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Benjamin Schoefer

@Schoefer_B

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Economics professor at UC Berkeley. 🇺🇸🇪🇺🇩🇪 https://t.co/W7yyfR1fuq

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Benjamin Schoefer

@Schoefer_B

20 days

Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln & ich im Wirtschaftsdienst @Zeitschrift_WD: "Dynamik statt Stillstand: Arbeitsmarktinstitutionen als Schlüssel für Wachstum" Wie könnte "Dynamisierung" des Arbeitsmarkts Europas Wachstums förden? PDF https://t.co/9UbKKZckJQ Web https://t.co/YJNF2Dynnh

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ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin

@RF_Berlin

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What happens when firms set wages outside of national agreements? "The Winners and Losers from Collective Bargaining Decentralization", by Christian Dustmann, @c_giannetto, @l_incoronato, @chiaralac, Vincenzo Pezone, @raffaelesaggio, and @Schoefer_B.

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Simon Jäger

@simon_jaeger

2 months

📢 Come work with us - we are hiring! @Princeton Industrial Relations Section is hiring Senior Research Specialists! Work directly with faculty, dive into labor economics research, and prep for grad school. Apply 👉 https://t.co/AOEc7kvPS9 Please spread the word! @econ_ra

irs.princeton.edu

We have opened our search for predoctoral research positions starting July 6, 2026 to assist faculty members in all aspects of their research.For more information, register for a Zoom info session...

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ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin

@RF_Berlin

2 months

We are delighted to conclude the RFBerlin Conference on Worker Co-Determination and Governance with a keynote lecture on “Eurosclerosis at 40: Labor Market Institutions, Dynamism, and European Competitiveness” by @Schoefer_B.

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2 months

8/10 What worries me is that Europe lagged badly in adopting information technology (ICT). As Benjamin Schoefer (2025) argued in Sintra, rigid labor markets and high failure costs discouraged firms from disruptive tech. https://t.co/6DxcHezU0K

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Núcleo Milenio LM2C2

@Lm2c2millenium

3 months

We’re proud to host Benjamin Schoefer, Professor at UC Berkeley and expert in unemployment, labor market institutions, and policy reform. His work has informed labor policy in the US and Europe.

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Benjamin Schoefer

@Schoefer_B

3 months

Vielen Dank, @alexwulfers @FAZ_NET, für den tollen Artikel in der gestrigen FAS zu unserem neuen empirischen Papier zum Thema Unternehmensberatung! Artikel: https://t.co/xPzmVcZo7E Link zum Paper: https://t.co/wVFNyRvG1X

Simon Jäger

@simon_jaeger

3 months

Toni Erdmann und Admin-Daten? Die @faznet bringt's zusammen! @alexwulfers zu unserem neuen Forschungspapier "What Does Consulting Do?" mit @bijneman und @Schoefer_B, indem wir uns mit belgischen Daten anschauen, welche Firmen Consultants nutzen und was passiert, wenn sie das tun

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Benjamin Schoefer

@Schoefer_B

3 months

Thanks to great feedback, Matthias Mertens and I have a new version online now of "From Labor to Intermediates: Firm Growth, Input Substitution, and Monopsony" Link to new version: https://t.co/I7vWeTYBqo

Benjamin Schoefer

@Schoefer_B

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Excited to share a new paper w/ Matthias Mertens: From Labor to Intermediates: Firm Growth, Input Substitution, and Monopsony We document, dissect, understand, draw consequences of a new stylized fact about firm growth: the shift from labor to intermediate inputs. Summary:

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Simon Jäger

@simon_jaeger

3 months

Toni Erdmann und Admin-Daten? Die @faznet bringt's zusammen! @alexwulfers zu unserem neuen Forschungspapier "What Does Consulting Do?" mit @bijneman und @Schoefer_B, indem wir uns mit belgischen Daten anschauen, welche Firmen Consultants nutzen und was passiert, wenn sie das tun

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Benjamin Schoefer

@Schoefer_B

3 months

RT @MicheTiraboschi: L’opting out dalla contrattazione collettiva centralizzata: il caso italiano. Interessante studio di @C_Dustmann, @Sc…

