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Michael Irlacher @michaelirlacher.bsky.social · 19d

Thanks to everyone for making the 4th @centrefiw.bsky.social workshop @jku-economics.bsky.social a great success again! @ho2604.bsky.social @ineshelmecon.bsky.social @karinmayrdorn.bsky.social

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Jan Kabatek 🇺🇦 @jankabatek.com · 23d

📢 We're hiring! 📢

Two tenure-track positions in empirical micro, no teaching obligations👇👇

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Emphasis: childhood development & indigenous outcomes

Come join us in beautiful Melbourne!

‼️𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞: 𝟑𝟎 𝐒𝐞𝐩‼️

EJM - Econ Job Market

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JKU Department of Economics @jku-economics.bsky.social · Jun 19

📢VACANCY

@b-kasberger.bsky.social is hiring a Pre-Doc on his DFG project “Strategic Uncertainty in Market Design.”

Candidates are expected to conduct their own research in (applied) micro theory, with an interest in writing a PhD thesis.

Deadline: July 9

Details:
karriere.jku.at/hcm/jobexcha...

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Anna Bindler @annabindler.bsky.social · Jun 19

Still time to apply to our 9th Potsdam PhD Workshop in Empirical Economics, incl. a lecture series by Jens Hainmueller (Stanford) + keynote lecture by Amanda Agan (Cornell )!

We look forward to applications from PhD students & recent postdocs.

📅 Sep 24-25.
⏳ Deadline: June 30.

Further details 👇

CEPA @cepa-unipotsdam.bsky.social · May 22

We are pleased to announce the 9th Potsdam PhD Workshop in Empirical Economics, which will be held September 24–25, 2025. The workshop aims to allow talented young researchers to present and discuss their research. For details and the CfP, follow this link: www.uni-potsdam.de/en/cepa/even...

Other Events

www.uni-potsdam.de

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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

uu.varbi.com

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Ines Helm @ineshelmecon.bsky.social · Jun 11

📢 One more week to apply for our full professorship position in Labor Economics at JKU Linz!

More info 👇.

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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Achim Zeileis @zeileis.org · Jun 5

📢 Come work with us!

🏛️ Faculty of Economics & Statistics, UIBK @econstatuibk.bsky.social‬ @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social‬

‼️ Three job openings for Full Professor positions

- Data Science

- Microeconomics

- Behavioral Economics

Please share! #datascience #economics

www.uibk.ac.at/de/info-beru...

Aktuelle Ausschreibungen – Universität Innsbruck

None

www.uibk.ac.at

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Bastian Schulz @bsecon.bsky.social · Apr 30

🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 🚨

-- 1st Aarhus Workshop on Labor Markets --

We welcome empirical and structural work with applications on labor market dynamics, policies, and outcomes.

📍Where? Aarhus University, Denmark
📆 When? 22/10 - 24/10
⏰ Deadline: 22/8

Submit: app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/78820...

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Konrad Burchardi @konradburchardi.bsky.social · Jun 2

💥Research Assistant Positions💥

1. Ingvild Almås, Timo Boppart, Thor Berger, Hannes Malmberg, and I are looking for a research assistant to work on a project which investigates Sweden's spectacular economic growth during the late 19th century using establishment-level data.

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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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Zohal Hessami @zohalhessami.bsky.social · May 28

🚨PhD position at my Chair for Social Policy & Public Economics @ruhr-uni-bochum.de available. APPLY NOW!!! Deadline: 08 June 2025. Start date flexible: August 2025 or later. 75% TV-L E-13. Please share within your networks.

jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/e...

Wissenschaftliche*n Mitarbeiter*in (m/w/d); Doktorand (m/w/d)

jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de

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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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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · May 15

NEW with @simonkuper.bsky.social:

The prevailing narrative around increased injuries and player workload in elite football is wrong.

Players don’t play any more football than in the past. What has changed is a sharp rise in intensity of play.

Not more minutes, but each minute exerts more load.

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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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Sandy Black @econsandy.bsky.social · Apr 17

I am going to be giving a keynote lecture (online) on April 28 at 12:30 (EDT--New York) with my advice for young economists.

Register here for the keynote and get more information about the conference, which looks like a great lineup!

sites.google.com/view/amie-4t...

