Great article by @jburnmurdoch.ft.com on why higher pay hasn’t made young adults feel richer #inequalities www.ft.com/content/b61f...
Sebastian Königs
@sebkoenigs.bsky.social
Senior Economist at #OECD working on #inequality, #socialmobility, #labourmarkets, #socialprotection | Research Fellow @IZA.org | Econ DPhil from @ox.ac.uk | all views my own sites.google.com/view/sebastiankoenigs 📍Paris 18
How far can you get in 60 minutes? European cities offer vastly larger areas reachable by public transit than US cities of comparable population size. Source: lconwell.github.io/lucasconwell...
„[T]here is no powerful reason to fear declining populations. The sort of collapse heralded by fertility rates below one would indeed be problematic. But a fertility rate of 1.5 or above should be perfectly workable, with a little sensible forethought.“ www.ft.com/content/0ae2...
The truth about population decline
Arguments about the dangers of falling fertility deserve much closer scrutiny
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Erik Brynjolffson: „My own updated analysis suggests a US productivity increase of roughly 2.7 per cent for 2025. This is a near doubling from the sluggish 1.4 per cent annual average that characterised the past decade.“ #AI www.ft.com/content/4b51...
The AI productivity take-off is finally visible
New economic data suggests the US is transitioning to a phase of measurable gains from the technology
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In addition to official policies that are in place, I've started including this 'personal AI policy' in communications with students I supervise.
TIL that two months into #WWI, the @financialtimes.com organised a competition challenging readers to predict Europe‘s post-war borders www.ft.com/content/79a4...
The FT contest that challenged readers to redraw Europe’s borders
The extraordinary story of when, two months into the bloody Great War, the newspaper launched an unusual competition
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Also, the German car industry’s woes have sucked up most of the attention. But another storm is brewing in machinery - the other core engine of Germany’s growth model.
Nils Redeker@nilsredeker.bsky.social · 6mo agoBrutal chart from @noahbarkin.bsky.social and Gregor Williams. German exports to China grew for nearly two decades - and are now in free fall.
German (nominal) wage growth. ...without qualification: +4.8% ...with apprenticeship-level qualification: +4% ...with a degree: 2.8% Part of a longer-running trend of wage compression. (in German).
„We then tested whether increases in hip-hop penetration were linked to changes in crime—and whether people exposed to more hip hop in their formative years experienced worse outcomes in education, employment, earnings, teen births and single parenthood.“ 📻 marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...
The economics of hip hop - Marginal REVOLUTION
In a TED Talk released on Monday, I describe a decadelong effort to measure hip hop’s impact. My research team and I assembled a data set tracking the genre’s diffusion from the late 1980s onward. We ...
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🚨 Postdoctoral Position at the University of Konstanz 🚨 We’re hiring a post-doc for our @excinequality.bsky.social project on political elites and decision-making. 4-year position | Deadline: Feb. 20 | Start: Sept 2026 Please share widely 🙏 The ad is here stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/f...
Postdoctoral Position at the Cluster of Excellence “The Politics of Inequality”
Deadline: 20 February 2026, 12:00 pm CET
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🔔 Very happy that our OECD Review of Labour Market and Social Policies in Croatia is out! 🇭🇷 The report was prepared in the framework of Croatia’s accession process to the OECD. Key challenges + recent policy initiatives. 🧵 🔗 doi.org/10.1787/90b7... #LabourMarket #SocialPolicy #CroatiaOECD
OECD Reviews of Labour Market and Social Policies: Croatia 2025
Croatia's economy and society have been marked by two major trends over the last decade: an impressive labour market recovery, and a mounting demographic challenge. After a long recession following th...
