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Lukas Lehner @lukaslehner.bsky.social · 22h

The full #EFIP @econfip.bsky.social podcast with Suresh Naidu and Ralph Ranalli is now available online. 2/2 Podcast: inclusive-prosperity.simplecast.com/episodes/ubi... Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/u... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0RSb... YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNP7...

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UBI and guaranteed job programs show promise—especially with AI looming | Economics for Inclusive Prosperity

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Lukas Lehner @lukaslehner.bsky.social · 22h

Recent #BasicIncome #UBI and #JobGuarantee trials #JG show promise: both provide a buffer between people and abject poverty, but also level the playing field with employers, allowing workers to opt out of bad jobs and working conditions that companies would otherwise have no pressure to improve. 1/2

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Lukas Lehner @lukaslehner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In the @econfip.bsky.social podcast, I discussed with Suresh Naidu and Ralph Ranalli what we can learn from recent pilots: www.youtube.com/shorts/gtt7p... 2/2

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UBI or guaranteed jobs? "Both," says economist Lukas Lehner

YouTube video by Economics for Inclusive Prosperity

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Lukas Lehner @lukaslehner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Universal basic income (#UBI) and job guarantee (#JG) programs are often pitted against one another but in reality they're actually very complementary and offer similar benefits to different people at difference stages of their lives, while leveling the playing field in the labor market. 1/2

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Economics for Inclusive Prosperity @econfip.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Economist Lukas Lehner says research shows that universal basic income and job guarantee programs, often pitted against one another, actually work well together. Catch Lehner on the Economics for Inclusive Prosperity podcast Wednesday with co-host Suresh Naidu. #EFIP youtube.com/shorts/gtt7p...

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UBI or guaranteed jobs? "Both," says economist Lukas Lehner

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Lukas Lehner @lukaslehner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Künstliche Intelligenz verändert die Tätigkeiten in vielen Berufen, weg von der Produktion hin zur Supervision. Gute Ausbildungen, wie ein Uni-Abschluss, bleiben aber wichtig für gute Chancen am Arbeitsmarkt. Darüber habe ich mit der @kleinezeitung.at gesprochen.

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Economics for Inclusive Prosperity @econfip.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Job alert! (courtesy of EFIP member Lukas Lehner). #jobalert #economics #EFIP

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Lukas Lehner @lukaslehner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It’s usually CV & Cover letter for faculty positions in the UK. The details should be specified on the application portal.

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Lukas Lehner @lukaslehner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🚨 We are hiring 🚨 I have joined the Quantitative Social Science group at @sriucl.bsky.social this month and am happy to answer questions to interested applicants. Feel free to reach out.

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Lukas Lehner @lukaslehner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Labor market power comes from two sides: employers' buyer power and workers' power. Wages suffer most where employers dominate and workers are unorganized. Strong unions counteract but also suffer from employer power. Nice summary by @inetoxford.bsky.social of our work on #Walmart.

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Lukas Lehner @lukaslehner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I remember how inspired I felt in 2020 when Economics for Inclusive Prosperity @econfip.bsky.social was launched and I had just started my PhD. I wouldn't have imagined being on their podcast a couple of years later with Suresh Naidu. Watch out for the episode on #JobGuarantee and #BasicIncome.

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Economics for Inclusive Prosperity @econfip.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Economist and EFIP member Lukas Lehner says inequality must be urgently made a priority at the international level. Look for an upcoming episode with Lukas on the Economics for Inclusive Prosperity podcast. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

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Economics for Inclusive Prosperity

Business Podcast · Updated Biweekly · We need an alternative vision of economics to replace failed neoliberalism and rising economic nationalism. In a world facing record inequality, climate peril, an...

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Lukas Lehner @lukaslehner.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Extreme inequality and poverty are defining problems of our time. That's why it needs an International Panel on Inequality (IPI) linked to the UN secretariat. See here for the coverage on the open letter before the UN general assembly: www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

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Global leaders urged to join initiative to fight extreme inequality

More than 1,500 academics and economists sign letter, calling growing gap between richest and poorest ‘a policy choice that can be reversed’

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Yonatan Berman @yonatanberman.com · 15/09/2026

Happy to see our paper on dividend tax reforms out in Fiscal Studies (@theifs.bsky.social)! On a conceptual note, dividend tax is unusual among widely used taxes: it falls heavily on the top 1% (and barely at all on the bottom 90%), while still having the potential to raise substantial revenue 1/2

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Lukas Lehner @lukaslehner.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Unusual job this weekend: filming about the #JobGuarantee at UCL in the same location featured in Christopher Nolan’s #Inception. 🎬

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Next at the @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Atkinson Conference: @janetgornick.bsky.social keynote on cross-national inequality data and the history of @lisdata.bsky.social.

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Lukas Lehner @lukaslehner.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Nice to be back in Oxford for the inaugural #AtkinsonInequalityConference at @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social and @dspi-oxford.bsky.social. Congrats @zparolin.bsky.social for putting this together. atkinsonconference.github.io

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Lukas Lehner @lukaslehner.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Glad to see our study on Walmart's consequences for poverty and food hardship appear alongside a number of exciting studies in the recent Issue of #LabourEconomics Special Issue: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... Our article: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Lukas Lehner @lukaslehner.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Thanks, Per! Very excited to join you and colleagues at @sriucl.bsky.social!

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Lukas Lehner @lukaslehner.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Danke dir Gabriel! Unsere Treffen in Edinburgh werden wir zukünftig in anderen Städten wiederholen :)

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Lukas Lehner @lukaslehner.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Thank you, Burak! I am excited to join and work with you and colleagues in QSS!

