Valeria Rueda

Excellent papers and excellent weather in Lund for the #WEHC2025. Looking forward to more!

Thank you for these kind words!

These attacks on Harvard have a flavour of Orbán’s slashing of the CEU. Nauseating.

T10E3: Billy Elliot Podcast Episode · Capital y Trabajo · 05/21/2025 · 53m

Continuando con la semana de anuncios...
🎙️ ¡Nuevo episodio de Capital y Trabajo!
Conversamos con @valerueda.bsky.social sobre Billy Elliot. Hablamos de desigualdad regional, desindustrialización y roles de género en una película tan conocida como cargada de temas.
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This seminar is in a few minutes.
Learn about crisis bargaining in international relations, surplus extraction, and... salami-slicing.

Chart showing total gross fixed capital formation as a proportion of GDP: advanced OECD economies and G7, 1995 to 2022. It is only relatively recently that the UK has surpassed the public investment levels of even low investors such as Germany and Italy.

Public investment in the UK has lagged behind average OECD levels for over two decades.

Read more ➡️ buff.ly/iPgoNzv

There’s one slight issue with Labour’s immigration plans: they’re completely untethered from reality | Jonathan Portes The government’s new policy will take us back to an uglier, more dangerous place – and it’s not even supported by the data, says professor of public policy Jonathan Portes

"Migrants.... are overall more likely to be in work and have slightly higher wages. It follows almost automatically that their short-term impact is to boost, not reduce, GDP per capita. Indeed, that’s exactly what the ONS says.”

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Oh and don’t say that the goal is to only make it harder for low-skilled migrants. These reforms trigger difficult and expensive processes for all migrants, which particularly discourages skilled migrants who have other options in more welcoming countries just on the other side of the channel.

On the fiscal impact of migrants to the UK: migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/br...

Fact: Migrants have an average positive impact on the economy. Cutting immigration is costly.
It will make it *harder* to revert austerity, create growth, and reduce inequality. Wasn’t that the government’s goal?
Starmer’s new rhetoric is based on lies. Excellent explainer here :

On the fiscal impact of immigrants: migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/br...

En el tercer episodio conversaremos sobre desigualdades regionales, desindustrializacion y roles de genero junto con @valerueda.bsky.social a proposito de "Billy Elliot".

🚨 Call for applications - Research Assistant 🚨

Valeria Rueda @valerueda.bsky.social and I are recruiting someone to work on projects on "Violence and narratives in Colombia"

Looking for students interested in pol econ/dev, with a good knowledge of Colombian history

Deadline: April 15

Deadline today!

Submit before this Monday!

Don’t forget to submit your papers before next Monday!

📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣
NICEP Conference
What: Interdisciplinary research in Econ & Politics
📆 May 12-13 -- Submit before March 3rd
📍 Nottingham, UK
Confirmed: Diego Gambetta, Maria Petrova, Sandra Sequeira & Stéphane Wolton
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📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣
NICEP Conference
What: Interdisciplinary research in Econ & Politics
📆 May 12-13 -- Submit before March 3rd
📍 Nottingham, UK
Confirmed: Diego Gambetta, Maria Petrova, Sandra Sequeira & Stéphane Wolton
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"Opposition to identity politics is often built not by the culturally and ethnically diverse working class who benefit but by lower-ability economic elites who feel that their advantage is under threat."

Congratulations @boesevanessa.bsky.social from @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social, @valerueda.bsky.social

The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books To read a book in college, it helps to have read a book in high school.

It's happened to me for the first time. A number of students complained about having to read 1 full book for the semester. Am I antiquated in feeling this is a problem? www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

On Monday, you are cordially invited to this timely talk by Arianna Ornaghi
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Don’t miss the deadline for submitting your papers! Submit before Sunday March 25th

And here is the link to the seminar on Monday 3pm UK time: mailchi.mp/e9c8659a3242...

⚠️CALL FOR PAPERS⚠️
NICEP Conference
What: Interdisciplinary research in Econ & Politics
When: May 13-14
Submit before March 25
Where: Nottingham UK
Confirmed: Oriana Bandiera, Ernesto Dal Bò, Garance Génicot & Mathias Thoenig
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📢Exciting News Alert! 

Calling all female researchers in Political Economics! Join our network of Women in Political Economics

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Our next talk is on Monday, 27 Nov 2023 Margherita Negri (St Andrews) presents "The Political Economy of Open vs Closed Borders: Theory and Evidence on the Role of Electoral Rules", with Matteo Gamalerio and Massimo Morelli

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This matters! This shows that activism is a powerful vector of political socialisation, both for those involved with the group but more importantly also for those who come in contact with them through positive interactions. 🧵3/3