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OECD Social@oecdsocial.bsky.social · 8mo ago📣 Just released: The @OECD’s Review of Labour Market and Social Policies in #Croatia, prepared in the context of Croatia’s accession process. Find out how #Croatia compares to OECD countries in the areas of employment, social and migration policy: oe.cd/6iv @sebkoenigs.bsky.social
Slightly embarrassed to admit that I do love my occasional Lapsang Souchong. #tea
The Economist@economist.com · 8mo agoLapsang souchong, as it is known in the West, does not exist in China. Even the words may be a Western concoction. So how did this particular tea, of all teas, become a sensation abroad?
European countries have been increasing their Defence budgets significantly. The Germans more than anyone else. That said, some of the German Defence Euros will flow into infrastructure that is deemed to be crucial in case of an active war.
Attention is on NEETs today, but the problem is much worse. NEETs include stay-at-home parents & jobseekers. Strip those out to focus on people not working, not seeking work, not in education & not parenting: this group of economically & socially dislocated young adults has *doubled* in a decade.
‘Denim’ gets its name from the French words ‘de Nĭmes’ meaning "of Nĭmes," because it was manufactured in the city of Nĭmes. ‘Jeans’ comes from the city of Genoa (earlier known as Genes) because the pants were worn by the Genoese navy. 'JNCO' means “Judge None Choose One."
„Employers, having lost a way of telling strong from weak candidates, have cut all new hires’ pay, and more often end up recruiting worse candidates. For bosses, the fall in quality is more than compensated for by the fall in candidate wages.“ economist.com/finance-and-...
How AI is breaking cover letters
And leading to lower pay
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„These estimates suggest that by 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8% […]. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%.“ www.nber.org/papers/w34459
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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“[W]e found that women are represented as younger than men across occupations and social roles in nearly 1.4 million images and videos from Google, Wikipedia, IMDb, Flickr and YouTube, as well as in nine language models […]“ via @marginalrev.blogsky.venki.dev www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Age and gender distortion in online media and large language models - Nature
Stereotypes of age-related gender bias are socially distorted, as evidenced by the age gap in the representations of women and men across various media and algorithms, despite no systematic age differences in the workforce.
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🪜 Very happy to see @jterrerodavila.bsky.social‘s and my work on income mobility using tax record data from 🇦🇹, 🇧🇪, 🇨🇦, and 🇪🇪covered in the LSE #Inequalities blog @oecdsocial.bsky.social
LSE Inequalities@lseinequalities.bsky.social · 10mo agoIn our latest blog, Javier Terrero Dávila (@oecdsocial.bsky.social) asks how much income mobility do different countries exhibit? And how does it vary across different groups relating to age, gender, education and where people live? #LSEInequalitiesBlog buff.ly/6Jo3KX7
„Paris is particularly ill-adapted to heat waves. A 2023 study published in the London-based medical journal The Lancet deemed it the European capital whose residents were most exposed to heat-related deaths.“ #Paris #climatechange www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/w...
Paris Braces for a Future of Possibly Paralyzing Heat
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We're hiring a postdoc in labor economics at IAB Nuremberg! Join @ineshelmecon.bsky.social, @jnimczik.bsky.social & me on a project about gig work. 🗓️ Start: 1 Oct 25 💶 Salary ≥ €5200/month 🌱 Possibility to apply for tenure track program Apply here until 17 June: econjobmarket.org/positions/11...
PhD students studying #inequality! Check out this online PhD Workshop, scheduled for July 2, 2025. Application deadline is June 8. Call-for-papers link below. Hosted by #ECINEQ. Direct questions to ecineqphd@gmail.com. @stone-lis.bsky.social @lisdata.bsky.social sites.google.com/view/phdwork...
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This workshop is designed to bring together PhD candidates from diverse fields to explore and discuss their latest research on economic inequality. The workshop provides a platform to share research i...
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Just learned something new. You can buy spurious citations that will show up on Google Scholar -- and people do.
John Holbein@johnholbein1.bsky.social · last yr.Nice. arxiv.org/abs/2402.04607
As children’s digital lives evolve, so must our approach to their #WellBeing. Discover the new OECD report that dives into how to empower kids to take advantage of new opportunities online, while protecting them from potential risks. 🔗 oe.cd/622
