftlich abgehängt. Viel ist schon über die Gründe philosophiert worden. Hier kommt ein neuer (aber eigentl. sehr alter) Vorschlag von @schoefer.bsky.social: Der Arbeitsmarkt ist das Problem. Europäer wechseln selten den Job. Der Staat gibt ihnen aber auch wenig Grund dazu.
27.07.2025 14:43 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Das war er ‒ der 20. IWH/IAB-Workshop zur Arbeitsmarktpolitik: Arbeitskräfteknappheit und Arbeitsmarktinstitutionen. Mit spannenden Präsentationen, regem Austausch und gelungener Keynote von @schoefer.bsky.social. Danke an alle Beteiligten, Gäste und unseren Mitstreiter @iabnews.bsky.social.
16.05.2025 11:32 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
20. IWH/IAB-Workshop zur Arbeitsmarktpolitik: Arbeitskräfteknappheit und Arbeitsmarktinstitutionen
📍 @iwh-halle.bsky.social, Halle (Saale)
📅 15./16. Mai 2025
Keynote: Benjamin @schoefer.bsky.social (UC Berkeley)
➡ Infos & Programm: bit.ly/4i2FZVn
➡ Registrierung (bis 25. April): bit.ly/3PWtiir
Call for Papers
Picture from 1st edition
📢 *Updated* Call for Paper 📢
2nd workshop in Labour Economics at Nottingham GEP @uniofnottingham.bsky.social
When: June 16-17, 2025
Keynotes: @schoefer.bsky.social and Alexandra Roulet
Small workshop, great opportunity for feedback!
Submit by March 15 🗓️
Link: t.ly/e4dtL
#EconSky #EconConf
✨✨Important Updates!✨✨
2nd Labour Workshop in Nottingham
🎵Amazing Keynotes: @schoefer.bsky.social and Alexandra Roulet
🗺️Where: @uniofnottingham.bsky.social
📆When: 16-17 June
Submit by March 15 ➡️shorturl.at/TZqG0
How do unions and collective bargaining work around the world? And how do they affect the wage structure?
A new paper with Suresh Naidu and Benjamin Schoefer
@schoefer.bsky.social out NBER WP today and prepared for the Handbook of Labor Economics.
Thread below. 👇
New paper
w/ @simonjaeger.bsky.social & Suresh Naidu
An attempt at an account of how unions/collective bargaining work and shape wages, across various international settings.
In prep for Handbook of Labor => please email us any feedback!
www.nber.org/papers/w33267
eml.berkeley.edu/~schoefer/sc...
Don't miss this enormous overview of collective bargaining literature and institutions + a model of how unions shape wages applied to 26 countries! My final pre-doc RA'ed project is finally out - including a little preview of something that I've been working on :)
www.nber.org/papers/w3326...
Our paper (w/ Jarkko Harju and @schoefer.bsky.social ) on what happened when Finland introduced a right to worker representation on corporate boards, now in @aeajournals.bsky.social: Applied. 👇
21.12.2024 17:20 — 👍 45 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0How do employers and workers behave during dismissals?
In a new paper with @schoefer.bsky.social, we test between cooperation and deliberate imposition of costs.
Summary 🧵:
1/9
Excited to share a new paper w/ Matthias Mertens:
From Labor to Intermediates: Firm Growth, Input Substitution, and Monopsony
Also: implications for firm-level labor share dynamics.
PDFs:
www.nber.org/papers/w33172
eml.berkeley.edu/~schoefer/sc...
Longer Twitter summary:
x.com/Schoefer_B/s...
Just in time for our departure en masse, REStat tweeted our article in the Sep issues. Cross posted for #econsky:
New fact: 75% of the differences in productivity across cities reflects plant-level idiosyncrasies.
t.co/fo633CbMXU
Lead article, so it’s open access!
New paper!
15.10.2023 15:09 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0How many jobs are "deadwood"?
Which ones?
Where?
What role do firing costs and employment protections play?
In our new paper (w/ Benjamin Schoefer, Emmanuel Saez), we find some answers:
Deadwood Labor:
The Effects of Eliminating Employment Protection
PDF:
eml.berkeley.edu/~schoefer/sc...