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Oskar Nordström Skans @oskarnskans.bsky.social · Sep 6

Excited to start as co-editor at the ILR-Review. Hope to see your best work on wages, employment, inequality,... or any other "core" labor market topic. And - unsurprising for those of you who heard my favorite rant - I will never desk reject without a motivation... journals.sagepub.com/home/ilr

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Finnish Centre of Excellence in Tax Systems Research FIT @verotutkimus.fi · Aug 26

Thank you, all WEI III participants, for your valuable contributions and vivid discussions, which made the event a success!

A big hand also to the organisers
@tuomaskosonen.bsky.social @oskarnskans.bsky.social

A brief account on WEI is now on the FIT site! 👇
verotutkimus.fi/en/wei2025/

» Leading economists convened in Helsinki for WEI 2025: Wages, Employment and Inequality

<p>Almost 70 economists from across Europe gathered in Helsinki on 21–22 August 2025 for the third Workshop in Labor Economics: Wages, Employment and Inequality (WEI 2025). The two-day event featured ...

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Finnish Centre of Excellence in Tax Systems Research FIT @verotutkimus.fi · Aug 21

Wages, Employment & Inequality workshop had a great start with Stephen Machin as the first keynote speaker!🤩

Organisers: @tuomaskosonen.bsky.social & @oskarnskans.bsky.social🫡

Funders: FIT/Research Council of Finland, @vatt-research.bsky.social, YJS Foundation, Handelsbankens Forskningsstiftelser🙏

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Oskar Nordström Skans @oskarnskans.bsky.social · Aug 19

Following this on TV, the peak of the necessary destruction of Kiruna town center where I grew up. Soon it will be a park there, until cracks from the mine become too severe even for that. Remarkable, as everything about this town in the far north, but also pretty sad... www.bbc.com/news/article...

Entire church begins two-day journey across Swedish city of Kiruna

The landmark 113-year-old wooden building is at risk from subsidence and will be moved 5km on giant rolling platforms.

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INOMICS @inomics.bsky.social · Jul 12

One to Two Senior Lecturers in Economics #Econsky

One to Two Senior Lecturers in Economics

The department of Economics at Umeå School of Business, Economics and Statistics is looking for senior lecturers in economics.

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Oskar Nordström Skans @oskarnskans.bsky.social · Jul 1

The picture I posted is from 2015 when he just formally retired because of health issues and we celebrated my inauguration as his successor. Obviously, I never came close to replacing him, but I really felt his support and the memory of the joint celebration still means a lot to me.

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Oskar Nordström Skans @oskarnskans.bsky.social · Jul 1

One of the amazing things Bertil did was to tell you the date he could review a paper a month in advance, and if you would send him the paper on that day, you had an incredibly insightful report the day after. It should be possible for al of us, but somehow only he could do it.

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Oskar Nordström Skans @oskarnskans.bsky.social · Jul 1

Bertil was extremely broad, and a true mentor to all of us. His theoretical and empirical contributions covered, e.g., optimal unemployment insurance, taxation, wage setting, and education. He chaired the Nobel Prize committee and was an extremely respected authority in Nordic policy circles.

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Oskar Nordström Skans @oskarnskans.bsky.social · Jul 1

Extremely sad to learn that former @eale-office.bsky.social president Bertil Holmlund has passed away. Bertil was the founder of the strong Uppsala labor environment. Working with him was a true learning experience. Kind, funny, smart, and unbelievably efficient. He will be deeply missed.

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Oskar Nordström Skans @oskarnskans.bsky.social · Jun 12

Also consider applying to the twin position within the same cluster, placed at Örebro University www.oru.se/english/care...

Doctoral student in Economics - Örebro University

We are currently inviting applications to the doctoral programme in Economics, which leads to a doctoral degree and includes participation in the national

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Oskar Nordström Skans @oskarnskans.bsky.social · Jun 12

PhD position in Labor Economics on AI, Structural change & the Future of Work. A very exciting research group: Uppsala's excellent Labor Econ Environment--integrated with other schools, fields, practitioners, and leading international scholars. Apply now--call is short! uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

PhD-student in Economics for our interdisciplinary project with WASP-HS

The Department of Economics is one of the largest departments within the Faculty of Social Sciences with approximately 100 employees from a dozen countries. Each year about 1,000 students participate

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Oskar Nordström Skans @oskarnskans.bsky.social · Jun 7

The most remarkable aspect of this, in particular in these times, is that the decision was accepted on the Swedish side (despite nationalist idiots protesting loudly), and the two countries lived happily ever after side-by-side as best friends forever without remorse on either side.

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Ines Helm @ineshelmecon.bsky.social · May 29

📢 We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Employment Research (@iabnews.bsky.social) for our research project on the gig economy! #EconSky

Link: econjobmarket.org/positions/11...
start date: October 2025

Some German knowledge is required.

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Ines Helm @ineshelmecon.bsky.social · May 8

📢 WE are hiring a Professor in Labor Economics at JKU Linz!

Come and join us! We are a young and active department with a strong focus in applied econ.

Link: tinyurl.com/jkulabor

Please help us spread the word and RT.

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Oskar Nordström Skans @oskarnskans.bsky.social · May 7

Looking forward to the work -- learned so much allready at the application stage from fantastic co-leaders and the other great team members! So, help us find talented young scientists to come work with us!

Oskar Nordström Skans @oskarnskans.bsky.social · May 7

We will start by recruiting PhD students in Econ and Sociology, and move to Post Docs thereafter, probably starting 2026. More News to come!

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Oskar Nordström Skans @oskarnskans.bsky.social · May 7

Cluster combines our amazing team at Uppsala Econ with sociologists, economists, and business studies people at Mälardalen, Örebro and the Royal institute of technology (KTH). My co-leaders are Moa Bursell (MDU) and Magnus Lodefalk (Örebro). Money is for juniors and senior guest researchers.