@econmentoring.bsky.social

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ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin @rfberlin.bsky.social · Apr 24

We are hiring!
Join us as a Research Officer for the Global Migration Information Hub — a platform for research and knowledge exchange on global migration and public policy.
If you’re passionate about migration, data, and communication, we’d love to hear from you.
👉 www.rfberlin.com/job/research...

Research Officer (Global Migration Information Hub)

The ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin – Institute for the Economy and the Future of Work (RFBerlin) is a research institute focused on data-driven, high-quality research. We are seeking a Research Officer to...

www.rfberlin.com

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Tommaso Frattini @tomfratti.bsky.social · Apr 28

⚠️‼️Are you interested in migration, migration policy, data, communication?

Check out this job opening at @rfberlin.bsky.social 👇👇
www.rfberlin.com/job/research...

Looking forward to receiving many applications!

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Henry G Overman @henryoverman.bsky.social · Apr 25

Call for papers for our Montreal meetings now live. Submission deadline 30th May.

Urban Economics Association @urbaneconomics.bsky.social · Apr 17

📣 Call for papers 📣

19th North American Meeting of the Urban Economics Association
October 3 - 4, 2025
Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Canada

Keynotes by Cecile Gaubert and Keith Head.

Please submit your paper by May 30.

urbaneconomics.org/meetings/uea...

UEA 2025 Montréal

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Barbara Boelmann @barbaraboelmann.bsky.social · Apr 23

Hi #TeachEcon, next week I‘ll teach a hands-on class about AI for literature research and academic writing for undergrads. We‘ll be comparing outputs of different tools. What are tools you think we should be testing? 😊

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ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin @rfberlin.bsky.social · Apr 16

Applications are now open for the next RFBerlin Handbook Masterclass! Join Arindrajit Dube and Attila Lindner in Berlin on for two days of in-depth teaching on Minimum Wages in the 21st Century.

Apply now: www.rfberlin.com/event/rfberl...

“Minimum Wages in the 21st Century” by Arindrajit Dube and Attila Lindner

We are delighted to continue the ROCKWOOL Foundation Handbook Masterclass Series, based on the Handbook of Labour Economics. This series invites contributed authors of handbook chapters to Berlin for ...

www.rfberlin.com

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Martin Friedrich @martinfriedrich.bsky.social · Apr 16

Den Beitrag habe ich zusammen mit @ineshelmecon.bsky.social, Ramona Jost, Julia Lang und Christoph Müller geschrieben. Es ist hier zu finden: www.iab-forum.de/app-basierte...

App-basierte Lieferdienste in Deutschland: Warum Menschen Gig-Work aufnehmen und meist schnell wieder beenden - IAB-Forum

Gig-Worker kündigen nach einer IAB-Studie häufiger als Hilfsarbeitskräfte aufgrund unangenehmer Arbeitsbedingungen oder geringer Löhne.

www.iab-forum.de

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Martin Friedrich @martinfriedrich.bsky.social · Apr 8

IAB has launched a new starter pack featuring affiliated researchers. Follow this brilliant group for in-depth analysis of the labour market. #EconSky

go.bsky.app/CNDFQxn

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INOMICS @inomics.bsky.social · Mar 29

Researcher (f/m/d) at the research unit Migration and International Labour Studies at the IAB in Nürnberg #Econsky

Researcher (f/m/d) at the research unit Migration and International Labour Studies at the IAB in Nürnberg

The research unit Migration and International Labour Studies is looking for a full-time researcher focusing on labour market policies and their effect on the integration of refugees. The integration of refugees plays a very important role in a number of economic and societal challenges. The position is part of a project on the evaluation of the effect of labour market policies on the integration of refugees in Germany. Using microdata you would be focusing on the…

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Jan Sauermann @jansauermann.bsky.social · Mar 28

EALE @eale-office.bsky.social is now on Bluesky. Let’s give it a warm welcome!
#EconSky 📉📈

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Julius Tröger @juliustroeger.bsky.social · Mar 20

Wegen großer Nachfrage haben wir nun die Rohdaten hinter "So hat Ihre Gemeinde gewählt" www.zeit.de/politik/deut... -> github.com/ZeitOnline/b... und "So hat Ihr Wahlkreis seit 1949 gewählt" www.zeit.de/politik/deut... -> github.com/ZeitOnline/b... auf Github frei zugänglich gemacht.

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