Alex Busch

Micro evidence on firms' opting out of rigid collective bargaining in Italy finds that opting out reduces wages but increases workers' employment and retention within firms, from Dustmann, Giannetto, Incoronato, Lacava, Pezone, Saggio, and Schoefer https://www.nber.org/papers/w34076

Sehr interessant! Berücksichtigen die Gender Gaps die Stufe innerhalb der Entgeltgruppe (dh Berufserfahrung)?

Vienna is pretty high on my list of liveable cities and so it should be on yours... consider applying

10 days left to apply for our workshop on Economics of Ageing and Pensions 👇

📆 Deadline: July 31

💸 Travel and accommodation will be covered

And a big update to the Stata package is also on the way!

Research Assistantship opportunity for Brazilian (or living/studying in Brazil) MA/PhD Economics students.

We are hiring a RA to support with empirical work in Economics/Applied Econometrics. Expertise in econometric theory would be a big plus. Apply ASAP!

danielegirardi.github.io/posts/RA_cal...

Recently published in @jpube.bsky.social:

"Rubbing shoulders: Class segregation in daily activities"

By Maxim Massenkoff & @natewilmers.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#econsky

Recently published in @jpube.bsky.social:

"Declining earnings inequality, rising income inequality: What explains discordant inequality trends in the United States?"

By @zparolin.bsky.social, @lukaslehner.bsky.social, & @natewilmers.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#econsky

Scary stuff

💡New article out on strikes! I draw on interviews with ever inspiring Starbucks union activists and data from the @laboraction.bsky.social to demonstrate how workers and union activists organize different types of strikes in the United States.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Rumeysa is currently in Louisiana at a for profit detention facility holding ICE detainees.

Please see the fundraising effort for Rumeysa's immigration case
below.

If you would be so inclined to share this link, it would be appreciated. 🙏🏼✊🏼👊🏼💪🏼

chuffed.org/project/just...

Congrats!

🚨New Working Paper:

The Value of Worker Rights in Collective Bargaining

w/ @elliottash.bsky.social , W. Bentley MacLeod & Suresh Naidu

We propose novel NLP methods applied to 30,000 collective bargaining agreements to quantify the value of worker rights.

👉 nber.org/papers/w33605

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Wichtige Einordnung mit Fakten, die bei der Berichterstattung zu RBB in den letzten Tagen&Wochen vollkommen verdrängt wurden!

archive.ph/zp07Z

Neuer Finanzminister von Wien: Marterbauer ist linker Ökonom und Keynes-Fan Markus Marterbauer, ein linker Volkswirt und neuer Finanzminister, setzt sich für Besteuerung Vermögender ein. Mit Fokus auf Sozialsysteme.

Österreichische Politik hält ja immer einige Überraschungen bereit: Der neue Finanzminister ist ein linker Ökonom, Spitzname „Austro-Piketty“. www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/f...

Note to self: Saying 'my friend and co-author' in German will make people believe you're dating your co-author

Und Löschfristen von Daten und Identifiern abschaffen... Es würde mir ja schon reichen, wenn wir nicht aktiv alte Admindaten zerstören müssten!

So sad to see IZA closing! I wish the current staff a smooth transition into new exciting positions elsewhere.

I am hiring a predoc at MIT to start this summer!

We will work on various topics in labor economics - unions, minimum wages, imperfect competition, etc.

Please apply and share !

#predoc @mitiwer.bsky.social #EconSky

apply.interfolio.com/163492

Explaining why the Nordic countries have such low income inequality and discussing the lessons, if any, for other countries, from Magne Mogstad, Kjell G. Salvanes, and Gaute Torsvik https://www.nber.org/papers/w33444

The CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey has monitored the wellbeing of America’s high school students since 1991.

Since 2015, it’s been a vital source of data on LGBQ youth. In 2023, it provided the first ever nationally representative sample of transgender teens.

As of this morning, it’s gone.

Cut taxes or save Social Security? The $5 trillion question Revenues that would go to making the TCJA tax cuts permanent could be used to make Social Security solvent for at least the next 75 years.

New from me and @billgale.bsky.social: Extending Trump's 2017 tax cuts would cost the government a lot of money. How much? We dug into the numbers, and found that allowing these tax cuts to expire would provide enough revenue to keep Social Security solvent - forever. (1/N) 🧵

Nicht einmal Donald Trump in den USA kommt auf die Idee, Amerikaner:innen auszubürgern.
CDU/CDU hingegen wollen morgen die Unterscheidung von Deutschen mit und ohne „deutsches Blut“ wieder einführen, und die ohne „deutsches Blut“ ausbürgern können, wann immer es ihnen beliebt.

Trump Stymies Labor Board by Firing Democrat Gwynne Wilcox (1) President Donald Trump fired National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox in an unprecedented personnel move that prevents the board from deciding cases and appears to violate federal law.

Trump just fired NLRB Member Gwynne Wilcox. The NLRB now lacks a quorum & can't decide cases.

This violates the NLRA, which says Board members can be removed “upon notice and hearing, for neglect of duty or malfeasance in office, but for no other cause.” news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...

Great read!

I'm at Hertie & DIW in Berlin for the next two weeks and will also spend some time in Bonn & Düsseldorf. If someone wants to grab a coffee & talk about labour econ / unions, send me a message!

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. 👇

Tagging @simonjaeger.bsky.social and @schoefer.bsky.social (I don't think Suresh is on Bluesky)

Collective Bargaining, Unions, and the Wage Structure: An International Perspective 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...

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...