IZA@LISER Summer School in Labor Economics 2026 When: From: MON, 1 JUN 2026, 10:00 AM To: WED, 3 JUN 2026, 5:00 PM Where: In person Remich, Luxembourg
#EconConf #TeachEcon #EconSky #FundSocSci #econ_ra
📢 Call for papers: 1st Annual CEP–IFS Labour Conference
London | 15–16 June 2026
We invite labour economics papers on wages & inequality, firm wage-setting, monopsony, unions, worker mobility & place-based policies.
Submit by 13 Feb 2026.
🔗 Details & submissions: ow.ly/yvGJ50XY3fK
I was always told that one of the central lessons of the Shoah is that legal, juridical regimes can still be immoral. The claim that Anne Frank was in Amsterdam "legally" is false, but more than that, the question "Was Anne Frank an illegal?" is so grossly missing the point of Holocaust remembrance.
⏰ Deadline approaching: 1 February 2026
Submit your paper to the 38th EALE Annual Conference (Barcelona, 31 Aug–2 Sept 2026).
➡️ ub.edu/eale2026/
#EALE2026 #CallForPapers #LabourEconomics
Submit your gender wage gap research, deadline April 3. #EconSky
Come join us this spring 🌸🌸🌸 in DC on April 17th for the Society of Government Economists Annual Conference. All are welcome.
What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?
Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
Canadian Labour Economics Forum (CLEF) Conference submission deadline is coming up on Jan 15! This is also the deadline to apply for the Best Paper Prize. Students or recent grads from Cdn universities and Canadians abroad are eligible to apply for the prize. Details here: clef.uwaterloo.ca/prize/
🚨 Deadline on Sunday:
🚀 4th CESifo Junior Workshop on the Economics of Education 🤩
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New statement from Friends of BLS:
"Some controversy...erupted on Dec. 30 following release of a highly informative Q&A that addressed how [BLS] estimated the Nov. 2025 CPI.
We..find no reason to see the hand of politics anywhere in the Bureau’s CPI work..."
www.friendsofbls.org/updates/2025...
Lasting change requires more than cash—interventions adding information meetings and home visits produce real, sustained gains for mothers and children, from Richard Akresh, Damien de Walque, Harounan Kazianga, and Abigail Stocker www.nber.org/papers/w34578
One last (sobering) update on the #EconJobMarket before the winter holidays; data as of 2025-12-14.
In terms of # of job listings on Job Openings for Economists (JOE), this is the worst job mkt in recent yrs for PhD Economists. # jobs down 20% from last yr, even 18.9% lower than during COVID (2020).
In today's JMP blog, @jiaweilyu.bsky.social studies impact of affirmative action for men in China's civil service. Women outperform men in the entry exam, so quotas were introduced to balance gender. Fewer women were hired, quality declined, & tax collected fell. blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...?
This piece I wrote for @theconversation.com argues that the Summers/Epstein debacle reflects what the data show: systemic bias in the economics profession’s practices and culture. That bias influences who succeeds and who is sidelined. #EconSky theconversation.com/larry-summer...
The Federal Trade Commission is hiring PhD Economists (very late, because shutdown)!
Please repost/quote so JMCs can see.
- no experience: www.usajobs.gov/job/851497400
- some experience: www.usajobs.gov/job/851497300
- much experience: www.usajobs.gov/job/851496000
#Economics #EconSky
The AEA has imposed a lifetime ban on Lawrence H. Summers’ membership and participation in AEA activities. See the full statement here. www.aeaweb.org/news/aea-sta...
Beyond ambitious research agendas and impressive productivity, they are also are great teachers and will make wonderful colleagues, so if you're on a hiring committee I hope you'll give them a close look!
Sanghee Mun examines how immigration policy affects female labor force participation, showing with theory and evidence how Secure Communities negatively affected high-achieving women. She has other great papers in health and education.
sanghee727.github.io
Sunny Liu's JMP asks how parental displacement affects kids' college outcomes in the US, finding negative effects on attainment but no effect on choice of major. She links LEHD, tax, and ACS survey data, and has many other great papers.
sites.google.com/view/sunny-l...
I have several fantastic students on the academic market this year. I'm going to make a little thread:
CSWEP strongly condemns Larry Summers’ behavior as revealed in the email correspondence with the late Jeffrey Epstein. While abuse of power in the economics profession is not new, rarely has the intent behind such abuse been so clearly stated.
1/ Egalitarianism should begin at home. I link to this article by @bencasselman.bsky.social in light of the communications between Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein that have just been released. The released emails and the fact of friendship are vile.
www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...
My group at the University of Illinois is hiring a tenure-track applied economist.
We're especially interested in environmental/public reduced-form rookies with research that complements our group.
Tell your students to apply! #EconSky
www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
We're hiring at the econ department at Copenhagen Business School.
Please come work with my wunderful colleagues and/or me on a tenure-track assistant professorship. All fields considered.
Apply through EJM.
econjobmarket.org/positions/11...
The Department of Economics at @stockholm-uni.bsky.social has two junior positions open. Join us in Stockholm: lots of economists, a beuatiful city, and great data! econjobmarket.org/positions/11...
Join us!
@iwh-halle.bsky.social and @uni-magdeburg.de are hiring an AP in Labor Economics!
Focus: Effects of AI and new technologies on workers & firms.
No German required.
Enjoy an outstanding research environment in Magdeburg & Halle – come see for yourself!
🔗 Full ad: tinyurl.com/28ko5wty
🚨 2-Year Postdocs in Dev Econ at Uni Copenhagen 🚨
Come work on some exciting experimental projects😀!
Dedicated time for your own research.
Reach out to hear more!
** PLEASE REPOST **🙏
Application deadline 🗓️: Nov 11
👉http://bit.ly/4q2Uehf
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The Friends of BLS steering committee is sponsoring a member webinar noon to 1pm ET Thurs, Oct 23.
We aim to build nonpartisan support for a strong BLS & need your perspectives & energy.
Former Commissioners @ericagroshen.bsky.social, William Beach, & @erikamcentarfer.bsky.social will...
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