Join our team at the Dept of Econ, Stockholm University! We are hiring a full-time pre-doc to work on exciting projects on inequality that leverage administrative data. www.su.se/english/abou...

Please RT: Our fundraising at @malengo has been slow! We want to support as many students as possible on their journey from Uganda to a Bachelor's degree in Germany. Please support us! Donations are tax deductible in the US and Germany. Details at malengo.org/donate. Thanks!

Seth Zimmerman and I are organizing the Cowles Labor and Public Economics Conference at Yale, June 3-4. Submit your papers by March 22: cowles.yale.edu/conferences/...

Dep of Economics at Stockholm University is hiring on the junior market. Please spread the word! #EconSky econjobmarket.org/statuses?oid...

With @schoefer.bsky.social

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...

Timely new book out next week
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/breaking-t...

Apologies! Send papers or extended abstracts to [email protected].

Submission deadline on Sunday October 1! Claus Kreiner and I are organizing an inaugural conference in Public Policy targeted to researchers working in/on the Nordic countries on December 14-15 in Stockholm. Call for papers here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ehgix...

🚨 Updated WP alert 🚨 New findings on the impact of state-owned enterprise privatization in Sweden. Productivity up, but at a cost to workers. Social safety nets cushion half of the blow. No spillovers on family, health, or finances. PDF: jtag.se/pub/workingp...