Excited to see how this initiative will shape the future of our students and strengthen academic ties between Lithuania and France!
#VilniusUniversity #QuantitativeEconomics #QE #DoubleDegree #EUCollaboration
3rd-year QE students can now learn from top professors at GATE Lyon-Saint-Etienne, one of France's leading research centers in Economics. They'll build advanced quantitative skills and tackle real-world challenges in economic data science and policy evaluation.
🇱🇹🇫🇷 It took two years to make it happen, but there's no better time to strengthen ties across Europe.
The Quantitative Economics (QE) program at Vilnius University is now a double degree program with the Saint-Etienne School of Economics at Université Jean Monnet!
SaM is back! 🚀 Less than two weeks left to submit your papers—don’t miss out! 📢🔹 #SaM2025 #EconSky #CallForPapers
Join the leading econ conference in the region! 📢
#EconSky #BEC2025
The role of firms in explaining pay differentials is well documented. At the same time, there is growing evidence that market power of employers is substantial and widespread across countries. This column uses detailed Social Security data for Lithuania over two decades to bridge these two lines of evidence. The analysis suggests that wage inequality may partly emerge as a market failure: greater competition in the labour market among firms can lead to lower earnings differentials among workers. It provides suggestive evidence that the 2004 EU accession catalysed labour market competition among Lithuanian firms.
Data from #Lithuania shows that wage #inequality may partly emerge as a market failure: greater #competition in the labour market among firms can lead to lower earnings differentials among workers.
Jose Garcia-Louzao, @ruggieriale.bsky.social
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
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A histogram showing the distribution of own-wage elasticities of employment from 74 published minimum wage research studies, where the median estimate is -0.13.
Updates to the minimum wage own-wage elasticity repository
Two new papers on Germany (Bossler Shank 2023) and Lithuania (Garcia-Louzao and Tarasonis 2023)
economic.github.io/owe/
Looking forward to sharing our findings and contributing to this meaningful project. Let’s connect local data with global knowledge for a better understanding of income trends worldwide! 🌍📊
Since GRID statistics are derived from harmonized administrative records data on earnings histories across countries, I’m particularly excited about how this initiative will position Lithuania within a broader global conversation on these crucial issues.
Together with Jose Garcia-Louzao, we will integrate findings from Lithuanian social security data into this international research network. Our work aims to uncover new insights into income inequality, income dynamics, and income mobility in Lithuania—topics with significant policy implications.
One of the key focuses of my time here will be contributing to the Global Repository on Income Dynamics (GRID), co-directed by Luigi Pistaferri (Stanford), @fatihguvenen.bsky.social (Minnesota), and Giovanni L. Violante (Princeton).
🌟 Thrilled to announce that I have joined the Stanford University Department of Economics as a Visiting Fulbright Scholar for the next six months!
A brief 🧵 about my plans
#Fulbright #Stanford #Economics #IncomeDynamics #GRID #Lithuania
