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Simon Jäger

@simonjaeger.bsky.social
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Labor Economist | Econ Prof @Princeton jaeger.scholar.princeton.edu

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Princeton Economics @princetonecon.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
@simonjaeger.bsky.social‬'s new paper in AEA estimates the effects of worker voice on productivity, job quality, and separations. A Finnish reform granting workers representation increased labor productivity and reduced involuntary separations. Read more: bit.ly/4fmycBe
Interior view of a modern building with individuals working. A large poster displays information about a published paper titled "Voice at Work" by Simon Jäger, featured in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.
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Simon Jäger @simonjaeger.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
What does consulting do? Lots of strongly held views, very limited data to answer the question. In new ‪‪NBER paper, Gert Bijnens, @schoefer.bsky.social and I shed light on this question using the first economy-wide data on consulting relationships (based on VAT-based B2B data). More info👇
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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Wow, super interesting! "What Does Consulting Do?" by Gert Bijnens, Simon Jäger, and Benjamin Schoefer. "...we find positive effects on labor productivity of 3.6% over five years, driven by modest employment reductions alongside stable or growing revenue." www.nber.org/papers/w34072
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Simon Jäger @simonjaeger.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Excited to join @iabnews.bsky.social as a Research Fellow! IAB is 🇩🇪's leading labor market research institution and a pioneer in making research data accessible. Their work has transformed our understanding of labor markets. Looking forward to contributing to their mission! iab.de/en/fellows/p...
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Professor Simon Jäger, Ph.D. - IAB - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 11/07/2025
#EconSky
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Simon Jäger @simonjaeger.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Very excited that our paper (joint with Jarkko Harju and ‪@schoefer.bsky.social‬) on "Voice at Work" is published in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. We study what happened when workers in Finnish firms got a right to worker voice on the corporate board. 👇
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Simon Jäger @simonjaeger.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Interview in @lemonde.fr about the structural shifts challenging the 🇩🇪 model of industrial relations. If you’re interested, please check the link below. Thanks to @cecileboutelet.bsky.social for the conversation! Follow her for a new perspective on the 🇩🇪 economy. www.lemonde.fr/economie/art...
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Simon Jäger, économiste : « Il faut se débarrasser de l’idée romantique de l’ouvrier de l’industrie qui serait l’avenir du pays »
Le spécialiste germano-américain de l’économie du travail estime que les syndicats, les seules institutions puissantes où les cols bleus sont représentés aujourd’hui, peuvent jouer un rôle important d...
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Simon Jäger @simonjaeger.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Ich freue mich, mit dem hervorragenden Team am @zentrum-neue-sozialpolitik.org als Senior Fellow evidenzbasierte Analysen in anwendungsorientierte Beiträge zur politischen Debatte zu übersetzen. Herzlichen Dank für die Einladung, liebes Zentrum für neue Sozialpolitik!
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Simon Jäger @simonjaeger.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
In der morgigen Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung spreche ich mit Stefanie Diemand über den Koalitionsvertrag und die wirtschafts- und arbeitsmarktpolitischen Herausforderungen der neuen Bundesregierung, u.a. Sondervermögen, Wochenarbeitszeit, Steuerbefreiung für Überstunden und Mindestlohn.
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Simon Jäger @simonjaeger.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Im @zdfde.bsky.social wird heute die Kurzarbeit in Deutschland thematisiert. Im Gespräch mit Valerie Haller habe ich Einschätzungen zur Kurzarbeit im aktuellen Arbeitsmarkt- und Wirtschaftsumfeld diskutiert. Heute Abend im heute journal und hier in Zusammenfassung. www.zdf.de/nachrichten/...
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Kurzarbeit in der Strukturkrise: Fluch oder Segen?
Kurzarbeit hat in der Corona-Pandemie Arbeitsplätze gerettet. Doch in der aktuellen Strukturkrise sehen Experten das Erfolgsmodell kritisch.
