These Republican-leaning States Went Big on Minimum Wages. Here’s What Happened to their Restaurant and Retail Jobs.

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These Republican-leaving States Went Big on Minimum Wages.

Here's What Happened to their Restaurant and Retail Jobs.

» Call for Papers: Workshop in Labor Economics: WEI IV in Uppsala on 4 – 5.9.2026 <p>The fourth Workshop in Labor Economics: Wages, Employment and Inequality (WEI IV) will be organized in Uppsala, Sweden, on September 4 – 5, 2026. The workshop has secured an outstanding lineup of s...

📣Labour economists, ahoy!

Submit your research paper to WEI IV now - the DL is March 30!

The workshop has secured an outstanding lineup of speakers:
@simonjaeger.bsky.social
@lenahensvik.bsky.social
Anna Salomons
Alexander Willén

#wages
#employment
#inequality

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📢New WP: Minimum Wages and Workplace Injuries

Using California state and local minimum wage increases 2000-2019, we find minimum wage hikes increase workplace injury rates for low-wage workers. A plausible mechanism is work intensification

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w/ @rjisungpark.bsky.social & Michael Davies

Good article, but blurs the distinction between ESOPs & cooperatives: In both cases workers own their firm, but only cooperatives put workers in control (ESOPs often have voluntary voice mechanisms). ESOP ownership can also be highly dispersed betw. workers. Still, good to see this debate in EU!

GitHub - danielegirardi/lpdid: Implementing Local Projections Difference-in-Differences (LP-DiD) estimators Implementing Local Projections Difference-in-Differences (LP-DiD) estimators - danielegirardi/lpdid

📢 PSA for #EconSky & #RStats:

The GitHub repo for our Local Projections Difference-in-Differences (LP-DiD) paper now has example scripts for R!

If you're looking to implement LP-DiD in R, these are for you

Here: github.com/danielegirar...

#Econometrics #CausalInference

@arindube.bsky.social

🔥 Just accepted for publication at AEJ:Policy 🔥

"Employing the unemployed of Marienthal:
Evaluation of a guaranteed job program"

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Workers’ resolve drives increase in unionization in 2025 In 2025, 16.5 million workers in the United States were represented by a union—an increase of 463,000 from 2024 and the highest number of unionized workers in the U.S. in 16 years. These 16.5 million ...

Useful report from @epi.org on US unionization trends. Interesting to see that US union density actually rose in 2025. Just by 0.1 percentage points, but still, it’s the first time since 2020 that union density has gone up. And even more interesting, 1/
www.epi.org/publication/...

The exterior of the Upjohn Institute for Employment Research in Kalamazoo, Michigan. It is a brown building with a white entryway. A tree is in the foreground. A lovely blue sky completes the scene.

Writing a dissertation? Looking for funding? We have news for you! The Upjohn Institute and the Russell Sage Foundation (@russellsagefdn.bsky.social) are taking applications for grants.

To learn more head to RSF’s website: www.russellsage.org/apply/grants...

#Econsky #Fundsocsci

Had an amazing time, highly recommend!

University of Nottingham Campus

Call for papers, available at this link: https://tinyurl.com/3kdpb64a

Participants to the 2nd edition of the Nottingham GEP Labour Workshop, June 2025

Good news against January blues: 🏹 the Nottingham GEP Labour Workshop is back! 🏹

Small in-person workshop; plenty of interactions. Submit your best labo(u)r paper!

🗣️ Gordon Dahl (UCSD) and Anna Stansbury (MIT)
📅 1-2 June 2026
🌍 University of Nottingham

Apply by March 1st! ➡️ tinyurl.com/3kdpb64a

Markets and Mobility: How Employers Structure Economic Opportunity

Intergenerational mobility, measuring the ability to achieve economic success regardless of family background, is a critical reflection of a society’s commitment to equality of opportunity. Rising income inequality has raised concerns about the potential erosion of upward mobility. While education has traditionally been viewed as the path to mobility, its transformative power is facing challenges in a rapidly evolving job market. This project reorients the focus of intergenerational mobility research by highlighting the labor market as an arena for the reproduction of advantage. It employs a comparative approach, using administrative data from four countries: Sweden, Austria, England, and the United States. It also incorporates evidence from a broader set of nations through cross-national surveys, longitudinal household surveys, labor force surveys, secondary data, and digital trace data. The project employs cutting-edge empirical methods, including quasi- experimental designs, event studies, within-family comparisons, decomposition analyses, counterfactual simulations, and diagnostic checks to rigorously assess the extent of inequalities in the labor market. The research investigates how family background influences the sorting of individuals to employers and workplaces, accounting for education and occupation, and explores variations in career progression within and between employers. It comprehensively catalogues and assesses mechanisms shaping workplace inequality, contributing to the development of social closure theory. Additionally, the project evaluates intervention strategies, encompassing both employer practices and government actions, to promote fair opportunity in the labor market.

