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Aug 10, 2022

I am thrilled to have been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure at UC Berkeley. I am deeply grateful to the fantastic coauthors, mentors, research assistants, advisors, students, colleagues, editors, and reviewers I am lucky to have had.I'll try my best to pay it forward.

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Harvard Inequality | HKS Stone Program

@InequalityHKS

Jan 17

Next week the Stone Inequality & Social Policy Seminar returns for another semester at HKS. Join us for upcoming talks featuring

, and others.

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The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat)

Jan 16

I'm thrilled that Oren Ziv

@zivoren

's and my paper is now on REStat's website. In Productivity, Place, and Plants Oren and I use alliterations and Oxford commas to link cross-city productivity differences not to the places as such, but to the plants that happen to operate there.

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@restatjournal

Jan 16

"New fact: 75% of the differences in productivity across cities reflects plant-level idiosyncrasies." Just Accepted new paper by Benjamin Schoefer @Schoefer_B and Oren Ziv @zivoren zcu.io/cMQO

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The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat)

@restatjournal

Jan 16

"New fact: 75% of the differences in productivity across cities reflects plant-level idiosyncrasies." Just Accepted new paper by Benjamin Schoefer

Productivity, Place, and Plants

and Oren Ziv

@zivoren

direct.mit.edu

Abstract. Why do cities differ so much in productivity? A long literature has sought out systematic sources, such as inherent productivity advantages, market access, agglomeration forces, or sorting....

ILR Review

@ILRReview

Jan 12

What Does Codetermination Do?

, &

provide an overview of worker rep. in firms’ governance & management, offer evidence for the effects of codetermination reforms, & explanations for their limited impact.

@SAGEJournals

doi.org/10.1177/001979

Our paper (

) on paying outsourced workers with evidence from 🇦🇷 in the Jan 2023 issue of

@restatjournal

- we find that high-wage firms pay temp workers ~50% of the premium paid to regular workers. 🧑‍💼👷‍♂️👇

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Thank you so much

for the great🧵 on my Job Market Paper! I you are interested in working time regulations, gender inequality and labor reallocation, see below! ⬇️

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Nov 10, 2022

What would happen if we prohibited part-time jobs? @PaulineCarry, a labor and macroeconomist on the market, paulinecarry.com gives the answer in her fantastic JMP: drive.google.com/file/d/1xz-Mer She studies a 2014 reform in France that required jobs to offer at least 24h/week.

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Nov 10, 2022

The estimated model, which also replicates the firm-level DiD estimates and the impacts of the reform in the data, uncovers the aggregate effects, including the net effects of cross-firm reallocation and welfare. Outstanding link b/w data and economics. Much more in the paper!

Pauline is both a labor and macroeconomist, so she asks: what are the aggregate effects? The DiD design can't answer those Qs. (It's in the year FEs!). Pauline constructs *and estimates* a rich and *realistic* search and matching model of the labor market, incl firm and job het.

Who drives this effect? Who gains or loses? Women -- who made up the lion's share of the part-time jobs pre-reform -- see their jobs and hours reduced most in the aggregate and at the firm level. Pauline puts it best: “Female workers were replaced by full-time male workers.”

To estimate causal effects, Pauline implements a firm-level DiD, by pre-reform share of low hours. (This intuitive heterogeneity is microfounded the model too!) In response to the reform, the treated firms cut low-hours jobs-but also overall jobs, while increasing average hours!

Pauline's excellent empirical work starts by documenting that the reform had strong bite: French firms sharply cut the jobs offering low hours, shifting to jobs with at least 24 hours per week.

Roadmap for Pauline's JMP: 1) compelling reduced form, DiD, identification of the policy's causal effects 2) a rich and realistic search and matching model 3) a skillful structural estimation of the model 4) an insightful quantitative assessment of the reform,incl welfare effects

What would happen if we prohibited part-time jobs?

@PaulineCarry

, a labor and macroeconomist on the market, paulinecarry.com gives the answer in her fantastic JMP: drive.google.com/file/d/1xz-Mer She studies a 2014 reform in France that required jobs to offer at least 24h/week.

