🎉Thrilled to announce that I've successfully defended my dissertation, Essays on Management Opposition and Unionization! Huge thanks to my amazing committee - Menusch Khadjavi,@JRuhose, and @friedr_j, as well as @natewilmers for the external evaluation. #PhDone

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Note also that a quarter of first-gen and/or low-income respondents explicitly said that the bias or negative perceptions of others directly affected their career progression.

In our research on socioeconomic background in academia, we ran a survey. Over 2,000 faculty members responded (thanks if you were one!) Social & cultural capital showed up time and again as key issues. A few findings you might be interested in...🧵

The Econ Job Market is an emotional rollercoaster. But nothing lifts your mood like realizing your master’s thesis is cited in the Handbook of Labor Economics. 😭 Castro, R., Lange, F., & Poschke, M. (2025). Labor force transitions. Handbook of Labor Economics, 6, 819-881.

I don’t agree with lots in this article, but do agree it’s important to highlight that minimum wages can affect other aspects of job quality. w/ Michael Davies and @rjisungpark, I find higher minimum wages increase workplace injuries, likely via work intensification.

In her JMP titled, "How Men and Women Respond to Failure: Evidence from Chess Tournaments," she finds that men react to failure with riskier, less accurate play and are more likely to quit in the short run, while women stay resilient, but no significant difference in the long run

Meet today’s featured JMC in our 2025 Econ Job Market Vlog series: Julia Engel (@Julia_F_Engel @kieluni), whose research focuses on labour and behavioural economics. 🎥 Check out her JMP video to learn more about her work: https://t.co/s2R1kR2NP7 #econtwitter #econjobmarket

Nina and I are hiring a full time predoc starting summer 2026! Apply below.

Call for Papers – 38th EALE Annual Conference, Barcelona, Spain, 31 August - 2 September 2026. We invite all labour economists to submit papers for presentation at the conference. Link to CfP and submission portal: https://t.co/SLk7k2R6lt Deadline: 1-02-2026

Application review: Response within 24h: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Greeted with “Moin”: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ No H1B sponsorship: ⭐️ Would apply again. On the bright side, when others proceed similar, at least the response rate to my applications is going up compared to two years ago. 🙃

Following my annual tradition: the Nobel puts a spotlight on an idea or field of work that was developed by many scholars. 1-3 people are picked to represent it, but there are another 10-20 people without whose work the Nobel would not have gone to this field. So, without taking

Many thanks to the Association for Socioeconomic Education and Research for this honor! 🙏

Few things make an interdisciplinary social scientist happier than recognition from an interdisciplinary committee. My dissertation received the Elinor-Ostrom Prize for Socioeconomic Education and Research.🏆 #GSÖBW

The best part of economic research is knowing a secret about the world that sociologist and political economists already knew a long time ago.

Ich habe jetzt noch eine Ankündigung: ab Januar bin ich für ein halbes Jahr (mit Familie) in Berlin. Sabbatical. Freue mich schon riesig. Hoffe dabei, alte Bekanntschaften zu vertiefen und neue zu machen. Komme auch gerne auf ein Seminar vorbei in D, zu Podiumsdiskussionen, etc.

Wir subventionieren bislang die Frühverrentung („Rente mit 63“). Weil das aber nicht in die Zeit passt, subventionieren wir jetzt noch zusätzlich längeres Arbeiten mit der #Aktivrente. So geht doch keine Reformpolitik, das ist der teuerste Weg, es allen irgendwie Recht zu machen.

📢@NinaRoussille and I are hiring a full-time predoctoral researcher to work with us at MIT on labor economics research projects. IMPORTANT: this vacancy is open right now, so we are particularly interested in people who could start soon. Link to apply in next tweet!

Announced my UCL visit… 2 minutes later a union demo marched past my office. I swear I had nothing to do with it 😂

Thanks a lot for hosting @AlexanderBryson. If anyone is in London and up for a coffee or a pint, let me know! ☕🍺

I am excited to spend this Fall in London at @UCLSocRes. I already had the chance to provide first insights into Captured by Conflict. I love this place! They have a monthly coffee RCT, randomly pairing people up for chats. Worse places to be for a coffee loving experimentalist.