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Lukas Lehner @lukaslehner.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Huge thanks to my colleagues at the University of Edinburgh for the past two years. I couldn’t have asked for a better place to learn and grow in my first faculty position. Very grateful, and excited for what’s next. Also: let me know if you're in London and would like to meet up.

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Lukas Lehner @lukaslehner.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Excited to join University College London as Assistant Professor in Economics and Social Policy. @sriucl.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk

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Lukas Lehner @lukaslehner.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Akademiker:innen haben weiterhin ein vergleichsweise geringes Arbeitslosigkeitsrisiko, wir brauchen aber ein stärker disaggregiertes Monitoring nach Ausbildungs- und Studienrichtungen. 2/2 Artikel: kurier.at/wirtschaft/k...

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Trotz Master kein Job: Das bittere Erwachen junger Akademiker

Studiert, qualifiziert – und trotzdem ohne Job: Der akademische Abschluss ist für viele Junge längst keine Jobgarantie mehr. Was jetzt?

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Lukas Lehner @lukaslehner.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Junge Absolvent:innen berichten immer wieder von Schwierigkeiten beim Berufseinstieg. Im Gespräch mit @kurier.at (Roxanna Schmit) ordne ich ein, was wir dazu wissen und wo die blinden Flecken liegen 👇1/2

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Lukas Lehner @lukaslehner.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Filmisches Kurzportrait eines frühen Vorläufers der #Jobgarantie #Marienthal: Mit der #Aktion8000 hat der damalige Sozialminister Alfred Dallinger in den frühen 1980ern die "experimentelle Arbeitsmarktpolitik" in Österreich vorangetrieben. www.filmarchiv.at/de/filmarchi...

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Film: »Aktion 8000«: Kampf gegen die Arbeitslosigkeit

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Lukas Lehner @lukaslehner.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Alles Gute und viel Kraft für die nächsten Monate!

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Thomas Kurer @thmskrr.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

🚨We are hiring a two-year postdoctoral researcher (80%) at the University of Zurich within the new Horizon Europe project WELFAIR on the political implications of technological change, demographic ageing and rising inequality. The full job ad is here: tinyurl.com/3b6ddm25 Apply by August 9, 2026.

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Lukas Lehner @lukaslehner.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Long-term unemployment is a policy choice, not an individual failing. Evidence from the #Marienthal #JobGuarantee shows we can end it, and at a cost public budgets can afford. I am glad to see my work in this area recognized by the #WileyResearchHeroes Prize, in the Impact Beyond Academia category.

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Lukas Lehner @lukaslehner.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Paper: linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0927537126000795

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Lukas Lehner @lukaslehner.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

#Walmart #Supercenter openings are associated with a 2.2 percentage point (18%) rise in #poverty, and the increase persists for at least a decade. Our article is now published in #LabourEconomics, with @zparolin.bsky.social, Clemente Pignatti & Rafael Pintro-Schmitt.

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Lukas Lehner @lukaslehner.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

#BasicIncome and #JobGuarantee are often pitted against each other. In our @econfip.bsky.social brief with @maxkasy.bsky.social, we argue they can be complements: Cash gives autonomy & security; Guaranteed jobs add latent benefits of work that cash alone doesn't deliver econfip.org/wp-content/u...

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Lukas Lehner @lukaslehner.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The American Sociological Review issue with our paper on labor unions and Walmart's buyer power, with @joshuachoper.bsky.social and @zparolin.bsky.social, is now out alongside several other articles that are worth checking out: journals.sagepub.com/toc/asra/91/3

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American Sociological Review - Volume 91, Number 3

Table of contents for American Sociological Review, 91, 3

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Lukas Lehner @lukaslehner.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Heute diskutieren wir konkrete Möglichkeiten zur Umsetzung des Rechts auf Arbeit im Rahmen der #Marienthal #Jobgarantie und deren Übertragbarkeit auf Deutschland bei der G.I.B. – Gestaltung, Innovation und Beratung in der Arbeits- und Sozialpolitik GmbH in Nordrhein-Westfalen.

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Lukas Lehner @lukaslehner.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

#Marienthal wurde 1933 zum Synonym für die Zerstörungskraft von #Arbeitslosigkeit. Nun hat die Gemeinde gezeigt, dass eine #Jobgarantie funktioniert. Für @surplusmagazin.de beleuchten @maxkasy.bsky.social & ich die Ergebnisse: Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit abgeschafft, höhere Einkommen, besseres Leben.

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Lukas Lehner @lukaslehner.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

What I am particularly excited about is my methodological toy project: We provide a template and replication package for single-case studies in cross-national comparative research: reproducible, easy to update and adjustable to other countries and periods: doi.org/10.17605/OSF...

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Join us in Vienna to discuss inequality, economic mobility & labor markets! With @franziskadbacher.bsky.social and @izmartinez86.bsky.social I'm stoked to announce this workshop, keynotes by @emilynix100.bsky.social and @natewilmers.bsky.social. Nov 19-20, submit by June 30: www.wu.ac.at/ineq/ws26

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Lukas Lehner @lukaslehner.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

New paper with @philiprathgeb.bsky.social in Journal of European Social Policy: #SocialInsurance is blamed for entrenching insider-outsider divides & weakening redistribution. Drawing on #Austria, we show it can be more solidaristic and resilient than means-tested benefits. doi.org/10.1177/0958...

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