Excited to share new work with Yaming Cao @zew.de and @kayaez.bsky.social @cu-cardiffbusiness.bsky.social published in Labour Economics! Students with gritty peers in high school are more likely to succeed in the labor market. Gritty peers are pivotal for #FirstGen students. doi.org/10.1016/j.la...
New Working Paper! 📢
Read it here: cemfi.es/ftp/wp/2525....
@kayaez.bsky.social has been nominated for the People’s Choice Award at the ONS Research Excellence Awards 2025!
Exploring the Nexus Between Immigration, Integration, and Labour Market Outcomes
The People’s Choice Award is voted for by the community, and open until midnight on October 31!
@kayaez.bsky.social's “Exploring the Nexus Between Immigration, Integration & Labour Market Outcomes” which uses the ASHE-Census 2011 dataset has been nominated for the ONS People’s Choice Award 2025!
You can support Ezgi's work by voting here by October 31st!: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
Very proud to have led this project and grateful to our advisory board members – including @migranthelp.bsky.social – for their valuable contributions. Rianna Romeo @adr-uk.bsky.social has written an excellent summary of some of the findings 👇
📢 Call for Papers - @theeconjournal.bsky.social invites submissions for its special issue: Labor Market Effects of Immigration with Micro Data.
🗓️ Deadline: 15 Oct 2025
📄 Submit here: bit.ly/458jedz
#Economics #Immigration #LabourMarket #EconJournal #EconSky
Great to see this in print! Grateful to @adruk.bsky.social for supporting this work.
@cu-cardiffbusiness.bsky.social
Chart showing Proportion of employees on different forms of flexible contract, by migration status: UK, 2022-2023
One-in-six foreign-born workers who have moved to the UK in the last five years are in some form of precarious work.
The likelihood of precarious work drops for foreign-born workers the longer they stay in the UK, but never fully converges with that of UK-born workers.
Adamopoulou, Effrosyni, Yaming Cao und Ezgi Kaya (2025), Gritty Peers, ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 25-002, Mannheim.
Wie beeinflusst Peer Grit langfristigen Erfolg? #ZEW DP 25-002 @efiadamopoulou.bsky.social, Yaming Cao &
@kayaez.bsky.social zeigt, dass es zu höherem Verdienst, größerer Widerstandsfähigkeit & Arbeitszufriedenheit führt, insbes. bei benachteiligten Schülern. #Bildung
www.zew.de/PU86613/?twt=1
Das #Gehalt steigt, wenn die eigene #Peergroup in der #Schule ausdauernd und hartnäckig war, zeigt eine Studie von @efiadamopoulou.bsky.social, Yaming Cao und @kayaez.bsky.social. Dieser Peereffekt kann sogar Unterschiede der sozialen Herkunft ausgleichen.
Mehr Infos 👉 www.zew.de/PM9355/?twt=1
Barcelona Labor Summer School 2025!
Apply here: ow.ly/m0AH50Qz4Yc
Economics of Migration
Wage Determination
Gender Economics
Amazing teachers:
@libertadgonzalez.bsky.social joanllull derekneal
Do not miss the Early bird discount (deadline April 15)!
Also, we at St Andrews are looking for a Senior Lecturer/Reader in applied economics. Happy to chat about this one, too!
#EconSky
www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...
Looking forward to speaking at the 2025 #ONSResearchExcellence series!
Join me, @xiaoweixu.bsky.social and
@francescafolia1.bsky.social as we discuss immigration, geographic, and social mobility research.
🗓️ Thurs 30 Jan | ⏰ 10:30–11:30
Details below ⬇️
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ons-resear...
Looking forward to the insightful discussion with
@heather-rolfe.bsky.social on immigration and sharing my project findings 📊, part of a research fellowship funded by
ADR UK! Join us online on 16 January! 📅Details below👇
@cu-cardiffbusiness.bsky.social
www.adruk.org/news-publica...
Doing a PhD in economics on migration? Last day to submit your work to our workshop! 👇
#EconConf #Econsky
🚨 Exciting news! The 3rd #Diversity & #HumanCapital Workshop @uofebusiness.bsky.social returns June 16–17, 2025 🎉 Keynote speakers: Josh Angrist, Patricia Cortes & Imran Rasul. Call for Papers will be out soon. Stay tuned! tinyurl.com/yc8h2nkr
#econsky #economics @uniofexeternews.bsky.social
News - COPE 2025, NTNU, Trondheim, May 8-9th
Delighted to announce 2 keynotes for the conference:
Astrid Kunze (NHH)
Christopher Stanton (Harvard Business School)
personneleconomics.eu/cope2025/
#EconSky
🗣️ Call for papers: 6th Workshop on the Economics and Politics of Migration, May 22–23 in Madrid
Keynotes by the brilliant Leah Boustan & @deanyang.bsky.social
Submissions due January 26th —> docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#econconf #econsky
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Hi #EconSky,
Not sure if the Starter Pack party's over, but I've made an Econ Starter Pack of Starter Packs! 😄
It's a work in progress, so I may have missed some. Let me know if there's anything to add—DMs are open!
Thanks for support @economista.bsky.social!
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
🗣️Are you a #WomeninEcon in early career academic?
TWO DAYS LEFT TO APPLY - RES Women’s Committee is seeking mentees for their #mentoringprogramme for #earlycareer women working/studying in #academia.
⏰Deadline is 22 November 2024
👉https://bit.ly/3YrieiB
#EconSky #EduSky
Thank you for putting this list together - I'd like to be added please.
Just how wrong might the Labour Force Survey have been about employment, unemployment and inactivity rates? My new paper estimates these rates independently of the LFS and gives quite different results... www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications... 🧵
📣 #RES2025 Annual Conference Call for Submissions is now open – those wishing to present at #conference can submit a paper or a poster for review.
⏰Deadline 13 January 2025
👉https://bit.ly/4hku5q7
#EconSky #EconEvents #RESEvents #RESConference @cgriffa.bsky.social
BÆM is back! Come and join us in beautiful Bristol for the 2nd edition of the Bristol Applied Economics Meetings:
Development Economics: May 6-7
Gender, Diversity, and Human Capital: May 8-9
Submit your paper by Feb 28. Travel support is available. baem.info. 1/4
Quick econ tip: here's a list of over 100 economics conferences: docs.google.com/spreadsheets.... Curated by @anne-m-burton.bsky.social and @bartonwillage.com.
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I'd like to be added please.
Sorry for the mix-up, Heather! Thanks again – much appreciated!
Thank you, Heather – I’d like to be included as well.