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See also Yuriy's

summary thread below:

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Yuriy Gorodnichenko

@YGorodnichenko

To understand #Ukraine and why

fights so hard, you need to understand

history and #Holodomor (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor). Vita Yaremko @uvyriy weighs on the long-term economic effects of that horrible Soviet policy. Read her great job market paper: tinyurl.com/5xe3c9fm

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Nov 10, 2022

But why such persistence? Vita empirically supports her hypothesis:the associated campaign against capitalist values, by blaming and persecuting "kulaks"(entrepreneurial capitalists), still depresses the spirit of capitalism, trust, entrepreneurship in blacklisted villages today.

Vita then documents her main finding: economic activity in post-1991 Ukraine remained depressed exactly in those villages that were - for a brief period of time and due to the transitory weather shocks - subject to Soviet repressive economic policies in the form of blacklisting.

With the instrument in hand, Vita then estimates long-run effects in present-day villages -- for which output information is of course not available! Vita solves this problem by constructing (output-equivalents of) nightlight intensity from satellite images in post-1991 Ukraine.

To obtain quasi-random variation in village-level blacklisting, Vita exploits the agricultural-output link with blacklisting, and comes up with a brilliant instrument: weather shock -- using frontier methods (Lasso,...) to avoid spurious first stage relationships.

To study this question, Vita compiles and georeferences the list of blacklisting *villages* (!) and links them to present-day locations. Blacklisting restricted trade and other economic activity, punishing rural communities for failure to meet agricultural output targets.

How do transitory repressive econ policies affect long-run dev?

@berkeleyecon

's Vitaliia Yaremko

@uvyriy

sites.google.com/view/vyaremko 's fantastic JMP tinyurl.com/5xe3c9fm shows: quasi-random"blacklisting"of areas by Soviet authorities in 1930s Ukraine still depresses output today.

sites.google.com

Vitaliia Yaremko

Vitaliia (Vita) Yaremko

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Yuriy Gorodnichenko

@YGorodnichenko

To understand #Ukraine and why 🇺🇦fights so hard, you need to understand 🇺🇦 history and #Holodomor (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor). Vita Yaremko

@uvyriy

weighs on the long-term economic effects of that horrible Soviet policy. Read her great job market paper: tinyurl.com/5xe3c9fm

en.wikipedia.org

Holodomor - Wikipedia

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"Codetermination and Power in the Workplace" (

Journal of Law and Political Economy

, I) is printed in an exciting special issue in the Journal of Law and Political Economy. The issue is interdisciplinary, incl a preface by Elizabeth Anderson. Thanks,

@LarryMishel

, for putting this together!

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@TheJLPE

What are the consequences of involving workers in workplace decision-making? See the comprehensive answer to this question by @simon_jaeger, @shakked_noy, and @Schoefer_B in the latest special issue of #TheJLPE with @EconomicPolicy: escholarship.org/uc/item/93d7g9

How does codetermination—entitling workers to participate in firm governance, either through membership on company boards or the formation of works councils—affect worker welfare and corporate decision-making? We critically discuss the history and contemporary operation of European codetermination arrangements and review empirical evidence on their effects on firms and workers. Our review suggests that these arrangements are unlikely to significantly shift power in the workplace, but may mildly improve worker welfare and firm performance, in part by boosting information-sharing and cooperation and in part by slightly increasing worker influence.

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Our review of the "German Model of Industrial Relations" is now in the fall 2022 JEP

and I learned a lot along the way. I look fwd to reading the full labor market institutions symposium, and all the other papers! aeaweb.org/articles?id=10

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AEA Journals

The Fall 2022 issue of the Journal of Economic Perspectives (36, 4) is now available online at aeaweb.org/issues/701.

Anna Stansbury

@annastansbury

🤩Must-read symposium on labor market institutions in the new JEP! - Future of the US labor movement -

@snaidunl

- Facts about wage setting & collective bargaining - Bhuller, Moene, Mogstad & Vestad - German model of industrial relations -

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The Fall 2022 issue of the Journal of Economic Perspectives (36, 4) is now available online at aeaweb.org/issues/701.

