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Benjamin Schoefer

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Economics professor at UC Berkeley https://eml.berkeley.edu/~schoefer/

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ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin @rfberlin.bsky.social · 10d

What happens when firms set wages outside of national agreements?

"The Winners and Losers from Collective Bargaining Decentralization", by Christian Dustmann, Chiara Giannetto, Lorenzo Incoronato, @chiaralac.bsky.social, Vincenzo Pezone, Raffaele Saggio, and @schoefer.bsky.social.

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Authors Christian Dustmann(University College London & RFBerlin) Chiara Lacava(University of Naples Federico II) Benjamin Schoefer(University of California, Berk...

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ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin @rfberlin.bsky.social · 22d

We are delighted to conclude the RFBerlin Conference on Worker Co-Determination and Governance with a keynote lecture on “Eurosclerosis at 40: Labor Market Institutions, Dynamism, and European Competitiveness” by @schoefer.bsky.social.

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Simon Jäger @simonjaeger.bsky.social · Jul 31

What does consulting do? Lots of strongly held views, very limited data to answer the question.

In new ‪‪NBER paper, Gert Bijnens, @schoefer.bsky.social and I shed light on this question using the first economy-wide data on consulting relationships (based on VAT-based B2B data).

More info👇

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Chiara Lacava @chiaralac.bsky.social · Jul 30

Collective bargaining shapes labor markets, yet we know little about its effects. In our new WP, we track workers shifted to contracts with lower wage floors: wages fall, but employment rises, suggesting adjustments along the firm's labor demand curve.

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ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin @rfberlin.bsky.social · Jul 30

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper: Christian Dustmann, Chiara Giannetto, Lorenzo Incoronato, @chiaralac.bsky.social, Vincenzo Pezone, Raffaele Saggio and @schoefer.bsky.social present micro-empirical evidence on the effects of wage-setting decentralization. 🧵👇

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Alexander Wulfers @alexanderwulfers.com · Jul 27

Amerika hat Europa wirtschaftlich abgehängt. Viel ist schon über die Gründe philosophiert worden. Hier kommt ein neuer (aber eigentl. sehr alter) Vorschlag von @schoefer.bsky.social: Der Arbeitsmarkt ist das Problem. Europäer wechseln selten den Job. Der Staat gibt ihnen aber auch wenig Grund dazu.

Wie der Arbeitsmarkt in Europa das Wirtschaftswachstum verhindert

Amerika hat Europa wirtschaftlich abgehängt. Das hat damit zu tun, dass Europäer seltener den Job wechseln.

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IWH_Halle @iwh-halle.bsky.social · May 16

Das war er ‒ der 20. IWH/IAB-Workshop zur Arbeitsmarktpolitik: Arbeitskräfteknappheit und Arbeitsmarktinstitutionen. Mit spannenden Präsentationen, regem Austausch und gelungener Keynote von @schoefer.bsky.social. Danke an alle Beteiligten, Gäste und unseren Mitstreiter @iabnews.bsky.social.

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IWH_Halle @iwh-halle.bsky.social · Mar 17

20. IWH/IAB-Workshop zur Arbeitsmarktpolitik: Arbeitskräfteknappheit und Arbeitsmarktinstitutionen

📍 @iwh-halle.bsky.social, Halle (Saale)
📅 15./16. Mai 2025

Keynote: Benjamin @schoefer.bsky.social (UC Berkeley)

➡ Infos & Programm: bit.ly/4i2FZVn
➡ Registrierung (bis 25. April): bit.ly/3PWtiir

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Giuseppe Ippedico @peppeippedico.bsky.social · Feb 14

📢 *Updated* Call for Paper 📢

2nd workshop in Labour Economics at Nottingham GEP @uniofnottingham.bsky.social

When: June 16-17, 2025

Keynotes: @schoefer.bsky.social and Alexandra Roulet

Small workshop, great opportunity for feedback!

Submit by March 15 🗓️

Link: t.ly/e4dtL

#EconSky #EconConf

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Martina Uccioli @martinauccioli.bsky.social · Feb 14

✨✨Important Updates!✨✨

2nd Labour Workshop in Nottingham

🎵Amazing Keynotes: @schoefer.bsky.social and Alexandra Roulet
🗺️Where: @uniofnottingham.bsky.social
📆When: 16-17 June

Submit by March 15 ➡️shorturl.at/TZqG0

text of the call for papers available at the link shorturl.at/TZqG0

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Simon Jäger @simonjaeger.bsky.social · Dec 24

How do unions and collective bargaining work around the world? And how do they affect the wage structure?

A new paper with Suresh Naidu and Benjamin Schoefer
@schoefer.bsky.social out NBER WP today and prepared for the Handbook of Labor Economics.

Thread below. 👇

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Alex Busch @alexanderbusch.bsky.social · Dec 23

Don't miss this enormous overview of collective bargaining literature and institutions + a model of how unions shape wages applied to 26 countries! My final pre-doc RA'ed project is finally out - including a little preview of something that I've been working on :)

www.nber.org/papers/w3326...

Collective Bargaining, Unions, and the Wage Structure: An International Perspective

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

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Simon Jäger @simonjaeger.bsky.social · Dec 21

Our paper (w/ Jarkko Harju and @schoefer.bsky.social ) on what happened when Finland introduced a right to worker representation on corporate boards, now in @aeajournals.bsky.social: Applied. 👇

AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · Dec 6

Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Voice at Work" by Jarkko Harju, Simon Jäger, and Benjamin Schoefer. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Voice at Work

(Forthcoming Article) - We estimate the effects of worker voice on productivity, job quality, and separations. We study the 1991 introduction of a right to worker representation on boards or advisory ...

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NBER @nber.org · Dec 18

Why are dismissals so fraught with conflict? Evidence from the introduction of "Separations by Mutual Agreement" in France, from Pauline Carry and Benjamin Schoefer https://www.nber.org/papers/w33245

Benjamin Schoefer @schoefer.bsky.social · Nov 24

Excited to share a new paper w/ Matthias Mertens:

From Labor to Intermediates: Firm Growth, Input Substitution, and Monopsony

Also: implications for firm-level labor share dynamics.

PDFs:
www.nber.org/papers/w33172
eml.berkeley.edu/~schoefer/sc...

Longer Twitter summary:
x.com/Schoefer_B/s...

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Oren Ziv @orenziv.bsky.social · Nov 14

Just in time for our departure en masse, REStat tweeted our article in the Sep issues. Cross posted for #econsky:
New fact: 75% of the differences in productivity across cities reflects plant-level idiosyncrasies.
t.co/fo633CbMXU
Lead article, so it’s open access!

https://zurl.co/YrxQ

t.co

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Benjamin Schoefer @schoefer.bsky.social · Oct 15

New paper!

David Seim @seimseim.bsky.social · Oct 15

How many jobs are "deadwood"?
Which ones?
Where?
What role do firing costs and employment protections play?

In our new paper (w/ Benjamin Schoefer, Emmanuel Saez), we find some answers:

Deadwood Labor:
The Effects of Eliminating Employment Protection

PDF:

eml.berkeley.edu/~schoefer/sc...

eml.berkeley.edu

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David Seim @seimseim.bsky.social · Oct 15

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