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

ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin@rfberlin.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🧠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...

Everyone interested in economics of language and language policy: Submit your paper! Looking forward to new insights and inspiring discussions and thrilled to give a keynote

Eva Markowsky@emarkowsky.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🎤 Keynote speakers: @mettefoged.bsky.social (U Copenhagen): Language training & barriers to language learning in migration contexts Carsten Quell (Treasury Board of Canada): Language policy in diverse Canada (2/4)

Sudden displacement crises temporarily overwhelm steady-state accommodation systems. In a new paper, we document that pop-up shelters and private hosting scaled fast and housed the vast majority of arrivals during the peak of the Ukrainian displacement crisis (1/2)

ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin@rfberlin.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Mette Foged, Jens Hainmueller, @mstahlschmidt.bsky.social & Edith Zink show how initial accommodation conditions shape refugee integration, using quasi-experimental evidence from Ukrainians in Denmark. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! @rlandersoe.bsky.social & @kbkarlson.bsky.social examine intergenerational educational mobility among immigrants and their descendants in Denmark. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

Does rhetorical othering affect the identity of the targeted minority? @teresafmonteiro.bsky.social, @hasagerlinea.bsky.social and I study exactly this in the context of Denmark's so-called Ghetto List. Using an RD design, we find that the Ghetto label triggered a cultural backlash

ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin@rfberlin.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! @mettefoged.bsky.social, Teresa Freitas-Monteiro & @hasagerlinea.bsky.social study how harsh political labeling (Denmark’s “ghetto list”) affects cultural identity and triggers backlash responses. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

As I am now handling papers at AEJ:Policy again, I want to encourage authors of papers that identify partial equilibrium effects to consider (in a rigorous manner) how they relate to policy effects or general equilibrium effects.

Important non-curricular insights about thriving in academia from stellar @econsandy.bsky.social

Sandy Black@econsandy.bsky.social · 2y ago

I was incredibly honored to be awarded the CSWEP Carolyn Shaw Bell Award. When I accepted the award, I talked about the importance of mentoring. The lessons I pass on are kind of obvious. But they are important, so I am going to share them yet again. (A🧵)

With @jeromevalette.bsky.social & Simone Bertoli, we are thrilled to announce the Call for Papers for the 3rd edition of the Junior Workshop on the Economics of Migration on 23-24 June 2025 @CERDI, Clermont-Ferrand, France. Submit until 23 February 2025 on economig2025.sciencesconf.org

Fascinating… the story of the rise of Taliban?

Tim Krieger@timkriegerfr.bsky.social · 2y ago

Forthcoming in EJ: ‘Paying Them to Hate US: The Effect of U.S. Military Aid on Anti-American Terrorism, 1968–2018’ by Eugen Dimant, Tim Krieger, Daniel Meierrieks doi.org/10.1093/ej/u... @timkriegerfr.bsky.social #EconBsky @uni-freiburg.de

"Simply put, when immigrants come to a place looking for jobs, they also demand goods and services—thus creating jobs for native-born workers… The question has always been which effect is bigger." @jerusalem.bsky.social and Rogé Karma brilliantly review research including mine in this podcast—>

The Immigration-Wage Myth

Does the American worker have good reason to fear immigration?

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📢 Call for papers 📢 2nd workshop in Labour economics at Nottingham GEP June 17-18, 2025 Keynotes: Josh Angrist and Alexandra Roulet Small workshop, great opportunity for feedback! Submit by March 1st👇 More info & submission: t.ly/e4dtL #EconSky #EconConf

Next step, we really want to understand better why employment of newly arrived refugees is historical high? And will it last? Labor demand is part of it and maybe we are getting some policies right too

Jacob Nielsen Arendt@jacobarendt.bsky.social · 2y ago

The employment Level for newly arrived refugees breaks all records in Denmark - and at similar Level as for Ukranians. New brief analysis (in Danish): rockwoolfonden.dk/udgivelser/s...

The world now has one more excellent PhD in economics of migration. Congrats @katiagallegost.bsky.social

Katia Gallegos Torres@katiagallegost.bsky.social · 2y ago

I successfully defended my PhD 🥳🥂. I couldn't have asked for a better supervisor @andreassteinmayr.net. You are the best :). Extremely thankful to Jan Stuhler for all the feedback and for hosting at UC3M! Big thanks to @mettefoged.bsky.social who was my 2nd reviewer and Markus Walzl (cmte. memb.).

Reskilling moves injured workers from disability benefits to full-time employment. Reskilling subsidies pay for themselves four times over, and current rates of reskilling are substantially below the social optimum. Paper now conditionally accepted at AER 🎉 drive.google.com/file/d/1NnI9...

Pretty thrilled about how many great researchers who are going to visit @rockwoolfonden.bsky.social next year! Join us for seminars if in Copenhagen, doors are open! Kudos to @mikkelmertz.bsky.social for organizing #econsky

JMP from @annahasselqvist.bsky.social analyzing an interesting interaction between education policy and traditional gender norms

Anna Hasselqvist@annahasselqvist.bsky.social · 2y ago

#econsky #econjmp #econ #jmp I am on the #econjobmarket this year! My JMP focuses specifically on second-generation migrant girls. How does education policy impact them as they grow up in a highly egalitarian society, yet within families that have migrated from more gender-traditional origins? 🧵👇

Hi #EconSky CPH crowd! I created a google calendar with econ talks in the Copenhagen area: hhsievertsen.github.io/econ_talks_i... 😃 @miriamwuest.bsky.social @birthelarsen.bsky.social @mikkelmertz.bsky.social @gandil.bsky.social @mettefoged.bsky.social

We are excited to present the Global Migration Information Hub at @rfberlin.bsky.social! The #GMIH provides insights into European migration trends, compiles essential data, and synthesizes research for key migration questions. Explore more at: www.rfberlin.com/global-migra...

🚨 Call for Papers —Conference on the economics of migration in Latin America, Mar. 14–15 in Washington —Featuring top researchers @sandrarozo.bsky.social @dmckenzie.bsky.social @claireadida.bsky.social et al., run by HUMANS network of LACEA —With a keynote by me —Submissions due 🔜 December 15

Incredibly bad news for Economics in Germany. It was such a coup to attract a young superstar (from MIT!) to run one of our leading research institutes. I can’t believe we are losing him and all the potential he brought to IZA.

Join us. This place if full of positive energy and excellent researchers with real impact

Rasmus Landersø@rlandersoe.bsky.social · 3y ago

Only a few days left: we’re hiring a researcher doing applied work relating to labor, education, family, PF, health, crime,… rockwoolfonden.dk/stillingsops...

Submit your paper by October 30. I look forward to contributing to this

Ben Elsner@benelsner.bsky.social · 3y ago

#Econsky Research in Labor Economics will have a special issue on Migration, Human Capital and the Labor Market, with keynote papers from Giovanni Peri & Mette Foged, Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Barry Chiswick, Madeline Zavodny & Pia Orrenius. Submit by October 30 here: legacy.iza.org/rle_applicat...

#EconSky Hi old friends! For new friends - a small introduction to my work in the past years with brilliant coauthors: 1) Adults with access to more language training earn more and work in more complex jobs. See details here doi.org/10.1162/rest...