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Jacopo Sala

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3 months

Sul @bollettinoADAPT una mia sintesi in italiano del nuovo interessantissimo studio di C. Dustmann, @c_giannetto, @l_incoronato, @chiaralac, V. Pezone, @raffaelesaggio e @Schoefer_B sugli effetti dell'opt-out dal sistema centralizzato di contrattazione (⬇️) https://t.co/8JHZk0mtSk

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Benjamin Schoefer

@Schoefer_B

3 months

Thanks!! Completely agree---in my ECB Sintra paper, I had noted the Varieties of Capitalism literature (of which I am a fan) as follows (see screenshot) in the conclusion: https://t.co/WjoI9MzXA2 https://t.co/hciD058HcQ

Jacob Edenhofer 🇪🇺 🇺🇦

@edenhofer_jacob

3 months

Halte ich für sehr wichtig – frage mich aber zugleich, ob diese Art der Flexibilisierung nicht mittelfristig auch das Ende des deutschen vocational training-Modells bedeuten könnte. Ein zentraler Gedanke im Varieties of Capitalism-Ansatz von Hall und Soskice (der sicher nicht

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Benjamin Schoefer

@Schoefer_B

3 months

Zusätzliche Details z.B. in der FAS letzten Sonntag: https://t.co/vAbzbHUjMY https://t.co/GRJ1v66bJ0 Und siehe auch unsere Beiträge hierzu im EZB-Sintra-Forum @ecb Anfang Juli: https://t.co/i3yEMRVIdC Z.B. mein Sintra-Paper: https://t.co/WjoI9MzpKu https://t.co/hciD0589ni

ecb.europa.eu

Benjamin Schoefer

@Schoefer_B

3 months

Heute gibt es einen fantastischen und detaillierten Artikel zu meinem Paper & EZB-Sintra-Vortrag zum Thema Arbeitsmarktdynamik, -politik und Wachstum in der @faznet Sonntagszeitung: https://t.co/GRJ1v66Jyy Vielen Dank, @alexwulfers @Nina_Hewi! Das Paper: https://t.co/hciD058HcQ

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Benjamin Schoefer

@Schoefer_B

3 months

Heute in @FAZ_NET der Gastbeitrag von Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln und mir: "Wir müssen den Arbeitsmarkt dynamisieren" Thema: Wie beeinflussen die Arbeitsmarktpolitik und -dynamik Wachstum, Innovation, Technologienutzung und unsere Karrieren in Deutschland? https://t.co/UssIFqJiWA

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NBER

@nberpubs

3 months

Studying what management consulting does by using direct empirical evidence from the universe of business-to-business data in Belgium, from Gert Bijnens, @simon_jaeger, and @Schoefer_B https://t.co/llzic3VCr9

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Simon Jäger

@simon_jaeger

3 months

What does consulting do? Lots of strongly held views, very limited data to answer the question. In new @nberpubs paper, @bijneman @Schoefer_B and I shed light on this question using the first economy-wide data on consulting relationships (based on VAT-based B2B data). More👇

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CEPR

@cepr_org

3 months

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP20501 What Does Consulting Do? Gert Bijnens @NBB_BNB_FR @NBB_BNB_NL, @simon_jaeger, @Schoefer_B https://t.co/apipuMuhPR #CEPR_IO #CEPR_LE #CEPR_MG #CEPR_OE #EconTwitter

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Marginal Revolution

@MargRev

3 months

What does consulting do?

marginalrevolution.com

It is actually pretty useful: This paper provides the first systematic and comprehensive empirical study of management and strategy consulting. We unveil the workings of this opaque industry by...

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Chiara Lacava

@chiaralac

3 months

Collective bargaining shapes labor markets, yet we know little about its effects. In our new WP, we track workers shifted to contracts with lower wage floors: wages fall, but employment rises, suggesting adjustments along the firm's labor demand curve.

Benjamin Schoefer

@Schoefer_B

3 months

New paper on "Opting Out of Centralized Collective Bargaining: Evidence from Italy" w/ Christian Dustmann @c_giannetto @l_incoronato @chiaralac Vincenzo Pezone @raffaelesaggio Micro evidence on the effects on workers & firms PDFs: https://t.co/qLKv9xcreo https://t.co/Z3mpAFhEvU

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FT Alphaville

@FTAlphaville

3 months

Are consultants really just a waste of human skin?

ft.com

Some interesting findings from Belgium (really)

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