AEA Journals

Journal of Economic Perspectives

The Fall 2022 issue of the Journal of Economic Perspectives (36, 4) is now available online at aeaweb.org/issues/701.

aeaweb.org

Vol. 36 No. 4 Fall 2022

Journal of Law and Political Economy

@TheJLPE

What are the consequences of involving workers in workplace decision-making? See the comprehensive answer to this question by

, and

: escholarship.org/uc/item/93d7g9

in the latest special issue of #TheJLPE with

@EconomicPolicy

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Simon Jäger

Forscher: Mindestlohn vernichtet kaum Beschäftigung

Oct 1, 2022

Der Mindestlohn steigt heute auf 12 EUR. Hier versuche ich eine Einordnung, auch zu Tarifbindung, Fachkräftemangel, Kurzarbeit, und evidenzbasierter Politik. Vielen Dank an Dietrich Creutzburg und

@JoPennekamp

für das gute Gespräch!

@faznet

@FAZ_Wirtschaft

faz.net

Der Mindestlohn steigt nun auf 12 Euro. Simon Jäger, der neue Chef des Instituts zur Zukunft der Arbeit, erklärt, warum er das für richtig hält – und der Arbeitskräftemangel gar kein so großes...

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Sep 1, 2022

Have a fantastic first day at IZA,

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First day of school today for me! Very excited for my official start @iza_bonn today! Looking forward to working with the fantastic people here, in our network, and beyond!

Our paper (with

) on 🇩🇪 model of industrial relations 👩‍🏭👷‍♂️🏭🛠👨‍✈️🧑‍💼 out as

@nberpubs

working paper - coming out in

JEP in the fall.. 👇

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NBER

@nberpubs

Aug 26, 2022

An overview of the German model of industrial relations, with a focus on sectoral collective bargaining and firm-level codetermination, from @simon_jaeger, Shakked Noy, and @Schoefer_B nber.org/papers/w30377

NBER

@nberpubs

Aug 26, 2022

An overview of the German model of industrial relations, with a focus on sectoral collective bargaining and firm-level codetermination, from

, Shakked Noy, and

nber.org/papers/w30377

The German Model of Industrial Relations: Balancing Flexibility and Collective Action

🇩🇪 New paper by

and

for

The German Model of Industrial Relations: Balancing Flexibility and Collective Action nber.org/papers/w30377 1/4

nber.org

And of course I am deeply grateful also to the amazing and indefatigable administrators

is lucky to have!

Eine fantastische Besetzung: Meine Berkeley-Kollegin Ulrike Malmendier

@umalmend

wird Mitglied im Sachverständigenrat zur Begutachtung der gesamtwirtschaftlichen Entwicklung--bleibt uns aber zum Glück in Berkeley erhalten. Herzlichen Glückwunsch, Ulrike!

handelsblatt.com

Sachverständigenrat: Ulrike Malmendier und Martin Werding werden neue Wirtschaftsweise

Monatelang fehlten dem wichtigsten ökonomischen Beratergremium in Deutschland zwei Mitglieder. Jetzt steht fest, wer die Positionen besetzen soll.

ILR Review

@ILRReview

Aug 5, 2022

What Does Codetermination Do?

, &

provide an overview of worker rep. in firms’ governance & management, offer evidence for the effects of codetermination reforms, & explanations for their limited impact.

@SAGEJournals

doi.org/10.1177/001979

Leo Kaas

@KaasLeo

The Review of Economic Studies

Great paper on the (in)efficiency of job separations and wage rigidity.👇

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@RevEconStudies

In ``Marginal Jobs and Job Surplus,'' @simon_jaeger, @Schoefer_B and Zweimüller, present a test of the efficiency of separation using unemployment insurance reforms in Austria. restud.com/paper/marginal

The Review of Economic Studies

@RevEconStudies

In ``Marginal Jobs and Job Surplus,''

and Zweimüller, present a test of the efficiency of separation using unemployment insurance reforms in Austria. restud.com/paper/marginal

Now on RESTUD.com: "Marginal Jobs and Job Surplus: A Test of the Efficiency of Separations" w/

The Review of Economic Studies

& Josef Zweimüller restud.com/wp-content/upl Thanks a lot to the individuals-esp RAs!-and audiences from whom it benefited so much (see acknowledgements below)!

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