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Senior Economist at #OECD working on #inequality, #socialmobility, #labourmarkets, #socialprotection | Research Fellow @IZA.org | Econ DPhil from @ox.ac.uk | all views my own sites.google.com/view/sebastiankoenigs 📍Paris 18 .. more

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Sebastian Königs @sebkoenigs.bsky.social · 7d

🪜 Very happy to see @jterrerodavila.bsky.social‘s and my work on income mobility using tax record data from 🇦🇹, 🇧🇪, 🇨🇦, and 🇪🇪covered in the LSE #Inequalities blog

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LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · 10d

In our latest blog, Javier Terrero Dávila (@oecdsocial.bsky.social) asks how much income mobility do different countries exhibit?

And how does it vary across different groups relating to age, gender, education and where people live?

#LSEInequalitiesBlog

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Who climbs the income ladder? New evidence from tax records

Using surveys to track short-term social mobility – how much people move up or down the income ladder – has limitations. How can using administrative data help?

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OECD Social @oecdsocial.bsky.social · 8d

Trade union membership & collective bargaining coverage have halved since the 1980s across most #OECD countries, while #employer organisation membership remains stable.

Explore the trends & challenges 👉 oe.cd/6cz

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LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · 10d

Who climbs the income ladder? New evidence from tax records

Using surveys to track short-term social mobility – how much people move up or down the income ladder – has limitations. How can using administrative data help?

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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Sebastian Königs @sebkoenigs.bsky.social · Aug 22

„Paris is particularly ill-adapted to heat waves. A 2023 study published in the London-based medical journal The Lancet deemed it the European capital whose residents were most exposed to heat-related deaths.“ #Paris #climatechange

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/w...

Paris Braces for a Future of Possibly Paralyzing Heat

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OECD Social @oecdsocial.bsky.social · Jul 24

📣 Just released: The @OECD’s Review of Labour Market and Social Policies in #Romania, prepared in the context of Romania’s accession process to OECD.

Find out how #Romania compares to OECD countries in the areas of employment, social and migration policy: oe.cd/686

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Janet Gornick @janetgornick.bsky.social · Jun 2

PhD students studying #inequality! Check out this online PhD Workshop, scheduled for July 2, 2025. Application deadline is June 8. Call-for-papers link below. Hosted by #ECINEQ. Direct questions to [email protected].

@stone-lis.bsky.social @lisdata.bsky.social

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This workshop is designed to bring together PhD candidates from diverse fields to explore and discuss their latest research on economic inequality. The workshop provides a platform to share research i...

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Martin Friedrich @martinfriedrich.bsky.social · Jun 2

We're hiring a postdoc in labor economics at IAB Nuremberg! Join @ineshelmecon.bsky.social, @jnimczik.bsky.social & me on a project about gig work.

🗓️ Start: 1 Oct 25
💶 Salary ≥ €5200/month 
🌱 Possibility to apply for tenure track program

Apply here until 17 June: econjobmarket.org/positions/11...

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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · May 17

Just learned something new. You can buy spurious citations that will show up on Google Scholar -- and people do.

John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · May 17

Nice.

arxiv.org/abs/2402.04607

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OECD Social @oecdsocial.bsky.social · May 16

As children’s digital lives evolve, so must our approach to their #WellBeing.
Discover the new OECD report that dives into how to empower kids to take advantage of new opportunities online, while protecting them from potential risks.
🔗 oe.cd/622

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · May 12

OK, this is wild.

In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.

It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.

What the HELL?

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Unsplash image of the Earth, mostly the nightside with a tracery of city lights on every continent.

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OECD Social @oecdsocial.bsky.social · May 6

📣 Just released: The @OECD’s Review of Labour Market and Social Policies in #Bulgaria, prepared in the context of Bulgaria’s accession process to OECD.

Find out how Bulgaria compares to OECD countries in the areas of employment, social and migration policy: oe.cd/60u

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · Apr 30

Screeching contestants gathered in Belgium on Sunday for the fifth annual European Gull Scream Championship, a competition meant to see who could produce the best imitation of a sea gull.

Read more: nyti.ms/4jyRF2M

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Sebastian Königs @sebkoenigs.bsky.social · Apr 28

📢 Great #internship opportunity in a wonderful team in @oecdsocial.bsky.social for students interested in #affordablehousing, #socialhousing and #homelessness 🏠

🙏 Please circulate and apply!
@alibargu.bsky.social

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OECD housing internship_Summer-Fall 2025 | Marissa (Ellis) Plouin

We're looking for a top-notch #intern to join the housing team in OECD Social, ideally based in Paris from summer through fall 2025. We're looking for someone who is: 🏠 interested in #afforda...

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · Apr 21

Rainfall distribution across Europe. London not so bad.

A map of rainfall distribution across Europe with western Scotland and Norway looking particularly bad

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Sebastian Königs @sebkoenigs.bsky.social · Mar 30

Spannendes Gespräch. Ich hab einiges dazugelernt!

Sebastian Königs @sebkoenigs.bsky.social · Mar 27

„We find that [future] elites implement more unequal earnings distributions than the average American, are highly sensitive to both merit-based inequality and efficiency costs of redistribution, and are less likely to hold strict meritocratic views.“ #inequality @iza.org

www.iza.org/publications...

Are Elites Meritocratic and Efficiency-Seeking? Evidence from MBA Students

Elites disproportionately influence policymaking, yet little is known about their fairness and efficiency preferences–key determinants of support for...

