När ett företag anställer i ett yrke som inte tidigare funnits på arbetsplatsen betalar de högre ingångslöner och rekryterar mer selektivt. De som anställs har längre arbetslivserfarenhet och rekryteras oftare från en annan arbetsgivare Nytt WP idag av @dgulumser.bsky.social @rfberlin.bsky.social

🚨 New paper out as an RFBerlin Discussion Paper: "Old and New Jobs: Understanding Wage Formation, Sorting, and Firm Behavior" How do firms hire into newly created roles — and how does this shape wages? 🧵 📄 www.rfberlin.com/network-pape...

🧵Why don’t immigrants benefit as much from big cities? A new discussion paper by @gablucche.bsky.social shows that the city-size wage premium is much smaller for immigrants than for natives. Here’s what’s going on 👇

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...

True cross-disciplinary work: look what happens when research excellence in trauma met classic models of economic assimilation - trauma reactions is a measurable and quantitatively important part of the refugee integration story

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🧠New RFBerlin Research Insight! Why do some refugees struggle to find work? Often, the barrier isn't language or skills, it's trauma. @mettefoged.bsky.social, Karen-Inge Karstoft & Edith Zink show that PTSD leaves a lasting mark on employment. Read more: www.rfberlin.com/research-ins...

🧠New RFBerlin Research Insight! Why do some refugees struggle to find work? Often, the barrier isn't language or skills, it's trauma. @mettefoged.bsky.social, Karen-Inge Karstoft & Edith Zink show that PTSD leaves a lasting mark on employment. Read more: www.rfberlin.com/research-ins...

Why Some Refugees Struggle to Work: The Role of Early Signs of PTSD - RFBerlin

Refugees often have lower employment rates than natives and other migrants. One important reason may be exposure to severe trauma, which can affect how people function in daily life and make it harder...

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Our 2025 event highlights: ✨ Annual Public Lecture by Nobel Laureate Claudia Goldin 📊 Annual Labour Economics Symposium with CEPR 🌍 Migration Forum 2025 📈 Workshop in Italy with CReAM 💼 Conference on Worker Co-Determination Thanks to everyone involved! See our 2026 events: www.rfberlin.com/events/

Join us on 4 November for the RFBerlin Annual Public Lecture: “Why Women Won” by Nobel Laureate Claudia Goldin. 🎟️ Register now: form.typeform.com/to/j3BaW2OV Discover how women’s roles in work and society have evolved and what challenges remain More about the event: www.rfberlin.com/event/why-wo...

Why Women Won by Claudia Goldin

Following the success of our first public lecture, we are pleased to announce the next RFBerlin Annual Public Lecture, organized in collaboration with the Humboldt University of Berlin! This year, RFB...

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🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper: Peter Fredriksson, @dgulumser.bsky.social, and @lenahensvik.bsky.social study whether and why differential wage responsiveness to outside offers contributes to the gender wage gap within job. 🧵

🚨 Excited to share a new CEPR Discussion Paper (No. 20638) 🚨 “Outside Job Opportunities and the Gender Gap in Pay” with Peter Fredriksson and @lenahensvik.bsky.social. Read here: cepr.org/publications... A thread 👇

Female PhD students (in economics) benefit tremendously from having female faculty around. When female professors go on leave, it decreases third-year female PhD students’ likelihood of publishing & securing academic positions. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

New NBER WP (forthcoming book chapter) with @adam-gill.bsky.social and Lena Hensvik on the very high rates of work-from-home in all Nordic countries -- already before the pandemic. Some likely causes, and some consequences for service workers www.nber.org/papers/w33581

Why Are Nordic Workers so Remote?: Potential Causes and (Some) Indirect Labor Market Consequences

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...

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Submit your "core" labor economics papers (wages, employment..) to this great workshop I co-organize for the third time - join with, e.g., Cardoso, Machin, Mogstad and Spitz-Oener for some serious Labor Economics in Helsinki in August!

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Coming up: WEI 2025 - the popular Workshop in Labor Economics: Wages, Employment and Inequality in Helsinki in August with Magne Mogstad & Stephen Machin as keynote speakers! Submit your paper by 30 March! verotutkimus.fi/en/wei2025/ Organisers:@tuomaskosonen.bsky.social @oskarnskans.bsky.social

Apply to the Uppsala econ Ph.D. Program! We run a US-style program with generous pay, opportunities to spend time abroad, and lots of supervision. To convince you, let me highlight some of amazing work by our recent graduates. uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Amin Hussain is on the market this year. His JMP makes important contributions to the pricing of multi-use drugs. Let me explain why sites.google.com/view/aminhus...

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I am a 5th Year PhD Economics Student at Uppsala University. Research Interests: Micro-theory and Mechanism Design with applications to Health and Political Economy

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Hi #EconSky! I’m a PhD Candidate in Economics at Uppsala University. My #EconJMP investigates how firms’ previous employment experience in a particular occupation affects hiring standards, wages, and post-hiring outcomes. Find out more about my research here: sites.google.com/view/dogangu...

🚨Out now: Our new OECD working paper on the gender wage gap and the role of bargaining and discrimination. 📄Read now: doi.org/10.1787/1fd6...