Why Women Won by Claudia Goldin Following the success of our first public lecture, we are pleased to announce the next RFBerlin Annual Public Lecture, organized in collaboration with the Humboldt University of Berlin! This year, RFB...

Join us on 4 November for the RFBerlin Annual Public Lecture: “Why Women Won” by Nobel Laureate Claudia Goldin.
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Discover how women’s roles in work and society have evolved and what challenges remain
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Don’t forget to submit your papers to the RFBerlin Migration Forum 📝
📅 Submission deadline: 2 Nov 2025
📍 Berlin | 26-27 Mar 2026
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"Forced Migration and Human Capital: Insights from Economic History" by Sascha O. Becker This masterclass, led by Sascha O. Becker (University of Warwick, Monash University, and RFBerlin), explores the economic consequences of forced migration through a historical lens. Building on influe...

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Join @essobecker.bsky.social for two days of in-depth teaching on the economic consequences of forced migration through a historical lens.
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Research Assistant We at RFBerlin are seeking a highly skilled and motivated research assistant to provide support for a project on the labor market effects of collective bargaining, led by Christian Dustmann and Jan Kn...

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Migration: Der Wirtschaft fehlen die Flüchtlinge In Deutschland fehlen immer mehr Arbeitskräfte für einfache Jobs. Bisher erledigten das oft Asylbewerber. Einen Plan für die Zukunft gibt es nicht. Unternehmen und Verbände schlagen Alarm.

Hier ein 🎁 Link zu diesem wirklich lesenswerten Artikel, der so ziemlich alles in Frage stellt, was derzeit in der Migrationsfrage als gegeben hingestellt wird.
Selbst die rechte Meloni-Regierung hat den hohen Bedarf an Niedrigqualifizierten erkannt. Deutschland irrlichtet dem Abschwung entgegen.

There must be technical solutions to this that disguise you as a low willingness-to-pay customer? E.g. using a VPN from a LIC

That’s true for both Ukraine and Europe: there aren’t enough interceptors to sustain a missile defense-centric strategy.

Instead, they must shift to a deterrence posture in the missile domain that relies on the threat of imposing unacceptable costs rather than denial.

7/7

To understand America today, study the zero-sum mindset, writes Stefanie Stantcheva Young people and city-dwellers are among those most likely to see one group’s gain as another’s loss

Young people and city-dwellers are among those most likely to see one group’s gain as another’s loss

Today's cool young researcher #econtwitter #econsky is @CriClerici
@poverty_action who works on topics related to gender + health

💥Research Assistant Positions💥

1. Ingvild Almås, Timo Boppart, Thor Berger, Hannes Malmberg, and I are looking for a research assistant to work on a project which investigates Sweden's spectacular economic growth during the late 19th century using establishment-level data.

There's a lotta concern about the short run (ie recession or not) implications of Trump's agenda. Dani is right to point to the long run as far far more consequential.

The myth of the single market Why Europe’s internal barriers are higher than Trump's tariffs

„The IMF puts the hidden cost of trading goods inside the EU at the equivalent of a 45% tariff. For services the figure climbs to 110%“

www.siliconcontinent.com/p/the-myth-o...

US policy uncertainty right now is off the charts -- worse than during covid, 2008 financial crisis, debt limit showdowns, after 9/11, you name it.
www.policyuncertainty.com

a graph of G7 GDP growth, as described in the tweet

US & EU GDP data are now in, which means another update to my G7 GDP chart

Here's each country's cumulative increase in real GDP, since just before the pandemic:

🇺🇸 +12.9%
🇨🇦 +8.7% (thru Q4)
🇮🇹 +5.9%
🇫🇷 +3.7%
🇬🇧 +3.4% (thru Q4)
🇯🇵 +0.9% (thru Q4)
🇩🇪 +0.0%

This seems like an issue. By @economist.com

Überfälliges Statement hochrangiger deutscher Diplomaten zum Krieg im Nahen Osten (FAZ, 17.4.25)

Professor in Economics Department of Economics For more information about us, please visit: Department of Economics Subject/subject description Economics, with no restrictions on field of research. Main responsibilities Res

Dear academic economists! Two weeks left to apply to a position as full professor at the Econ Dept @stockholm-uni.bsky.social. in Sweden, academic - and personal - freedoms are deeply respected. And the microdata is awesome! Deadline March 31! #econsky su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

📢 Join our labor team!
I am looking for two #predocs to work with me and my coauthors on applied labor economics projects in Switzerland!

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FREIBURG taz | Die Stilllegung von deutschen Kohlekraftwerken im Jahr 2021 war für den internationalen Klimaschutz offenbar wirkungslos: Die Europäische Kommission hat es abgelehnt, die betreffenden Emissionszertifikate zu löschen, weil das formale Vorgehen der Bundesregierung nicht der Rechtsauffassung der EU entspricht.

Das ist wirklich ziemlich grotesk. Es geht hier um ≈ 5 Millionen Tonnen CO2, die jetzt aufgrund bürokratischer Probleme offenbar nicht eingespart werden. Zumal die Betreiber zudem noch 650 Millionen € Stilllegungsentschädigung bekamen.

taz.de/Emissionszer...

Remarkable: Merz wants to discuss reforming debt brake in the *outgoing* Bundestag, where CDU/CSU+SPD+Greens still have over 2/3 of seats, before new Bundestag is constituted by 25 March. Greens already signalled willingness this morning.

🇩🇰 Denmark today increases the defence budget with 50bn DKK (6.7bn EUR) plus 10bn DKK (1.3bn EUR) extra per year until 2033 going 2.4% of GDP in 2024 to 3.2% in 2025. As discussed probably 50bn more is needed for acquisition.

What Europe should do RIGHT NOW: Make it extremely easy for US scientists to get long-term visa, create as many additional research jobs in key areas as possible, create new, generous science and research funds. People are losing their jobs over there NOW. Let‘s welcome them.

What Europe should do RIGHT NOW: Make it extremely easy for US scientists to get long-term visa, create as many additional research jobs in key areas as possible, create new, generous science and research funds. People are losing their jobs over there NOW. Let‘s welcome them.

Weil gerade die Linke so gehyped wird: Lest bitte einmal das Wahlprogramm hinsichtlich der Verteidigung.

Angesichts dessen, dass kürzlich die transatlantische Allianz & gemeinsamen Demokratie-Werte beerdigt wurden, stehen wir komplett wehrlos gegenüber Russland, China & Co da.

Hier das Programm:

Among other things, the 🇩🇪 debt brake is bad for national security:

Got them from Munich - East ;)

I got them sent to Stockholm on Friday

Where does the German obsession with putting „punishment“ in front of economic instrument come from? Strafzölle, Strafzinsen …

Video: Opinion | How Tyranny Begins Tyranny doesn’t happen overnight. Take it from the people who missed the first signs.

I did a NYT video interview—along with voices from Hungary, Nicaragua, and Russia— about how repression works in authoritarian states.

www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...

Professor i nationalekonomi Nationalekonomiska institutionen Mer information om oss finns på: Nationalekonomiska institutionen Ämne/ämnesbeskrivning Nationalekonomi utan begränsningar inom ämnet. Arbetsuppgifter Forskning,

Position as professor in economics (any field) at Stockholm University, Department of Economics. Apply by March 31.
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