Happy Labor Day! I am happy to share that tomorrow I will join the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago as a Senior Economist in the Microeconomics group.

Great news! IZA (the German labor economics institute that had lost its main source of financial support) has found a new home and will continue as a convener and disseminator of knowledge. Hurrah!

Really very happy to attend the NBER SI, and for our paper on the role of firms in explaining the gender wage gap - with harmonized data from 11 countries - to be included in the joint Gender & Labor session this morning! Come say hi and enjoy @marcogpalladino.bsky.social's presentation!

Upjohn Institute's @martalachowska.bsky.social ’s paper will be presented at the @nberpubs Summer Institute 2025 Labor Studies conference in Cambridge, MA., on 7/22. The findings are based on “Firms and the Gender Wage Gap: A Comparison of Eleven Countries.” Conference runs 7/21–23. #NBER #econsky

SI 2025 Labor Studies

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Forthcoming in the AER: "Employers and Unemployment Insurance Take-Up" by Marta Lachowska, Isaac Sorkin, and Stephen A. Woodbury. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Employers and Unemployment Insurance Take-Up

(Forthcoming Article) - We quantify the employer’s role in unemployment insurance (UI) take-up. Employer effects on claiming and appeals are substantial, and those effects are negatively correlated, c...

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The deadline to apply to the W.E. Upjohn Institute’s dissertation award is soon! Please apply if your dissertation is on policy-relevant & employment-related issues! Link: upjohn.org/sites/defaul... #EconSky @upjohninstitute.bsky.social @aaronsojourner.org

Join us today in welcoming Alfonso Flores-Lagunes as our new Vice President and Director of Research. Flores-Lagunes was previously a professor of economics at the Maxwell School, and a senior research associate in the Center for Policy Research, at Syracuse University.

Alfonso Flores-Lagunes joins Upjohn Institute as Vice President and Director of Research

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David Roodman has written a new Stata package that replicates `reghdfe` using Julia. The new implementation requires installing Julia but is about 10x faster. Details available here: www.statalist.org/forums/forum... #EconSky