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The IAB Special Lecture Series 2023 / 2024 / 2025

📢 1st IAB Special Lecture of 2025!

We’re thrilled to host David Autor at IAB as he presents: “Does automation replace experts or augment expertise? The answer is yes.”

🕑 January 15, 2025, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM CET

🔗 Register here for onsite or online participation: eveeno.com/iab-speciall...

The best science images of 2024 — Nature’s picks A breathtaking total eclipse, courageous penguins, volcanic smoke rings and more.

Annual reviews are sometimes really wordy - so here's something way better from @natureportfolio.bsky.social with really fascinating pictures!

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

I'm guessing that by 2040, when Trump is re-elected for the sixth time, enough people will have finally switched from X to other platforms ... will be all right soon! 🙈😢

Zusammen mit @jepatste.bsky.social , Markus Wolf und Joachim Wolff haben wir die Einstellungen zu Sanktionen im Grundsicherungsbezug untersucht, der Beitrag ist heute im IAB Forum erschienen 👇
www.iab-forum.de/eine-mehrhei...

Graduate Programme (GradAB) - IAB - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung GradAB is the joint doctoral programme in labour market research of the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) and the School of Business, Economics and Society of the University of Erlangen-Nuremb...

🚨SCHOLARSHIP 🚨
thinking about a phd in labour econ/sociology/methods? you want to work with the great IAB data? then apply for our doctoral programme. financial support of 1,600 €/month and 1,800 €/year for scientific conferences and further training

👉 www.iab.de/en/gradab
👉 deadline 15 March

Robot Adoption at German Plants Using a newly collected dataset at the plant level from 2014 to 2018, we provide the first microscopic portrait of robotization in Germany and study the correlates of robot adoption. Our descriptive a...

5 facts on robot use:

(1) robot use is relatively rare. (2) distribution of robots is highly skewed. (3) new adopters contribute substantially to recent robotization. (4) robot users are excep
tional. (5) Heterogeneity in robot types matters.

More 👇

The open letter from 400+ IZA fellows to the Deutsche Post Foundation in response to the new leadership announcement at IZA is online: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

peak capitalism 😉

Opposition wins Polish election, according to exit poll If vote counting confirms the result, it would mark a dramatic change of direction after a very hard-fought election campaign.

🚨 BREAKING: Poland’s opposition parties have won the general election, according to an exit poll released immediately after voting ended tonight.

Polish ruling party set to lose majority - exit poll Right-wing Law and Justice leads, the poll suggests, but may struggle to secure a third term.

Check this, not too bad imo www.bbc.com/news/world-e...

Hi everyone, I am a labor economist and will occasionally post about economics, labor markets, inequality, unions, and all things labor. Looking forward to many interactions!

Wir bei #BAMFforscht suchen mehrere wissenschaftl. Mitarb. projektbefristet auf 3J zu „Lebenssituation im Erstzufluchtsstaat und Deutschland“ Link: www.interamt.de/koop/app/ste... Frist 25.10.

BAMF is entering the game, please welcome @tinahinz.bsky.social

Wir suchen eine/n neue/n Kollegin oder Kollegen für den Campus in Schwerin (50%): www.hdba.de/hochschule/k...

True, but on the other hand the tech infrastructure can grow (refreshing my feed sometimes takes time) and a scarce good also creates interest...

ok, umleitung: ich habe auf X Bescheid gegeben, dass er sich an dich wenden soll - Danke dir

wie geht das hier?😅

verdammt, gibts hier DMs 🙈

Dear all, does anyone else here have an invitation for a good colleague who can say a lot to us on minimum wage research?

🎵 Research in the #Bluesky with 💎 (#openaccess).
📣 We’re seeking innovative manuscripts in family research, primarily from #sociology and #demography. We value creativity, contribution to knowledge, and state-of-the-art methodology. Join us in advancing the field of family science! #JFR #JFamRes

so far only a few colleagues from www.iab.de discovered here - please report to me if you spot any otherts 😉

#IAB

#Econsky Research in Labor Economics will have a special issue on Migration, Human Capital and the Labor Market, with keynote papers from Giovanni Peri & Mette Foged, Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Barry Chiswick, Madeline Zavodny & Pia Orrenius. Submit by October 30 here: legacy.iza.org/rle_applicat...

Hi, who is here from German #Econtwitter? Please answer and retweet!

Hi all 👋

🚨PhD Workshop🚨

are you doing your PhD in economics or sociology in the field of labor markets? Then you should submit to the 15th Ph.D. Workshop "Perspectives on (Un-)Employment" at www.iab.de/en.

Deadline for submission 27 Oct

More information here: iab.de/en/iab-veran...

Glad to have arrived over here! Who's around? #EconSky #AcademicSky

@sfjournal.bsky.social has also arrived. Hopefully more will soon follow 🙂

We’re here.