Interior view of a modern building with individuals working. A large poster displays information about a published paper titled "Voice at Work" by Simon Jäger, featured in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.

@simonjaeger.bsky.social‬'s new paper in AEA estimates the effects of worker voice on productivity, job quality, and separations. A Finnish reform granting workers representation increased labor productivity and reduced involuntary separations.

Read more: bit.ly/4fmycBe

What Does Consulting Do? 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...

NBER WP: www.nber.org/papers/w34072

Ungated copy here: jaeger.scholar.princeton.edu/sites/g/file...

@princetonecon.bsky.social

What does consulting do? Lots of strongly held views, very limited data to answer the question.

In new ‪‪NBER paper, Gert Bijnens, @schoefer.bsky.social and I shed light on this question using the first economy-wide data on consulting relationships (based on VAT-based B2B data).

More info👇

Wow, super interesting!

"What Does Consulting Do?" by Gert Bijnens, Simon Jäger, and Benjamin Schoefer.

"...we find positive effects on labor productivity of 3.6% over five years, driven by modest employment reductions alongside stable or growing revenue."

www.nber.org/papers/w34072

Professor Simon Jäger, Ph.D. - IAB - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung

Excited to join @iabnews.bsky.social as a Research Fellow!
IAB is 🇩🇪's leading labor market research institution and a pioneer in making research data accessible. Their work has transformed our understanding of labor markets. Looking forward to contributing to their mission! iab.de/en/fellows/p...

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The paper is available here: pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...
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Very excited that our paper (joint with Jarkko Harju and ‪@schoefer.bsky.social‬) on "Voice at Work" is published in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. We study what happened when workers in Finnish firms got a right to worker voice on the corporate board. 👇

Simon Jäger, économiste : « Il faut se débarrasser de l’idée romantique de l’ouvrier de l’industrie qui serait l’avenir du pays » Le spécialiste germano-américain de l’économie du travail estime que les syndicats, les seules institutions puissantes où les cols bleus sont représentés aujourd’hui, peuvent jouer un rôle important d...

Interview in @lemonde.fr about the structural shifts challenging the 🇩🇪 model of industrial relations. If you’re interested, please check the link below.

Thanks to @cecileboutelet.bsky.social for the conversation! Follow her for a new perspective on the 🇩🇪 economy.

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Im @zdfde.bsky.social wird heute die Kurzarbeit in Deutschland thematisiert. Im Gespräch mit Valerie Haller habe ich Einschätzungen zur Kurzarbeit im aktuellen Arbeitsmarkt- und Wirtschaftsumfeld diskutiert. Heute Abend im heute journal und hier in Zusammenfassung.

www.zdf.de/nachrichten/...

Thanks for the kind words, Jacob!

Stunning piece of work!

Paper available here: economics.mit.edu/sites/defaul...

NBER WP here: www.nber.org/papers/w33267

Comments welcome!

Most importantly: phenomenal work by @alexanderbusch.bsky.social on the chapter! 🙏 Alex is a Ph.D. student at MIT Sloan and MIT IWER and has several very cool + independent projects on unions, collective bargaining, strikes, and much more! Follow him for insights on these topics!

We then conduct a harmonized study of collective bargaining coverage, premia, compression, and selection into collective bargaining coverage, drawing on data from the US, Canada and the European Structure of Earnings Survey.

We then take an even deeper dive and describe varieties of industrial relations systems around the world. 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇸🇪🇳🇴🇫🇮🇩🇰🇫🇷🇮🇹🇵🇹🇦🇷🇧🇷🇨🇳🇮🇳🇿🇦

We take a deep dive into the many ways in which different industrial relations systems shape collective bargaining (opening clauses, extensions, wage cushions and much more).

We start with the observation that collective bargaining coverage is *substantially* higher than union membership in many countries (very different from the US). And that across countries, collective bargaining is associated with less wage inequality.

How do unions and collective bargaining work around the world? And how do they affect the wage structure?

A new paper with Suresh Naidu and Benjamin Schoefer
@schoefer.bsky.social out NBER WP today and prepared for the Handbook of Labor Economics.

Thread below. 👇

Collective Bargaining, Unions, and the Wage Structure: An International Perspective 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...

Fascinating new paper by @simonjaeger.bsky.social, Suresh Naidu, and @schoefer.bsky.social!
www.nber.org/papers/w33267

Collective Bargaining, Unions, and the Wage Structure: An International Perspective 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...

Don't miss this enormous overview of collective bargaining literature and institutions + a model of how unions shape wages applied to 26 countries! My final pre-doc RA'ed project is finally out - including a little preview of something that I've been working on :)

www.nber.org/papers/w3326...

New paper
w/ @simonjaeger.bsky.social & Suresh Naidu

An attempt at an account of how unions/collective bargaining work and shape wages, across various international settings.

In prep for Handbook of Labor => please email us any feedback!
www.nber.org/papers/w33267
eml.berkeley.edu/~schoefer/sc...

Our paper (w/ Jarkko Harju and @schoefer.bsky.social ) on what happened when Finland introduced a right to worker representation on corporate boards, now in @aeajournals.bsky.social: Applied. 👇

Wir haben geredet:
@christian-bayer.bsky.social @holgi.bsky.social und ich bei
Wrint über Kurzarbeit (featuring @simonjaeger.bsky.social und
@mokuhn.bsky.social ) Krypto und Wahlprogramme (und das US Gesundheitssystem). Viel Spaß beim Zuhören!

wrint.de/2024/12/21/k...

Voice at Work (Forthcoming Article) - We estimate the effects of worker voice on productivity, job quality, and separations. We study the 1991 introduction of a right to worker representation on boards or advisory ...

Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Voice at Work" by Jarkko Harju, Simon Jäger, and Benjamin Schoefer. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Unser Paper zu "Short-Time Work Extensions" ist hier als Working Paper verfügbar. economics.mit.edu/sites/defaul...

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