JOB! I'm hiring a postdoc for 2 years on my ERC MaMo project.

Looking for someone with strong quant methods, ongoing work close to the project's aims, and a desire to publish in sociology. Start flexible in the next 12 months.

Formal call out shortly, but contact me first.

I am very much looking forward to the Nottingham Labour Economics workshop this summer!

Submissions invited 👇

📢 Call for papers: 1st Annual CEP–IFS Labour Conference
London | 15–16 June 2026

We invite labour economics papers on wages & inequality, firm wage-setting, monopsony, unions, worker mobility & place-based policies.
Submit by 13 Feb 2026.
🔗 Details & submissions: https://ow.ly/yvGJ50XY3fK

Sectoral bargaining in Chile - not sure whether this bill will be passed & important to note that only some labor standards will be sectoral (not wages, afaik), but still an interesting development!

⏳ Deadline approaching!
Reminder to submit your paper to the 38th EALE Annual Conference, Barcelona (31 August - 2 September 2026).
📅 Deadline: 1 Feb 2026
🔗 ub.edu/eale2026/

This is interesting - does this relate to Sylvia Klosins' JMP on dynamic bias in panels?

Jobs jobs jobs #EconJobMarket

Meet Clara Schäper - a talented job market candidate at @diw.de and the @bsoeberlin.bsky.social. Clara is an applied microeconomist working on topics at the intersection of the economics of crime, labor, gender, and family economics.
@schaeper-clara.bsky.social #econjobmarket #EconJMP #DIWBerlin

I’m on the #EconJobMarket! I study labor, extreme weather adaptation, and inequality.

My JMP addresses an under-studied aspect of the labor market: schedule unpredictability among hourly workers in the service sector.

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Postdoctoral Fellow in Economics The ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin) invites applications for postdoctoral fellow positions in economics. The initial contract is for two years, with the possibility of renewal for up to six year...

Join RFBerlin as a Postdoctoral Fellow!
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🚨 #CallforPapers - We are hosting the RFBerlin - @cepr.org Annual Symposium in Labour Economics 2026.
📄 Submit your paper or express interest before January 31st, 2026: cepr.org/events/event...

Exogenous variation alert

The perfect choice, congratulations!

A Day with PhD student Alex Busch | MIT Sloan “As a student of both sociology and economics, MIT Sloan was the ideal place for me," says Alex Busch, a PhD student.

A day in my life as a PhD student, recorded by the Sloan marketing team - if you have been dying to know my class schedule, this is your chance!

mitsloan.mit.edu/programs/phd...

November 13th at 9:30 AM EST, discover admissions insights and the research opportunities in @mitsloan.bsky.social's PhD Program!

Register here: applymitsloan.mit.edu/register/Nov...

Something to keep in mind for the upcoming grad worker collective bargaining round at MIT. We should be optimizing over wages AND employment (incl incoming cohorts).

Assistant Professor (W1) in Labor Economics

Join us!

@iwh-halle.bsky.social and @uni-magdeburg.de are hiring an AP in Labor Economics!

Focus: Effects of AI and new technologies on workers & firms.

No German required.

Enjoy an outstanding research environment in Magdeburg & Halle – come see for yourself!

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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...

📢 We are hiring 📢

RFBerlin is looking for a #ResearchAssistant to support the project on the labor market effects of collective bargaining.

Apply now or share with your network: www.rfberlin.com/job/research...

Arbeitskämpfe: 2024 Rückgang gegenüber 2023, doch weiterhin relativ streikintensiv durch Nachwirkungen der Inflationswelle Arbeitskämpfe: 2024 Rückgang gegenüber 2023, doch weiterhin relativ streikintensiv durch Nachwirkungen der Inflationswelle

Gerade erschienen - die 𝗪𝗦𝗜-𝗔𝗿𝗯𝗲𝗶𝘁𝘀𝗸𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗳𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘇 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 mit einem Blick auf 2025: Zu verzeichnen ist ein Rückgang gegenüber 2023, doch die Tarifrunden verliefen weiterhin relativ streikintensiv durch Nachwirkungen der Inflationswelle. www.boeckler.de/de/pressemit...