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Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Stunning piece of work!
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Simon Jäger @simonjaeger.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
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. 👇
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Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Fascinating new paper by @simonjaeger.bsky.social, Suresh Naidu, and @schoefer.bsky.social! www.nber.org/papers/w33267
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Collective Bargaining, Unions, and the Wage Structure: An International Perspective
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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Alex Busch @alexanderbusch.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
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...
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Collective Bargaining, Unions, and the Wage Structure: An International Perspective
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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Benjamin Schoefer @schoefer.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
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...
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Simon Jäger @simonjaeger.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
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. 👇
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Rudi Bachmann @bachmannrudi.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
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...
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Kurzarbeit, Krypto, Wahlprogramme (Mit Christian Bayer und Rüdiger Bachmann) – WRINT: Wer redet ist nicht tot
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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Voice at Work" by Jarkko Harju, Simon Jäger, and Benjamin Schoefer. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
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Voice at Work
(Forthcoming Article) - We estimate the effects of worker voice on productivity, job quality, and separations. We study the 1991 introduction of a right to worker representation on boards or advisory ...
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Simon Jäger @simonjaeger.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
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...
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Regierung verlängert Anspruch auf Kurzarbeitergeld auf 24 Monate
Die Arbeitslosigkeit steigt, der Arbeitsminister greift zum Kriseninstrument der Pandemie. Aber rettet das Kurzarbeitergeld überhaupt viele Jobs? Forscher sagen: Nein.
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Simon Jäger @simonjaeger.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
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...
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Daron Acemoglu erhält am Dienstag den Wirtschaftsnobelpreis: Ein Interview
Die liberalen Demokratien haben in ihrer jetzigen Verfassung keine Zukunft, sagt Daron Acemoğlu, der heute den Wirtschaftsnobelpreis erhält. Er warnt vor Trump, einem Kryptocrash – und hat für Deutsch...
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Simon Jäger @simonjaeger.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
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!
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Jakob Wegmann @jakobwegmann.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
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👇🧵
To collect income taxes, almost all countries require employers to withhold monthly tax prepayments which are then fully credited against the final income tax liabilities of their employees. Despite being a fundamental component of income taxation systems worldwide, the impact of these withholding taxes on labor supply is poorly understood. We investigate their importance in the context of married couples in Germany where the withholding tax liability can be redistributed between spouses. We exploit a reform that reduced the withholding tax for some married women more than for others, while inducing no differences in income taxes. Using administrative data for the full population of German taxpayers, we estimate an elasticity of labor income with respect to the withholding tax eight years after the reform of 0.14. Additional evidence from a self-conducted survey suggests imperfect understanding of the tax system and limited pooling of resources within the household as the main mechanisms. As the majority of couples shift parts of the withholding tax liability from the husband to the wife, our results suggest that the increased withholding tax liability of married women contributes to their low labor supply. This highlights the need for governments to be aware of the distortion of labor supply incentives when the design of withholding taxes does not match actual income tax incentives.
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Microeconomic Insights @micreconinsights.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
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.
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Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
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...
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Worker Beliefs About Outside Options | Microeconomic Insights
Firms differ substantially in the wages they pay to similar workers. Standard models of the labor market assume that workers have accurate beliefs about the differences in wages across firms, includin...
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Simon Jäger @simonjaeger.bsky.social · 02/11/2024
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!
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Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 25/10/2023
www.nber.org/papers/w31794
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“Compensate the Losers?” Economic Policy and Partisan Realignment in the US
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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Ingo E. Isphording @ingoisphording.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
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...
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Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
Pflichtlektüre für alle jene, die sich für die wissenschaftlichen Beiträge von Claudia Goldin interessieren.
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Simon Jäger @simonjaeger.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
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).
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Simon Jäger @simonjaeger.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
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!
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Johannes Haushofer @johanneshaushofer.com · 03/10/2023
Welcome @simonjaeger.bsky.social!
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