Equalizing labor force participation between genders and demographic groups could add millions to US labor force by 2060, potentially offsetting the effects of #aging. #LaborForce #Inclusion 📄👉 www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol... @jku-economics.bsky.social @wifo.bsky.social
"This Bill Will Return Us to an Era of Economic Chaos" www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/o...
Opinion | This Bill Will Return Us to an Era of Economic Chaos
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🧵 1/ 🚨 Job Opening: Join us at Johannes Kepler University Linz! I'm hiring a Pre-Doc / PhD-track Research Assistant in microeconomic theory with a focus on market design & game theory. Perfect for those considering a PhD or looking for a 1–2 year RA position. 👇
A study from JAMA Pediatrics compares states that have permissive gun laws with others that have strict regulations. The states with tougher rules did not see a rise in gun deaths among children and teens.
Guns are the leading cause of death of kids and teens, and state laws matter
A study from JAMA Pediatrics compares states that have permissive gun laws with others that have strict regulations. The states with tougher rules did not see a rise in gun deaths among children and teens.
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Schade um die ehemalige Demokratie USA Trump administration moves to bar Harvard from enrolling foreign students on.ft.com/4kq1bW4 Trump administration moves to bar Harvard from enrolling foreign students
Trump administration moves to bar Harvard from enrolling foreign students
Letter from Department of Homeland Security signals new escalation in stand-off with university
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Austrian government announces €50 million to expand the Job Guarantee scheme in new budget by Finance Minister @markusmarterbauer.bsky.social Based on the evidence of the pilot initiated by @svenhergovich.bsky.social and our evaluation with @maxkasy.bsky.social www.inet.ox.ac.uk/news/austria...
Austrian Government Announces €50 Million to Progress Guaranteed Job…
Programme pioneered by INET Oxford's Lukas Lehner and Max Kasy receives green light for further roll-out.
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📢 Come and work with us! The Department of Economics at JKU Linz invites applications for a full 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗶𝗻 𝗟𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀. Apply by June 18, 2025. Details: www.jku.at/en/the-jku/w... Please share with your network! #Econsky #Academicjobs
More than 80 Harvard faculty members have signed on to a pledge to donate 10% of their paycheck to support staff and students, as long as the University resists Trump's unlawful demands. I am so proud of my colleagues. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Senior Faculty Pledging to Donate a Portion of Salary in Defense of University Community
Senior Faculty Pledging to Donate a Portion of Salary in Defense of University Community We are heartened by the University’s rejection of the Trump administration’s unlawful demands. We also recogn...
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"transparency policies can reduce the gender pay gap with limited costs for firms, but may not be suited to improving women’s outcomes. ... t transparency policies mainly generate pay compression by slowing down the pay growth of better-paid employees" www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Pay Transparency and Gender Equality
(May 2025) - Since 2018, UK firms with at least 250 employees have been mandated to publicly disclose gender equality indicators. Exploiting variations in this mandate across firm size and time, we sh...
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Just posted updated version of our DID textbook! We now have drafts of all chapters, including the one on general designs! Now you can tell your friends still on X that they are DID-outdated :-) Happy easter for those of you that celebrate it. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Credible Answers to Hard Questions: Differences-in-Differences for Natural Experiments
This book introduces applied researchers to modern Differences-in-Differences (DID) methods, that they can use to obtain credible answers to hard causal inferen
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“Two weeks after the [Aix-Marseille University] programme was launched there have been about 100 applications, with researchers from Yale, Nasa and Stanford among those who have expressed interest. The university continues to receive about 10 applications a day” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
European universities offer ‘scientific asylum’ to US researchers fleeing Trump’s cuts
Academics from US hoping to escape funding freezes and ideological impositions are being actively recruited
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Just published in @jpube.bsky.social: "The decline of manufacturing employment and the rise of the far-right in Austria" By @kbekhtiar.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #econsky
#WIFO Research Brief: Der geschlechtsspezifische Lohnunterschied verringerte sich von 19,6% (2011) auf 13,9% (2023). Auch der bereinigte Lohnunterschied sank von 7,8% auf 6,3%. #InternationalWomensDay @rboheim.bsky.social @jku-economics.bsky.social @univie.ac.at buff.ly/iv9fsCP
Wonderful to see Klaus F Zimmermann is now on BlueSky! Please give him a follow. He’s been one of Germany’s and Europe’s most influential economists for the last 30 years, a staunch European and the inaugural director of IZA-Bonn. #EconSky #Germany @kfzimmermann.bsky.social
a blue flag with yellow stars in a circle
ALT: a blue flag with yellow stars in a circle
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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
Home - KSE Charitable Foundation
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The Ukrainian government has a list of places where you can donate to the war effort here. I personally just donated $100: war.ukraine.ua/donate/ Slava Ukraini.
