🚨Happy to finally see this out in the @ejprjournal.bsky.social (with @leonardocarella.bsky.social)
⁉️ Does growing up when immigration is salient make people vote for parties they agree with on immigration *for the rest of their lives*?
doi.org/10.1017/S147...
Four (!) three-year postdoc positions available at @au.dk: international.au.dk/about/profil...
Join an incredible team & help understand the psychological & political implications of the clash between high-speed society & slow-speed democracy.
Please share! @tboeggild.bsky.social can help with Qs
BJPolS abstract discussing the dynamic between knowledge economy migration and political shifts in Germany, specifically addressing urban versus rural opportunities and its implications on political perspectives and migration trends.
NEW -
Seeking Opportunity in the Knowledge Economy: Moving Places, Moving Politics? - https://cup.org/3LgxVos
"moving to opportunity results in... more left-leaning self-identification, and lower support for far-right parties"
- @valentinaconsiglio.bsky.social & @thmskrr.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
picture with a view on the Danube
New city, new job, new term!
After a wonderful time at the @ipz.bsky.social, I’m very excited to have joined the Department of Government @stawi-univie.bsky.social at the University of Vienna as Assistant Professor.
If you’re in Vienna and up for a coffee, let me know!
This fall, I'll join the University of Oxford as Professor of Social Policy, Inequality & Opportunity. I'll also become the Director of the Economics, Inequality and Opportunity Program at INET Oxford, and will join @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social as a Professorial Fellow.
Just out in @jcms-eu.bsky.social:
What can Karl Polanyi's work on the contentious transformations of modern capitalism (still) tell us about European integration? This article examines this long-debated question by zooming in on the EU's recent efforts at labour market (re-)regulation. [1/5]
Congratulations, Sophia 🥳🎓
New article in Social Policy & Administration, with Kees van Kersbergen:
We explore how firms – often overlooked in debates on AI and social policy – perceive AI and what policy responses they support.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1467...
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📣New publication! Out in Perspectives on Politics
Reassessing the Impact of Local Control: When Smaller Local Governments Permit More Housing
Coauthored w/ @mvinaes.bsky.social
👉 doi.org/10.1017/S153...
We study the effect of a municipal reform in DK:
🏘️ What happens to housing supply? ⤵️ (1/2)
Can government policies moderate political backlash to structural change?
Yes, the effect operates through material benefits and social recognition.
🚨New WP by @retobuergisser.bsky.social, @siljahausermann.bsky.social, @thmskrr.bsky.social and @susanadptavares.bsky.social 🚨
shorturl.at/zFbZE
In an RCT, we treat job seekers in slack occupations with information about the better prospects in other suitable jobs. Effects are large: employment, hours of work and labor income all improve by 5%/6% after 18 months, with limited externalities to other job seekers. docs.iza.org/dp17905.pdf
Remarkable announcement by Austria’s new Finance Minister, @markusmarterbauer.bsky.social, in his first annual budget speech to parliament:
Despite major fiscal consolidation efforts, the budget allocates €50 million annually to expand #JobGuarantee programs for unemployed workers.
🚨 New book alert!
Policy Preparation Inside the European Commission is out with OUP @oxfordacademic.bsky.social
It’s about the behind-the-scenes stage of EU policymaking that shapes everything—yet rarely gets the spotlight: how the Commission prepares its proposals.
Link: doi.org/10.1093/9780...
This article reconciles conflicting views about the political landscape of corporate America with new data on the revealed political preferences of 97,469 corporate directors and executives at 9,005 different U.S. companies.
Happy to share that my paper, "The Political Transformation of Corporate America, 2001-2022," has been conditionally accepted at the American Political Science Review (@apsrjournal.bsky.social)! Updated draft here: bit.ly/3DU4Vj7 #polisky #lawsky #econsky #academicsky
Mathias Bukh Vestergaard examines how parties appeal to the same voters while avoiding the risk of losing support due to ideological overlap. He finds that parties use policy commitments to differentiate themselves and enhance their credibility 👇
💥Postdoc call 💥
Join my @erc.europa.eu project #YOPOW at Aarhus University
🎇 3-y position (possibility of 1-y extension)
❓How societal norms give rise to biased beliefs about political power in youth
🤖 Computational social science (large-scale text & image data)
Deadline May 15: bit.ly/4hIpSeD
How do local expressions of dissent become global? 🌎🪧
In the first paper of my PhD—just accepted in the American Journal of Sociology (!!!)—I show how historical emigration patterns can inadvertently create latent global infrastructures for diffusion.
🔗 tinyurl.com/44s2wkvp
🧵 (1/7)
Active Labor Market Programs get the (relatively) most resourceful into work, while causing the least resourceful to consume more anti-depressants
Great new study with an RCT by @michaelsvarer.bsky.social, @martinbaekgaard.bsky.social, Rosholm and Nielsen.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Hello #EconSky 👋 excited to share my JMP!
❓What are the impacts of offering student finance as a grant or a loan?
In the paper, I...
🎓 Study individual university enrolment, subject choice & career motivations
❗️Explore aggregate outcomes e.g. access to university & the occupational structure
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Thanks for setting this up Linus, would you mind adding me? :)
"Women spend so much more energy being nice to people in the workplace! When will they ever get credit for that?!” This audience question is common in our public talks about research on gender equality in the labor market. Our new paper gives striking evidence on this point. 1/7
@svenschreurs.bsky.social
Fantastic paper by Bisbee and Young You (forthcoming in the Journal of Politics)!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
⏰HOUSING AND LOCAL CONTROL⏰
Less local ctrl should translate into more housing, as the power of NIMBY activists wane.
But in a new paper, Laura Kettel and I show that a reform that diluted local control over land use in Denmark lead to less housing???
osf.io/5adyg/
Ciao Bluesky! 👋 I'm PhDing in political econ at EUI (SPS) interested in (quant) political econ (central banks, taxes, climate, etc.) and cool methods and visualisations to discover latent trends (LLMs are my latest gem). I'm currently a visiting PhD in London (LSE) and Frankfurt (ECB trainee).
