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simonjaeger.bsky.social

Labor Economist | Econ Prof @Princeton https://jaeger.scholar.princeton.edu/

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How do unions and collective bargaining work around the world? And how do they affect the wage structure? A new paper with Suresh Naidu and Benjamin Schoefer @schoefer.bsky.social out NBER WP today and prepared for the Handbook of Labor Economics. Thread below. 👇

submitted 67 days ago • 4 comments

Fascinating new paper by @simonjaeger.bsky.social, Suresh Naidu, and @schoefer.bsky.social! www.nber.org/papers/w33267

submitted 68 days ago • 3 comments

Don't miss this enormous overview of collective bargaining literature and institutions + a model of how unions shape wages applied to 26 countries! My final pre-doc RA'ed project is finally out - including a little preview of something that I've been working on :) www.nber.org/papers/w3326...

submitted 68 days ago • 2 comments

New paper w/ @simonjaeger.bsky.social & Suresh Naidu An attempt at an account of how unions/collective bargaining work and shape wages, across various international settings. In prep for Handbook of Labor => please email us any feedback! www.nber.org/papers/w33267 eml.berkeley.edu/~schoefer/sc...

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

Our paper (w/ Jarkko Harju and @schoefer.bsky.social ) on what happened when Finland introduced a right to worker representation on corporate boards, now in @aeajournals.bsky.social: Applied. 👇

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

Wir haben geredet: @christian-bayer.bsky.social @holgi.bsky.social und ich bei Wrint über Kurzarbeit (featuring @simonjaeger.bsky.social und @mokuhn.bsky.social ) Krypto und Wahlprogramme (und das US Gesundheitssystem). Viel Spaß beim Zuhören! wrint.de/2024/12/21/k...

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Voice at Work" by Jarkko Harju, Simon Jäger, and Benjamin Schoefer. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

Das BMAS plant, die Bezugsdauer des Kurzarbeitergelds (KUG) zu verdoppeln. @jopennekamp.bsky.social nimmt unsere Forschungsergebnisse (mit Brinkmann, @mokuhn.bsky.social, Saidi, Wolter) auf, um Reform und Rolle des KUG in Transformation einzuordnen. @faznet.bsky.social www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt...

submitted 77 days ago • 1 comment

Ein hervorragendes Interview in der @faznet.bsky.social von @jopennekamp.bsky.social mit @dacemoglumit.bsky.social, der heute den Nobelpreis erhält. Spannende Einschätzungen zur Zukunft liberaler Demokratien und zum 🇩🇪 Modell, z.B. zur Mitbestimmung. www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt...

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

I'm honored that @wirtschaftswoche.bsky.social has included me in their list of "Germany’s 30 until 2030". When I first saw the title, I thought they’d gotten my age wrong—turns out it’s not that kind of list! Their initiative highlights optimism and innovation in 🇩🇪! Congrats to all awardees!

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

Hello #EconSky! 📢Excited to share my #JMP 📢 It provides a missing piece to understand how people react to income taxation. Tldr: By changing tax pre-payments governments can - with almost no costs - increase perceived work incentives of secondary earners and reduce the gender gap. Thread below👇🧵

submitted 97 days ago • 2 comments

New from @simonjaeger.bsky.social Christopher Roth, Nina Roussille & Benjamin Schoefer: "Worker Beliefs About Outside Options" Standard models of the labor market assume that workers have accurate beliefs about the differences in wages across firms, but this assumption remains broadly untested.

submitted 101 days ago • 1 comment

Simon Jäger (@simonjaeger.bsky.social), Christopher Roth, Nina Roussille, Benjamin Schoefer (@schoefer.bsky.social) summarise their wonderfully insightful @qjeharvard.bsky.social paper, "Worker Beliefs about Outside Options". microeconomicinsights.org/worker-belie...

submitted 101 days ago • 1 comment

I'm very excited to join the Department of Economics at Princeton University, with a joint appointment in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs! Very grateful to wonderful mentors, colleagues, students + staff @MIT for an incredible time! Looking forward to the next adventure!

submitted 119 days ago • 7 comments

www.nber.org/papers/w31794

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In about an hour, we start the IZA/ECONtribute Workshop on the Economics of Education in Bonn. In this thread, I will try to cover all presented papers. Program and zoom link 👇 conference.iza.org/conference_f...

submitted 499 days ago • 2 comments

Pflichtlektüre für alle jene, die sich für die wissenschaftlichen Beiträge von Claudia Goldin interessieren.

submitted 508 days ago • 0 comments

Riesige Glückwünsche an Claudia Goldin zum diesjährigen Nobelpreis für Wirtschaftswissenschaften! Worum geht es bei ihrer Forschung? Ein paar Eindrücke aus ihrer Forschung zum Arbeitsmarkt (auf deutsch).

submitted 508 days ago • 1 comment

Hi everyone, I am a labor economist and will occasionally post about economics, labor markets, inequality, unions, and all things labor. Looking forward to many interactions!

submitted 512 days ago • 3 comments

Welcome @simonjaeger.bsky.social!

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