Abstract. We study how employer concentration affects job design, focusing on schedule flexibility as a non-wage job attribute. Using the full text of 46

Angesichts der gigantischen Haushaltslücken wird vermehrt eine Mehrwertsteuererhöhung gefordert. Doch diese würde die Schieflage bei der Verteilungs- und Steuergerechtigkeit unweigerlich weiter versch...

📢 Internship Opportunity at the OECD (Paris) The OECD Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs (ELS) is looking for an intern to join the Jobs and Income Division. If you are a graduate ...

Comprehensive dataset of local, state, federal, European, mayoral, Landrat, and county election results in Germany at the municipality and constituency (Wahlkreis) level, plus subnational public opini...

(Forthcoming Article) - This paper studies how collective bargaining affects wages and amenities. By merging collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) to linked employer-employee data in Brazil, I combine rich contracted amenities with wage information. I implement a difference-in-difference strategy that exploits a court ruling enforcing CBA continuation (i.e., ultractivity) to estimate the effects of union bargaining power. Strengthening unions raises wages and amenities without reducing employment—increasing retention despite some labor-labor substitution. A revealed preference approach shows that amenities account for 45% of total compensation gains. These findings suggest that collective bargaining can offset monopsony power, but employers retain the right-tomanage workforce composition.

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A two-day interdisciplinary conference on economic and social inequality at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. 10–11 September 2026.

Here’s What Happened to their Restaurant and Retail Jobs.

<p>The fourth Workshop in Labor Economics: Wages, Employment and Inequality (WEI IV) will be organized in Uppsala, Sweden, on September 4 – 5, 2026. The workshop has secured an outstanding lineup of s...

Implementing Local Projections Difference-in-Differences (LP-DiD) estimators - danielegirardi/lpdid

In 2025, 16.5 million workers in the United States were represented by a union—an increase of 463,000 from 2024 and the highest number of unionized workers in the U.S. in 16 years. These 16.5 million ...

The ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin) invites applications for postdoctoral fellow positions in economics. The initial contract is for two years, with the possibility of renewal for up to six year...

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“As a student of both sociology and economics, MIT Sloan was the ideal place for me," says Alex Busch, a PhD student.

We at RFBerlin are seeking a highly skilled and motivated research assistant to provide support for a project on the labor market effects of collective bargaining, led by Christian Dustmann and Jan Kn...

Arbeitskämpfe: 2024 Rückgang gegenüber 2023, doch weiterhin relativ streikintensiv durch Nachwirkungen der Inflationswelle

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