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ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin @rfberlin.bsky.social · Sep 2

🚨 #CallForPapers We invite submissions to the RFBerlin Migration Forum.
🗓️ Deadline: 2 Nov 2025.
Submit your work now and share with colleagues! #MigrationForum2026 app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/79526...

ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin @rfberlin.bsky.social · Aug 11

📄📄📄Call for Papers is open!
RFBerlin invites submissions for the next Migration Forum "Migration: Drivers, Consequences, and Governance". Submit your work now and share this call with colleagues.
Submit now: app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/79526...
#Migration #Governance #callforpapers

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Jonas Jessen @jonasjessen.bsky.social · Aug 22

In January 2026 the excellent Perspectives on (Un-)Employment PhD Workshop is taking place, organised by @iabnews.bsky.social & @fauwiso.bsky.social 🏗️

Keynotes: Paula England & David Dorn 💡

Deadline: 30 September 2025

Aimed at: PhD Students in economics & sociology

More info: shorturl.at/jATG3

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Martin Friedrich @martinfriedrich.bsky.social · Aug 18

We’re thrilled to host Ulrike Malmendier at IAB for our next Special Lecture. Join us onsite or online to hear about her fascinating work.

🕑 September 16, 2025 | 1:00–2:30 PM CET

🔗 Register here to receive an onsite ticket or MS Teams link: eveeno.com/iab-speciall...

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Daniel Zhao @danielzhao.bsky.social · Aug 13

State of the tech job market halfway through 2025? Still stagnant, still not much better than the last 2.5 yrs.

Tech employment has dropped modestly from its Dec 2022 peak, falling 1.9%, or 76,000 jobs, with no improvement in 2025, despite the hype around AI + data center investment.

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Bar chart of month over month change payroll employment in manually defined tech industry. In H1 2025, 2,000 jobs were lost on average monthly. This is a continuation of stagnation/modest job losses in tech started at the beginning of 2023.

Sourced using data from Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Employment Statistics from the July 2025 release.

Line chart of payroll employment in manually defined tech industry. Tech employment is down 1.9% from the December 2022 peak or 76,000 fewer jobs.

Sourced using data from Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Employment Statistics from the July 2025 release.

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Martin Friedrich @martinfriedrich.bsky.social · Aug 8

Nomadland

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · Aug 3

Look at what happens to male teacher salaries (blue line) v.s. female teacher salaries (red line) after collective bargaining laws expire.

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Casey McQuillan @caseymcquillan.bsky.social · Jul 16

🚨🚨🚨 NEW WORKING PAPER: "The Benefits of UI for Marginally Attached Workers" with Brendan Moore

➡️ We find that UI minimally delays re-employment, but substantially improves labor market outcomes for low-income workers

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Princess Lisa SkyWalker @paraprod.bsky.social · Jul 13

Good news for the WPNBA! They've called in a Nobel prize winning economist who is a Harvard professor. She is working for them for free on the CBA negotiation. She agrees with the players so far and is calling BullShit on the owners. 🏀😺
#WNBASKY #WNBA
www.sportico.com/leagues/bask...

WNBA Union Calls on Nobel-Winning Economist in CBA Talks

The WNBA's player union has tapped Nobel Prize winner Claudia Goldin to assist as an unpaid consultant during CBA negotiations.

www.sportico.com

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Martin Friedrich @martinfriedrich.bsky.social · Jul 13

Gestern berichteten die Tagesthemen über die Arbeitsbedingungen bei Lieferdienst-Plattformen und einen drohenden Warnstreik. Ich durfte kurz für @iabnews.bsky.social zu Wort kommen.

www.tagesschau.de/multimedia/s...

Warnstreik bei Lieferando - Was die Fahrer wollen

www.tagesschau.de

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Simon Jäger @simonjaeger.bsky.social · Jul 11

Very excited that our paper (joint with Jarkko Harju and ‪@schoefer.bsky.social‬) on "Voice at Work" is published in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. We study what happened when workers in Finnish firms got a right to worker voice on the corporate board. 👇

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · Jul 6

Have you considered using LLMs to code open-ended survey responses?

This looks like a must read for you!

"An Empirical Investigation into the Utility of Large Language Models in Open-Ended Survey Data Categorization"

osf.io/preprints/so...

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Alex @s3alfisc.bsky.social · Jul 6

𝐏𝐲𝐅𝐢𝐱𝐞𝐬𝐭 0.30.1 is on 𝐏𝐲𝐏𝐢 and I am extremely happy with this release, mostly because of two 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬: a Rust back end for all performance critical parts and quantile regression.

