My paper "The relationship between intergenerational mobility and equality of opportunity" with Gunnar Brandén and Martin Nybom is now out in early access at the Scandinavian Journal of Economics. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The relationship between intergenerational mobility and equality of opportunity

Among economists, the analysis of social mobility and the role of parental background is largely carried out in two separate strands of research. The intergenerational mobility literature estimates p....

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New WP: "Understanding occupational wage growth", with Georg Graetz, Simon Ek, and Yaroslav Yakymovych. We estimate time-varying occupation-specific wage premia and life-cycle wage profiles, and document worker re-sorting which counteracted growing wage inequality. www.ifau.se/en/Research/...

If you haven't already switched search engine, now might be a good time. I've been very happy with @kagi.com. It's a subscription, but I'd much rather pay with my money than with my data.

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Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.

Gender Gaps Under Comparable Tasks: Evidence from Quasi-Random Assignment. New Working paper by Negar Khaliliaraghi, Petter Lundborg and Johan Vikström. www.ifau.se/en/Press/Abs...

We're thrilled to open registration for the Utrecht Replication Games. The event will be at the at the University of Utrecht on June 4th. Psych, public health, pol sci and econ studies will be reproduced! Register here: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/Replicatio...

Rewarding experiences? - Immigrant wage returns to host country employment New Working paper by Zeynep Atabay and Olof Åslund. www.ifau.se/en/Press/Abs...

Parental leave quotas and workplace spillovers. New Working paper by Malin Tallås Ahlzén. www.ifau.se/en/Press/Abs...

Can workers switch it up? - Organizational forms in the Swedish preschool sector New Working paper by Karin Edmark and Lovisa Persson. www.ifau.se/en/Press/Abs...

Our next online talk is on Monday, 3 Nov 2025. 💥Leah Boustan💥 (Princeton) will present "Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in 15 Destination Countries". This is a joint work with many co-authors (👇). Visit our webpage to learn more sites.google.com/view/polecon...

New @ifau.bsky.social WP out with Martin Nybom and Gunnar Brandén: www.ifau.se/Forskning/Pu... The social mobility literature has organized around three types of measures: intergenerational regressions, sibling correlations, and equality of opportunity (EOp) indices. 1/4

Daughters of immigrants are more upwardly mobile than daughters of locals in most destinations. Sons of immigrants are only more upwardly mobile outside of continental Europe, from Boustan, Fjællegaard Jensen, Abramitzky, Jácome, et al https://www.nber.org/papers/w33558

We're hiring a researcher: www.ifau.se/Om-IFAU/ledi... Note that knowing Swedish is a requirement this time.

I just donated to the KSE. Please consider donating to the Ukraine as well! Also check @tderyugina.bsky.social’s information: deryugina.com/how-you-can-...

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It was time to donate again to the 🇺🇦 Kyiv School of Economics led by the amazing @tymofiibrik.bsky.social and @mylovanov.bsky.social 🇺🇦 If you want to support KSE in these tough times 👇 foundation.kse.ua/en

After a long wait, the working paper for the Many-Economists Project: The Sources of Researcher Variation in Economics. We had 146 teams perform the same research three times, each time with less freedom. What source of freedom leads to different choices and results? papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

🚨One more week to apply to the 2025 Berkeley Stone Center Summer School on Inequality A unique program geared towards students at the beginning of their PhD, taught by leading scholars in the field, all costs covered! Deadline: Feb. 28 👇👇👇 sites.google.com/berkeley.edu...

1/ 🚨 New paper! 🚨 How do the economic trajectories of children of immigrants vary across 15 high-income countries? We study intergenerational mobility of immigrants, using individual-level linked parent-child data across Europe, North America, and beyond. 🧵👇 #EconSky

This week we're excited to have @adrianadermon.bsky.social from @ifau.bsky.social visiting us! Tomorrow Adrian will give a seminar on their all-star project on "The Intergenerational Mobility of Children of Immigrants" 🤩 Welcome to Växjö, Adrian!

Thanks to all who assisted. I have put links and brief descriptions on my webpage. Please let me know if I should add/change anything: sites.google.com/view/jonasvl...

Jonas Vlachos@jonasvlachos.bsky.social · 2y ago

Dear social scientists! Please direct me to data sources (not the least microdata) that are available to students at the undergrad and master's level. I have already LIS and ILSA (PISA, TIMSS etc) on my list. #econsky #economics #data

🚨🚨🚨To all researchers in Stockholm/Uppsala: submit your paper to the 7th Stockholm-Uppsala Education Ecnomics Workshop on May 5 in Uppsala. More information and submission: jansauermann.github.io/educworkshop... Submission deadline: March 1, 2025

IFAU (@ifau.bsky.social) is now on Bluesky #EconSky 📉📈 Please give it a follow if you are into research on labor markets, education and related fields!

Position as professor in economics (any field) at Stockholm University, Department of Economics. Apply by March 31. Annons på svenska: su.varbi.com/se/what:job/... Ad in English: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... #econsky #economics

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One of the best things about #RePEc is that you can get weekly emails with new papers presorted by topic ("NEP"). I edit the newsletter for NEP Gender which you can now also subscribe to on Bluesky @repec-nep-gen.bsky.social #EconSky 📉📈 @czimm-economist.bsky.social

Christian Zimmermann@czimm-economist.bsky.social · 2y ago

New RePEc feature for Bluesky! Get new paper announcements from NEP in 100 different fields. Find them all on this starter pack bsky.app/starter-pack... and soon the links to the accounts will be at nep.repec.org #RePEc #EconSky

Bluesky is a PBC (public benefit corporation) with the mission “to develop and drive large-scale adoption of technologies for open and decentralized public conversation.” From the start, our goal has been to build a decentralized social network that is usable by the mainstream.

My paper with Sebastian Butschek on employment protection and firms' hiring behavior is now out in print in the new Journal of Human Resources jhr.uwpress.org/content/59/6... - ungated version is available here: jansauermann.github.io/papers/Butsc... #EconSky 📉📈

The Effect of Employment Protection on Firms’ Worker Selection

To estimate the causal effect of employment protection on firms’ worker selection, we study a policy change that reduced dismissal costs for the employers of more than a tenth of Sweden’s workforce. O...

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Musk was the final straw that made me leave X for good. Bu there's a more general lesson to be learned: a centralized social network is a terrible idea. This was evident on Twitter even before Musk bought it, and it's been evident on Facebook for a long time.

We are hiring at @ifo_Institut: 4 6-year-Positions "Big Data Economics": Researchers in any field of economics who leverage state-of-the-art machine learning or causal inference methods and/or use innovative (incl. large) datasets econjobmarket.org/positions/11... #EconJobMarket #EconSky

For all researchers in economics in Stockholm and Uppsala, I have compiled a list with (almost) all economics seminars in the region: jansauermann.github.io/seminars.html #EconSky 📉📈

We have a position for post-doc(s) at IFAU in Uppsala: www.ifau.se/Om-IFAU/ledi... Come and work with us! #econ_ra #EconSky 📉📈

I created an #EconSky 📉📈 starter pack for researchers, institutes and departments in/from Sweden. Go and check it out here (and DM me if I missed to include you): go.bsky.app/Sz1jgZX

As suggested by @jamesfeigenbaum.bsky.social, here's a thread version of "An objective ranking of econ journal cover designs" Enjoy!