Marc Witte
@marcjosefwitte
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Labor and Development Economist @VU_SBE -- PhD @UniOfOxford and @Oxford_CSAE; via @iza_bonn @NYUAbuDhabi
Rotterdam / Amsterdam
Joined March 2018
🚨🚨New WP Alert ( https://t.co/fsjoncPIZX)🚨🚨
@marcjosefwitte, @BalgovaMaria, @TsegayTselassie, and I have a new working paper using a field experiment to study the causal impact of pay information in job adverts on application numbers and applicant skills. A🧵
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“AfD is most popular in the same areas of Germany that were most resistant to the Nazis” Nazi (black) election map 1932 AfD (blue) election map 2024
I’m not endorsing a party in the German elections, as it’s not my country and we hope to have good relations with all Germans. But this is an interesting piece. Also interesting; American media slanders AfD as Nazi-lite, But AfD is most popular in the same areas of Germany that
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“High speed” trains running at 80 km/hour. Direct services from Amsterdam to London now impossible. And Eurostar in the Netherlands at risk of being scrapped altogether A national embarrassment Instead of obsessing over Schiphol maybe we could fix this? https://t.co/kqxaOIbLec
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Why don’t small firms consolidate? Our new forthcoming publication at the Journal of Development Economics explores labor allocation across small firms. https://t.co/6DWzl3XeDf
@sykim_econ @JamieMccasland @AMenzel_Econ @marcjosefwitte
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Excited to welcome my amazing co-author and an all-round great labour economist @Simon_Trenkle to #econtwitter 🥳
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Forthcoming in AEJ: Macroeconomics: "Search, Screening, and Sorting" by Xiaoming Cai, Pieter Gautier, and Ronald Wolthoff.
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(July 2025) - We examine how search frictions impact labor market sorting by constructing a model consistent with evidence that employers interview a subset of a pool of applicants. We derive...
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Out now: The sound of difference: Race, class and the politics of 'diversity' in classical music by @KolbeKristina Reveals how ongoing diversity discourses in the cultural industries link to the remaking of white elitism. https://t.co/2U33LrJ9Yb
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New DP - DP19118 The Effects of Mental Health Interventions on Labor Market Outcomes in Low- and Middle-Income Countries C Lund, @kateorkin, @marcjosefwitte, J Walker, T Davies, @jhaushofer, S Murray, @JudithKBass, @LauraMurray_phd, W Tol, V Patel https://t.co/PMnujBbknJ
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CSAE Working Paper 'The Effects of Mental Health Interventions on Labour Market Outcomes in Low-&-Middle-Income Countries' 🖋️@kateorkin @marcjosefwitte @jhaushofer @jwalker_econ Thandi Davies Sarah Murray @JudithKBass Laura Murray Wietse Tol Vikram Patel https://t.co/egMtjDSKKg
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Deadline is approaching (May 31st)! Submit your econ field experiments to participate in the Field Days in Amsterdam (Oct 17-18)
tinbergen.nl
I am co-organizing the Field Days in Amsterdam this year with @marcjosefwitte and @nadineketel Submit your work on field experiments until May 31st.
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Submit your paper until Friday and join us in Amsterdam in October!
The "Field Days - Experiments Outside the Lab" workshop is in Amsterdam this year! Check out the call for papers and submit your paper by May 31. 🗓️ Oct 17-18, 2024 📍 Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 📄 CfP: https://t.co/5L6nGulPY1
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The "Field Days - Experiments Outside the Lab" workshop is in Amsterdam this year! Check out the call for papers and submit your paper by May 31. 🗓️ Oct 17-18, 2024 📍 Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 📄 CfP: https://t.co/5L6nGulPY1
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Five days left to apply for this great Postdoc opportunity!
📢 We are hiring 📢 Join our team in Bonn! We're seeking a Postdoc in labor and/or behavioral economics for initially 2 years. 👉 Apply now: https://t.co/o66v1ktaBL
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🔟days left to apply for the 25th IZA Summer School! 📢PhD students don't miss this great opportunity to interact & benefit from lectures by @umalmend @sdellavi @ASchiprowski Andrew Oswald, Ernst Fehr & Florian Zimmermann! 📅 July 15-19, 2024 in Bonn 🇩🇪 https://t.co/saJ3XyieK8
newsroom.iza.org
Top international economists confirmed as this year's lecturers
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Das @iza_bonn sucht zum 1. April (oder später) eine studentische Hilfskraft (m/w/d) zur Mitarbeit an spannenden politiknahen Projekten in der empirischen Arbeitsmarktforschung. Bei Interesse bitte melden - wir (@krause_pilatus und @ulfrinne) freuen uns auf Unterstützung! #hiring
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New #vacancy alert 📣 IGC is #hiring a Country Economist in Ethiopia. The deadline is 7 April, and more information can be found below - #apply now! 📋 https://t.co/2mhZWLsUpV
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Discover career opportunities at the International Growth Centre and join a global team driving impactful economic research and policy advice.
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📢#cfp 25th @iza_bonn Summer School in Labor Economics 📅 July 15-19, 2024 in Bonn 🇩🇪 🗣️Lectures by @umalmend @sdellavi @ASchiprowski Andrew Oswald, Ernst Fehr & Florian Zimmermann Apply by March 31 👉 https://t.co/SbJk1QETsN
@UZH_en @uniofwarwick @UCBerkeley @UniBonn
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📢 We are hiring 📢 Join our team in Bonn! We're seeking a Postdoc in labor and/or behavioral economics for initially 2 years. 👉 Apply now: https://t.co/o66v1ktaBL
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What is a firm again? The fluidity of firm boundaries in developing country firms - I summarize recent empirical work on how capital & labor can be fluid across firms & workers in developing countries
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A new empirical literature documents the fluidity of firm boundaries when it comes to capital and labor among small firms in developing countries.
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