Valeria Rueda

@valerueda.bsky.social

Associate Prof at UoNottingham. Econ, History, Politics, & Development. I like chocolate and maps. Colombian & French enjoying the British sun. ☮️

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 :

Simon Wren-Lewis@sjwrenlewis.bsky.social · last yr.

New post: Starmer’s Disgraceful and Damaging Remarks mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/05/star... As with austerity in the 2010s, if none of the main parties can be honest about immigration then the public debate will be equally dishonest.

"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."

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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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Hi, time for me to get active on #EconSky I am an economist at the research institute VIVE in Copenhagen 🇩🇰 and at Uni of Bristol 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿. I work on topics in education, health, and gender. To introduce myself I will live-tweet from a research project. It will be a slow thread. [1/n]