Good article, but blurs the distinction between ESOPs & cooperatives: In both cases workers own their firm, but only cooperatives put workers in control (ESOPs often have voluntary voice mechanisms). ESOP ownership can also be highly dispersed betw. workers. Still, good to see this debate in EU!
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"Employing the unemployed of Marienthal:
Evaluation of a guaranteed job program"
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Useful report from @epi.org on US unionization trends. Interesting to see that US union density actually rose in 2025. Just by 0.1 percentage points, but still, itโs the first time since 2020 that union density has gone up. And even more interesting, 1/
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Participants to the 2nd edition of the Nottingham GEP Labour Workshop, June 2025
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Markets and Mobility: How Employers Structure Economic Opportunity
Intergenerational mobility, measuring the ability to achieve economic success regardless of family background, is a critical reflection of a societyโs commitment to equality of opportunity. Rising income inequality has raised concerns about the potential erosion of upward mobility. While education has traditionally been viewed as the path to mobility, its transformative power is facing challenges in a rapidly evolving job market. This project reorients the focus of intergenerational mobility research by highlighting the labor market as an arena for the reproduction of advantage. It employs a comparative approach, using administrative data from four countries: Sweden, Austria, England, and the United States. It also incorporates evidence from a broader set of nations through cross-national surveys, longitudinal household surveys, labor force surveys, secondary data, and digital trace data. The project employs cutting-edge empirical methods, including quasi- experimental designs, event studies, within-family comparisons, decomposition analyses, counterfactual simulations, and diagnostic checks to rigorously assess the extent of inequalities in the labor market. The research investigates how family background influences the sorting of individuals to employers and workplaces, accounting for education and occupation, and explores variations in career progression within and between employers. It comprehensively catalogues and assesses mechanisms shaping workplace inequality, contributing to the development of social closure theory. Additionally, the project evaluates intervention strategies, encompassing both employer practices and government actions, to promote fair opportunity in the labor market.
JOB! I'm hiring a postdoc for 2 years on my ERC MaMo project.
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I am very much looking forward to the Nottingham Labour Economics workshop this summer!
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Sectoral bargaining in Chile - not sure whether this bill will be passed & important to note that only some labor standards will be sectoral (not wages, afaik), but still an interesting development!
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This is interesting - does this relate to Sylvia Klosins' JMP on dynamic bias in panels?
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Exogenous variation alert
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Something to keep in mind for the upcoming grad worker collective bargaining round at MIT. We should be optimizing over wages AND employment (incl incoming cohorts).
Join us!
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Gerade erschienen - die ๐ช๐ฆ๐-๐๐ฟ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ถ๐๐๐ธ๐ฎ๐บ๐ฝ๐ณ๐ฏ๐ถ๐น๐ฎ๐ป๐ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฐ mit einem Blick auf 2025: Zu verzeichnen ist ein Rรผckgang gegenรผber 2023, doch die Tarifrunden verliefen weiterhin relativ streikintensiv durch Nachwirkungen der Inflationswelle. www.boeckler.de/de/pressemit...
๐ขNina Roussille and I are hiring a full-time predoctoral researcher to work with us at MIT on labor economics research projects.
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The Labor Lab at the Center for Political Economy, Columbia University and Cornell ILR School invite submissions for the Political Economy of Work Junior Scholar Workshop to be held at Columbia University December 5-6, 2025. Participants will receive feedback on their scholarship from a senior scholar in the field, comments from fellow junior scholars, and advice about career development. Confirmed commentators include: Kate Andrias (law); Brishen Rogers (law); Hiba Hafiz (law); Alex Hertel-Fernandez (political science); Suresh Naidu (economics); and Adam Reich (sociology), with more to be added. Who Can Apply? Scholars who write in the field of work and labor, broadly defined, in law, social science (economics, political science, sociology) or history are welcome to apply. Preference will be given to scholars without tenure, including post docs or fellows, but recently tenured scholars are welcome to apply as well. Submissions are also welcome from graduate students or law students interested in academia, as are papers from practitioners, clinicians, and writing faculty. Proposal Requirements Interested participants should submit a one-page abstract with contact information via this form by September 15 at 5pm EDT. Please note: Presented papers must be advanced drafts of scholarly work ready for circulation by November 14, 2025. Key Deadlines September 15, 2025, at 5pm EDT: Deadline for proposal submissions
Political Economy of Work Junior Scholar Workshop to be held at Columbia University December 5-6, 2025.ย
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