Xenia Tsoukli
@xenia-tsoukli.bsky.social
Postdoc at the University of Bamberg • economic history, gender, labor, development • she/her • 🇬🇷 in 🇩🇪
Save the date! The fifth annual Scotland and Northern England Conference in Applied Microeconomics will be held from 5-7 May 2026 at the Crieff Hydro Hotel in Perthshire. Professor Steve Machin (LSE) will deliver the keynote. For more info: applied-microecon.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/sane-worksho...
“It would be unthinkable for urban firefighters… to enter a burning building without wearing a mask. But across the country, tens of thousands of people who fight wildfires spend weeks working in toxic smoke and ash wearing only a cloth bandanna, or nothing at all.”
Wildfire Fighters, Unmasked in Toxic Smoke, Are Getting Sick and Dying
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📢 New publication alert! Paul Sharp, @christianvedel.bsky.social e, @xenia-tsoukli.bsky.social , and Eoin Mclaughting have published a new article: "Ireland in a Danish mirror: A microlevel comparison of the productivity of Danish and Irish creameries before the First World War"🇮🇪🇩🇰🐮
CfP: 14th Annual Workshop on Growth, History, and Development 1/ 📚 Join us as we reflect on 150 Years of Women’s University Education in Denmark (1875–2025)! This year’s theme celebrates progress, explores ongoing challenges, and envisions future directions for women in academia and beyond.
Gender differences in reservation wages: New evidence for Germany www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... "the gaps are larger at the top of the reservation wage distribution as well as among individuals with children and with a high educational attainment"
Gender differences in reservation wages: New evidence for Germany
Generally, women set lower reservation wages than men what may translate into substantial gender pay gaps in the labor market. This paper compares bot…
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What can we learn from historical pandemics? A systematic review of the literature by @ainedoran.bsky.social, @cliochris.bsky.social & @eoinaldo.bsky.social. New and #OA! doi.org/10.1016/j.so... 🛟 📗📉📈🗃#Episky #history #demography #polisky #geosky #sociology #anthro #HistSci #AcademicSky
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Thank you, ERC for the chance to study sexual harassment prevention with a consolidator grant! Yay!! Looking forward to working with wonderful colleagues on this important topic.
Collective action WORKS Falk is OUT at IZA Kudos to those who led the way https://www.deutsche-post-stiftung.org/wc/files/DPS-IZA_20231120_en.pdf
617 of 1700 IZA fellows have signed this letter, including Nobel Prize and Clark Award winners If you are a fellow who loves the network and has not signed, please understand the status quo is not an option if Falk takes over, 1/3 of the fellows are gone The network you value is gone
Prof Dynarski@dynarski.bsky.social · 3y agoThere are 1700 IZA Research Fellows worldwide 436 out of the 1700 have signed a letter committing to resign on Jan 1 if Armin Falk is elevated to IZA's top leadership This was organized in just a few days
The open letter from 400+ IZA fellows to the Deutsche Post Foundation in response to the new leadership announcement at IZA is online: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Letter Deutsche Post Foundation
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Joshua Goodman@joshua-goodman.com · 3y agoIf you're a senior male economist and would be interested in discussing the drafting of an open letter re the newly announced IZA leadership change, e-mail me. Female econs are rightly tired of the burden of such efforts falling on them.
If you're a senior male economist and would be interested in discussing the drafting of an open letter re the newly announced IZA leadership change, e-mail me. Female econs are rightly tired of the burden of such efforts falling on them.
Workshop happening this Friday in Trondheim: Child abandonment and gender discrimination in the past sites.google.com/view/missing...
"Women spend so much more energy being nice to people in the workplace! When will they ever get credit for that?!” This audience question is common in our public talks about research on gender equality in the labor market. Our new paper gives striking evidence on this point. 1/7
My recent paper in Economic Journal: In the Econ job market men and women are recommended differently: letters for women stress hard work, those for men more likely highlight brilliance. This affects job placement. Link to Paper: t.co/HUieaMuERd With Giovanni Facchini and Markus Eberhardt
