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The EAYE Annual Meeting welcomes submissions of full papers or extended abstracts (4-8K characters) in all fields of economics
👉 18–20 May '26, University of the Basque Country
⏲️ Submission deadline extended to 28 December 2025!
🔎 @fbcaires.bsky.social @eui-eco.bsky.social reveals how raising the minimum wage leads to wider salary increases, its link to the organisation of firms, and its consequences for salary inequalities.
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🚨 Call for Papers!
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The award was the cherry on top of a great event - outstanding papers, helpful feedback, inspiring keynotes, and an incredible group of young economists who were not only curious and sharp, but also really fun to hang out with.
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I study two minimum wage hikes in Portugal: 2014 and 2016.
Exploiting the quasi-experimental nature of the policy and leveraging rich administrative linked employer-employee data, I confirm the main predictions of the model.
Read the working paper📜: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Theoretically, I introduce a minimum wage into a stylized model of compensation policies rooted in the personnel economics literature, and derive predictions to guide the empirical analysis.
And empirically? 👇
In the paper, I show that firms’ internal organization and associated compensation policies shape how minimum wage policies propagate along the wage distribution.
How? 👇
Honoured that my paper "Internal Organization of Firms and Minimum Wage Spillovers" received the Best Paper Award at the latest @eayeconomists.bsky.social Annual Meeting!
Appreciation photo with EUI friends at King’s College – an amazing venue for a great conference.
The paper in a nutshell 👇
Watch out for this brilliant new generation of economists pursuing their PhDs at the EUI! Happy to see co-authors, colleagues, and former students. Thanks @marlenethomass.bsky.social for organizing it.
🚨 Updated WP
Ever wondered how financial aid - grants vs. loans - impacts students' college major choices? In a revised version of our paper, @adridefax.bsky.social and I provide answers using rich administrative data from Chile (link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....).
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