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Martin Friedrich @martinfriedrich.bsky.social · Jul 6

Coole Sache. Aber was macht man, wenn man nicht schläft? Kann man sich darin aufrecht hinsetzen?

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Nye Cominetti @nyecominetti.bsky.social · Jul 1

That awkward thing where you write an annual report called 'Low Pay Britain' but 'low pay' has been all but eliminated (on the standard hourly pay < 2/3 median measure).

(Our 2025 Low Pay Britain report is out on Thursday, launch event here www.resolutionfoundation.org/events/new-d... )

The share of employees in low pay (defined as people with hourly pay below 2/3 median) has fallen to an all time low of 3 per cent thanks to increases in the minimum wage.

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NBER @nber.org · Jul 1

A pair of similar Black and White workers do not earn the same amount at their next employer, from Isaac Sorkin https://www.nber.org/papers/w33946

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German Embassy London @uk.diplo.de · Jun 17

On this day in 1953, around 1 million people in East Germany took to the streets to protest against the regime.

The largely peaceful uprising was violently suppressed.

West Germany celebrated the 1953 uprising as a public holiday until German Unity in 1990.

17 June 1953: Soviet tanks are gathering in East Berlin, by-standers are gathering in West Berlin and watch what is happening.

Demonstration in Leipzig on 17 June 1953.

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Christian Thiels @christianthiels.bsky.social · Jun 17

72 years ago today, brave men and women in East Germany took to the streets to stand up against the Soviet-sponsored socialist dictatorship of the SED-party. Their resistance was crushed by Russian tanks. But their legacy lived on and history proves that freedom will prevail!

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Martin Friedrich @martinfriedrich.bsky.social · Jun 16

Tolle Idee! Würde mich freuen, ins starter pack aufgenommen zu werden. Vielen Dank!

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Martin Friedrich @martinfriedrich.bsky.social · Jun 12

Only 5 days left to apply for our postdoc position in labor economics at @iabnews.bsky.social. #econsky

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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Jan Brülle @janbruelle.bsky.social · May 20

Gerne Weiterleiten: Promotionsstelle ab Herbst 2025 in meinem DFG-Projekt zu In-Work Benefits und Aufstockern im SGB II. Im schönen Wiesbaden am Bundesinstitut für Bevölkerungsforschung: www.bib.bund.de/DE/Institut/...

www.bib.bund.de

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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · Jun 11

Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "Nonbinary and Transgender Identities and Earnings: Evidence from a National Census" by Christopher S. Carpenter, Donn Feir, Krishna Pendakur, and Casey Warman. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Nonbinary and Transgender Identities and Earnings: Evidence from a National Census

(Forthcoming Article) - We provide the first evidence from a large population Census on earnings disparities experienced by nonbinary people—those who do not exclusively identify as men or women—and t...

www.aeaweb.org

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Tina Hinz @tinahinz.bsky.social · Jun 11

📣 Kommt digital vorbei und schaut, welche Daten für die #Forschung bei uns auf euch warten!

Bundesamt für Migration und Flüchtlinge @bamf.de · Jun 10

💻 Jetzt anmelden: Bei der nächsten Ausgabe unseres Online-Formats „BAMF-Forschung im Dialog“ dreht sich alles um neue Datenprodukte aus dem BAMF-FDZ!

📅 Donnerstag, 26.6.2025
🕚 11 bis 12 Uhr

Mehr dazu ▶️ www.bamf.de/SharedDocs/V...
#BAMFforscht

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Yuliya Kosyakova @yuliyakosyakova.bsky.social · Jun 11

📢 Just released: First results of our new large-scale longitudinal survey IMPa on return and onward migration in Germany. 50,000+ participants in wave 1 (Dec 2024–Apr 2025).

📄 Full report (in German): doku.iab.de/forschungsbe...
📘 English version coming soon — stay tuned!

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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · Jun 7

Hop on, ride off! 🚆🚲

As of today, bikes are welcome on-board of EU trains. All new and upgraded trains in the EU will have dedicated spots for full-sized bicycles.

So, you can ride wherever the train takes you!

Illustration of a woman with a helmet carrying a bicycle while boarding a blue and white train. The text reads: ‘Bikes on trains? You want it – EU got it!’ An EU flag is shown on the ground and in the top-left corner.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · Jun 5

THIS IS AMAZING! Researchers have made a SIGNIFICANT breakthrough in the quest for an HIV cure. By developing a method that enables the delivery of an mRNA-based therapy to make the virus VISIBLE WITHIN white blood cells, this approach paves the way to FULLY CLEAR the virus from the body. 🧪🧵⬇️

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