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Sebastian Königs @sebkoenigs.bsky.social · Mar 25

Striking cleavage in the results of the recent #Paris referendum on further greening the city: 🗳️ 🌳

In the (left-leaning) 10e and 11e arrondissement 83% and 79% of votes in favour of the motion; in the (right-leaning) 7e and 16e arrondissement 66% and 73% against it.

www.paris.fr/pages/nouvel...

Votation du 23 mars : 65,96% des votants pour piétonniser et végétaliser 500 nouvelles rues

La troisième votation organisée à Paris portait sur la végétalisation et la piétonnisation de 500 nouvelles rues. Les habitants de sept arrondissements étaient par ailleurs invités à répondre à des qu...

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Sebastian Königs @sebkoenigs.bsky.social · Mar 22

„In #Paris könnten 500 Straßen autofrei werden. Zigtausend Parkplätze könnten wegfallen – und die Menschen mehr Grün gewinnen: Am Sonntag findet in Paris eine Abstimmung statt, die das Antlitz der Stadt verändern könnte.“

www.spiegel.de/auto/paris-r...

Paris: Referendum könnte mehr als 500 Straßen autofrei machen

Zigtausend Parkplätze könnten wegfallen – und die Menschen mehr Grün gewinnen: Am Sonntag findet in Paris eine Abstimmung statt, die das Antlitz der Stadt verändern könnte.

www.spiegel.de

Sebastian Königs @sebkoenigs.bsky.social · Mar 19

This is indeed being done. Is there any empirical evidence though that such messages have any effect on customers?

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Sebastian Königs @sebkoenigs.bsky.social · Mar 19

„Mean distance from employee home to employer worksite rose from 15 miles in 2019 to 26 miles in 2023. Twelve percent of employees hired after March 2020 live at least fifty miles from their employers in 2023, triple the pre-pandemic share.“

www.nber.org/papers/w33582

The New Geography of Labor Markets

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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Sebastian Königs @sebkoenigs.bsky.social · Mar 18

„This paper investigates self-reported wedges between how much people work and how much they want to work, at their current wage. More than two-thirds of full-time workers in German survey data are overworked—actual hours exceed desired hours.“

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Matt Collin @mattcollin.bsky.social · Mar 17

If you're young and are interested in international development, it is hard to beat doing an ODI Fellowship

careers.odi.org/postings/71e...

It is a rare opportunity for foreigners to work as a civil servant in a low or lower-middle income country

Why is this a good idea? 👇

ODI Fellowship Scheme 2025-27

Job Opening: ODI Fellowship Scheme 2025-27 at ODI Global in Global.

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Sebastian Königs @sebkoenigs.bsky.social · Mar 12

📢 I am delighted to share that the #OECD ELS Directorate is now active on Bluesky, posting here about our work on #employment, #social, #migration, and #health policy… and of course on #inequality 🌎

@oecdsocial.bsky.social

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Simply Railway @simplyrailways.bsky.social · Mar 11

This morning, @sncf-voyageurs.bsky.social and @alstom.bsky.social finally unveiled the brand-new #TGVM to the public!

Let’s take a look inside the latest generation of high-speed trains 🚄🇫🇷

A thread 👇

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LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · Mar 3

📣 We are excited to share the launch of LACIR x Oxford Open Economics: Rethinking Inequality in Latin America.

The culmination of a multi-year collaboration between over 70 scholars, the papers in this issue ask: why does inequality endure? And what forces sustain it?

🔗 buff.ly/661Df1W

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Hannah Ritchie @hannahritchie.bsky.social · Mar 3

🌡 New on @ourworldindata.org:

We added global temperature anomaly charts *coloured by El Nino / La Nina periods*.

Today's "cool" years are warmer than "warm" years of the past.

[New article and charts by my colleague Veronika Samborska and I: ourworldindata.org/global-tempe... ]

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VoxEU @ CEPR @voxeu.org · Mar 3

Less income #inequality between #EU states is driven by labour incomes in lower-income countries. A more centralised fiscal framework can play a crucial role in shaping EU-wide inequality.
@stefanofilauro.bsky.social @zparolin.bsky.social @pietrovaletto.bsky.social
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A bar graph of inequality in the EU showing decomposition by country, post-tax/transfer income in 2007 and 2019. Within-country inequality rises between 2007-2019 while between-country inequality falls.

Between 2007 and 2019, inequality within many EU countries increased, while inequality between countries declined. This column examines these seemingly contradictory trends, as well as the role played by market inequality and redistribution. Most of the progress has been driven by rising labour incomes in lower-income countries. Changes in employment, education, and demographics had a minor impact on reducing inequality. By more effectively targeting disadvantaged regions and vulnerable groups, cohesion policy can help counteract rising within-country inequality. A harmonised tax transfer system across countries or a more centralised fiscal framework can play a crucial role in shaping EU-wide inequality.

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Sebastian Königs @sebkoenigs.bsky.social · Feb 23

“Getlink believes it is possible for train services to Bordeaux, Cologne, Frankfurt, Geneva, Marseille and Zurich to be created.”

www.bbc.com/news/article...

St Pancras plans for direct trains from UK to Germany

The London station's owner and Eurotunnel hope to expand routes to Cologne, Frankfurt and Switzerland.

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Sebastian Königs @sebkoenigs.bsky.social · Feb 21

Looks charming. Where is this?

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