Yesterday our column “The gender wage gap and what firms have to do with it” was published at EU VOX | CEPR.
Read it here: share.google/NOefC0E5aJrb...
Full paper: urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-f...
Call for papers -- Wages, Employment and Inequality, part IV. Uppsala Sep 4-5. Keynotes @simonjaeger.bsky.social & Anna Salomons. Also confirmed Alexander Willén and Lena Hensvik. Its the 4th time I do this with @tuomaskosonen.bsky.social, great fun every time - join us! verotutkimus.fi/en/wei-2026/
Not every seminar invitation includes infotmation on optimal offpist ski conditions -- but when they do, I clear my schedule! "Off course you could come after ski season, but why would you want to do that?" Wonderful!
Excited to start as co-editor at the ILR-Review. Hope to see your best work on wages, employment, inequality,... or any other "core" labor market topic. And - unsurprising for those of you who heard my favorite rant - I will never desk reject without a motivation... journals.sagepub.com/home/ilr
Thank you, all WEI III participants, for your valuable contributions and vivid discussions, which made the event a success!
A big hand also to the organisers
@tuomaskosonen.bsky.social @oskarnskans.bsky.social
A brief account on WEI is now on the FIT site! 👇
verotutkimus.fi/en/wei2025/
Wages, Employment & Inequality workshop had a great start with Stephen Machin as the first keynote speaker!🤩
Organisers: @tuomaskosonen.bsky.social & @oskarnskans.bsky.social🫡
Funders: FIT/Research Council of Finland, @vatt-research.bsky.social, YJS Foundation, Handelsbankens Forskningsstiftelser🙏
Following this on TV, the peak of the necessary destruction of Kiruna town center where I grew up. Soon it will be a park there, until cracks from the mine become too severe even for that. Remarkable, as everything about this town in the far north, but also pretty sad... www.bbc.com/news/article...
The picture I posted is from 2015 when he just formally retired because of health issues and we celebrated my inauguration as his successor. Obviously, I never came close to replacing him, but I really felt his support and the memory of the joint celebration still means a lot to me.
One of the amazing things Bertil did was to tell you the date he could review a paper a month in advance, and if you would send him the paper on that day, you had an incredibly insightful report the day after. It should be possible for al of us, but somehow only he could do it.
Bertil was extremely broad, and a true mentor to all of us. His theoretical and empirical contributions covered, e.g., optimal unemployment insurance, taxation, wage setting, and education. He chaired the Nobel Prize committee and was an extremely respected authority in Nordic policy circles.
Extremely sad to learn that former @eale-office.bsky.social president Bertil Holmlund has passed away. Bertil was the founder of the strong Uppsala labor environment. Working with him was a true learning experience. Kind, funny, smart, and unbelievably efficient. He will be deeply missed.
Also consider applying to the twin position within the same cluster, placed at Örebro University www.oru.se/english/care...
PhD position in Labor Economics on AI, Structural change & the Future of Work. A very exciting research group: Uppsala's excellent Labor Econ Environment--integrated with other schools, fields, practitioners, and leading international scholars. Apply now--call is short! uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
The most remarkable aspect of this, in particular in these times, is that the decision was accepted on the Swedish side (despite nationalist idiots protesting loudly), and the two countries lived happily ever after side-by-side as best friends forever without remorse on either side.
📢 We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Employment Research (@iabnews.bsky.social) for our research project on the gig economy! #EconSky
Link: econjobmarket.org/positions/11...
start date: October 2025
Some German knowledge is required.
📢 WE are hiring a Professor in Labor Economics at JKU Linz!
Come and join us! We are a young and active department with a strong focus in applied econ.
Link: tinyurl.com/jkulabor
Please help us spread the word and RT.
Looking forward to the work -- learned so much allready at the application stage from fantastic co-leaders and the other great team members! So, help us find talented young scientists to come work with us!
We will start by recruiting PhD students in Econ and Sociology, and move to Post Docs thereafter, probably starting 2026. More News to come!
Cluster combines our amazing team at Uppsala Econ with sociologists, economists, and business studies people at Mälardalen, Örebro and the Royal institute of technology (KTH). My co-leaders are Moa Bursell (MDU) and Magnus Lodefalk (Örebro). Money is for juniors and senior guest researchers.
🚨 PhD and Post Doc positions incoming 🚨 Received 3 million Euros from WASP-HS for an interdisciplinary (Econ, Sociology, Business) research cluster on AI, Structural Change and the Future of Work. PhD call coming very soon - start Jan 2026, fully funded in an amazing research team w fantastic data!
Dislike that it somehow has become industry standard to not provide a motivation when desk rejecting. I never did this as an editor. It takes time to read and assess, but not to provide a motivation. It is a good lazy test - if you properly assessed the paper, you can write a motivation in 2 minutes
💡 Tinbergen Institute Summer School in Applied Public Policy Evaluation
🎓 Joint with Pierre Koning
⏰ July 7 - July 11 in Amsterdam
💸 Early bird fee until April 15
🖊️ More information and registration at tinbergen.nl/applied-publ...
@tinbergeninstitute.bsky.social
Om man tar USTRs formel för tullar på allvar (vilket man inte borde), och använder de parametrar som litteraturen de citerar kommer fram till, så borde USAs tullar bara vara en fjärdedel så höga.
Som exempelvis Brent Neiman, en av författarna till studien som citeras, påpekat. (1/5)
📢Submit your paper to WEI 2025 now, the DL is March,30!
The Workshop in Labor Economics: Wages, Employment and Inequality in Helsinki in August with Magne Mogstad and Stephen Machin as keynote speakers!
Organisers @tuomaskosonen.bsky.social & @oskarnskans.bsky.social
verotutkimus.fi/en/wei2025/
Scandinavian employees work more from home. Likely causes are high trust and advanced technology. Increases in remote work affect the spatial distribution of local service jobs, from Adam Gill, Lena E. Hensvik, and Oskar Nordström Skans https://www.nber.org/papers/w33581
Ja precis, men poängen är att avgiften, förutom att vara låg vilket gör stt det är en bra bas om vi måste höja intäkterna, är regressiv i sin konstruktion - de med dyrare hus betalar en lägre procentuell avgift.
Vi kan ju börja med att ta bort taket på fastighetsavgiften, så behöver vi inte kalla det fastighetsskatt, mer som att vi slutar särbehandla de med högvärderade fastigheter.
Really cool article in the New York Times on our family home - and such a fun film with one of our brilliant young family guides www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/t...
Dear academic economists! Two weeks left to apply to a position as full professor at the Econ Dept @stockholm-uni.bsky.social. in Sweden, academic - and personal - freedoms are deeply respected. And the microdata is awesome! Deadline March 31! #econsky su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