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Oskar Nordström Skans @oskarnskans.bsky.social · Apr 18

Dislike that it somehow has become industry standard to not provide a motivation when desk rejecting. I never did this as an editor. It takes time to read and assess, but not to provide a motivation. It is a good lazy test - if you properly assessed the paper, you can write a motivation in 2 minutes

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Bas van der Klaauw @basvdklaauw.bsky.social · Apr 9

💡 Tinbergen Institute Summer School in Applied Public Policy Evaluation

🎓 Joint with Pierre Koning

⏰ July 7 - July 11 in Amsterdam

💸 Early bird fee until April 15

🖊️ More information and registration at tinbergen.nl/applied-publ...

@tinbergeninstitute.bsky.social

Summer School Applied Public Policy Evaluation

Apply now: July 7-July 11, 2025 in Amsterdam, Zuidas

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Anders Akerman @anders-akerman.bsky.social · Apr 4

Om man tar USTRs formel för tullar på allvar (vilket man inte borde), och använder de parametrar som litteraturen de citerar kommer fram till, så borde USAs tullar bara vara en fjärdedel så höga.
Som exempelvis Brent Neiman, en av författarna till studien som citeras, påpekat. (1/5)

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Finnish Centre of Excellence in Tax Systems Research FIT @verotutkimus.fi · Mar 25

📢Submit your paper to WEI 2025 now, the DL is March,30!

The Workshop in Labor Economics: Wages, Employment and Inequality in Helsinki in August with Magne Mogstad and Stephen Machin as keynote speakers!

Organisers @tuomaskosonen.bsky.social & @oskarnskans.bsky.social

verotutkimus.fi/en/wei2025/

» Call for Papers: Workshop in Labor Economics: Wages, Employment and Inequality (WEI 2025)

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Oskar Nordström Skans @oskarnskans.bsky.social · Mar 23

Ja precis, men poängen är att avgiften, förutom att vara låg vilket gör stt det är en bra bas om vi måste höja intäkterna, är regressiv i sin konstruktion - de med dyrare hus betalar en lägre procentuell avgift.

NBER @nber.org · Mar 23

Scandinavian employees work more from home. Likely causes are high trust and advanced technology. Increases in remote work affect the spatial distribution of local service jobs, from Adam Gill, Lena E. Hensvik, and Oskar Nordström Skans https://www.nber.org/papers/w33581

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Oskar Nordström Skans @oskarnskans.bsky.social · Mar 23

Vi kan ju börja med att ta bort taket på fastighetsavgiften, så behöver vi inte kalla det fastighetsskatt, mer som att vi slutar särbehandla de med högvärderade fastigheter.

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Oskar Nordström Skans @oskarnskans.bsky.social · Mar 23

Really cool article in the New York Times on our family home - and such a fun film with one of our brilliant young family guides www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/t...

The Hand-Embellished Countryside Homes That Helped Define Scandinavian Style (Gift Article)

The houses of two of Sweden’s most influential artists and designers, Carl and Karin Larsson, came to shape the country’s national identity — and now represent an aesthetic ideal.

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Oskar Nordström Skans @oskarnskans.bsky.social · Mar 17

New NBER WP (forthcoming book chapter) with @adam-gill.bsky.social and Lena Hensvik on the very high rates of work-from-home in all Nordic countries -- already before the pandemic. Some likely causes, and some consequences for service workers www.nber.org/papers/w33581

Why Are Nordic Workers so Remote?: Potential Causes and (Some) Indirect Labor Market Consequences

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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Jonas Vlachos @jonasvlachos.bsky.social · Mar 13

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/...

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

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Oskar Nordström Skans @oskarnskans.bsky.social · Feb 11

Submit your "core" labor economics papers (wages, employment..) to this great workshop I co-organize for the third time - join with, e.g., Cardoso, Machin, Mogstad and Spitz-Oener for some serious Labor Economics in Helsinki in August!

Finnish Centre of Excellence in Tax Systems Research FIT @verotutkimus.fi · Feb 10

Coming up: WEI 2025 - the popular Workshop in Labor Economics: Wages, Employment and Inequality in Helsinki in August with Magne Mogstad & Stephen Machin as keynote speakers!

Submit your paper by 30 March!

verotutkimus.fi/en/wei2025/

Organisers:@tuomaskosonen.bsky.social @oskarnskans.bsky.social

» Call for Papers: Workshop in Labor Economics: Wages, Employment and Inequality (WEI 2025)

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Finnish Centre of Excellence in Tax Systems Research FIT @verotutkimus.fi · Feb 10

Coming up: WEI 2025 - the popular Workshop in Labor Economics: Wages, Employment and Inequality in Helsinki in August with Magne Mogstad & Stephen Machin as keynote speakers!

Submit your paper by 30 March!

verotutkimus.fi/en/wei2025/

Organisers:@tuomaskosonen.bsky.social @oskarnskans.bsky.social

» Call for Papers: Workshop in Labor Economics: Wages, Employment and Inequality (WEI 2025)

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Oskar Nordström Skans @oskarnskans.bsky.social · Jan 31

If you are in Chicago, go visit this marvelous exhibition, now open at the Swedish American Museum, showing the art of perfect imperfection by my great-great-grandmother rightsandbrands.com/news/karin-l...

"Karin Larsson - Let the Hand Be Seen" travels to three museums in the USA

"Karin Larsson - Let the Hand Be Seen" is currently on display at the American Swedish Historical Museum in Philadelphia, USA, showcasing the artistic works of Karin Larsson. The exhibition will subse...

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