Donate to Ukraine’s defenders
The National Bank of Ukraine has decided to open a special fundraising account to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
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NEW: Nobel Prize-winning economist Eugene Fama argues that #Bitcoin is fundamentally flawed and predicts it has a near-certain chance of becoming worthless within a decade in conversation with @zingales.bsky.social and @bethanymclean.bsky.social on the #Capitalisnt podcast.
Nobel Laureate Eugene Fama Predicts Bitcoin Will Become Worthless - ProMarket
Nobel Prize-winning economist Eugene Fama argues that Bitcoin is fundamentally flawed and predicts it has a near-certain chance of becoming worthless within a decade. In a conversation with Luigi Zing...
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„Dass die FPÖ aber auch auf universitärer Ebene auf Deutsch besteht und vorgeschlagen hat, dass Forschungsarbeiten künftig nur mehr auf Deutsch und nicht in englischer Sprache verfasst werden sollen, geht für die ÖVP zu weit.“ www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
FPÖ-Chef Kickl will Einigung zu Bankenabgabe
Herbert Kickl verhandelt an der zuständigen Gruppe vorbei mit ÖVP-Chef Stocker. Differenzen gibt es auch bei der Landesverteidigung abseits von Sky Shield
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A new arXiv preprint from James Zou suggests that quite a few academics are also using ChatGPT to write their peer reviews. I don't have to explain what an utter shitshow this is going to be, do I?
Monitoring AI-Modified Content at Scale: A Case Study on the...
We present an approach for estimating the fraction of text in a large corpus which is likely to be substantially modified or produced by a large language model (LLM). Our maximum likelihood model...
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📢 Job opening: Paid position in our PhD program (4 years fixed-term) with a very manageable teaching load. Fields: Applied microeconomics, particularly labor economics. Deadline 2025 Jan 29. Please share with your students and RT. #EconSky Details: karriere.jku.at/hcm/jobexcha...
Graduate Teaching Assistant (must hold a Diploma/Master's degree)
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make sure you update your affiliations/handles from time to time #repec
Grow Bluesky@growbluesky.bsky.social · 2y agoThere are now 278 RePEc-registered Economists on Bluesky. It willl be interesting to see how this grows over time. #econsky
The keynote speakers for the Australian Gender Economics Workshop are Prof Paola Profeta (Bocconi) and Prof Doris Weichselbaumer (Linz). Also, the website is now live: t.ly/mWzth. Please join us in Wollongong next year!
AGEW 2025
6–7 February 2025 University of Wollongong
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A model of female labor supply illustrating how various forces discussed in the literature affect the gender earnings gap, from Claudia Olivetti, Jessica Pan, and Barbara Petrongolo https://www.nber.org/papers/w33153
Almost all IDEAS pages now have a Bluesky symbol in the social media ribbon. Clicking on it creates a post including the page URL and, in the case of abstract pages, an image with title, author and abstract. Use this when mentioning an economics paper! ideas.repec.org #EconSky #RePEc
Economics and Finance Research | IDEAS/RePEc
IDEAS is a central index of economics and finance research, including working papers, articles and software code
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Our Rothschild Lecture was a great success. Thanks to everyone who came, our sponsors, and the speaker, Prof Axel Ockenfels!
