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Despite the turbulences, I absolutely loved my time at IZA 💙 And just when visiting my (former) colleagues and friends at the institute I realised again that it really was a special place. The (labour) economics research community is losing a great player

Jonas Jessen@jonasjessen.bsky.social · 2y ago

Devastating news that @iza.org is effectively closing down 😔 It was (or at the moment, is) a wonderful institute and the network was tremendously helpful in dissaminating work in labour economics. IZA will sorely be missed 😢 So sorry for all IZA employees!

So glad to be in Wien! My favorite conference that I don’t organize: the annual meeting of the Ausschuss für Bevolkerungsökomik of the @vfsecon.bsky.social, this year at the @ihs.ac.at. @simontrenkle.bsky.social presenting here.

JMP alert 🎉 What drives maternal labor supply - a key factor for labor market inequalities? Gender role attitudes! We use reduced form and structural methods to show that they are of first-order importance, both directly and through the mediation of policies (w/ Tim Mensinger) 🧵👇

Excited to share my new WP (which also happens to be my job market paper!) How does online recruitment impact the geography of the labour market? Full paper here sites.google.com/view/mariaba... and a thread below:

Grateful for the last years at IZA and the new spirit to labor economics and the policy discourse Simon Jäger brought with him. The inclusive and cooperative leadership approach has been contagious and maybe this year’s summer events gave a glimpse of what path IZA was on to. What could have been…

I have a new working paper out with Pablo Guzman, Johannes Schmieder, Simon Trenkle, and Han Ye: "When Institutions Interact: How The Effects of Unemployment Insurance are Shaped by Retirement Policy. www.nber.org/papers/w31807 See replies for a short thread.