🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

#AMEC  (New York Fed Research) will host a Symposium on “The U.S. Labor Market in the 21st Century" on November 22. Please register and attend if you are interested and share the invite with your friends, students, colleagues! The Symposium has three sessions …. 1/n

Congratulations to Maryam Farboodi on winning the 2024 Elaine Bennett research prize! aeaweb.org/about-aea/comm… #EconTwitter

Banning noncompetes in the US would raise wages by 4%.

In an economy with realistic firm heterogeneity, a federal minimum wage cannot meaningfully reduce the efficiency losses due to monopsony power. Minimum wages do redistribute, but at the cost of lower production. By Berger, Herkenhoff and Mongey econometricsociety.org/publications/e…

The Fujita/Moscarini/Postel-Vinay series of Employer-to-Employer transitions is now available on FRED. Check it out! Many thanks to St. Louis Fed and Serdar Birinci in particular for helping make that happen! fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FMPSA fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FMPSA3MA

I 😍 FRED nytimes.com/2024/12/06/bus…

Well this is bad Lev Borodovsky Bloomberg Economics

Returning home after 2 days in beautiful Sydney at the inaugural e61 Institute Micro4Macro w'shop, organized by myself, Greg Kaplan, Gianna LaCava and John Romalis. Great program and exciting to put a new top macro conference on the map. Looking forward to edition 2 in 2025!

I would like to invite you to our "The Micro and Macro Perspectives of Labor Market" Virtual Reading Group co-organized with Jesse Wedewer at Duke Economics.

Recently accepted by #QJE, “Officer-Involved: The Media Language of Police Killings,” by Moreno-Medina, Ouss, Bayer, and Ba: doi.org/10.1093/qje/qj…

That was quick! The price of avocados at my local ALDI USA store has already gone up by 10 percent. Here's my Instacart screenshot from today (Feb 2, 2025).

📢 We just posted a MATLAB suite for panel local projections. It supports estimation and inference, including small-sample refinements, fixed-effects, controls, cumulative responses... Available at github.com/TinchoAlmuzara… together with replication files.

A new model of collusion in the labor market finds employer cartels fix a wage ceiling and harm to workers large in slack or concentrated markets or if combined with product market collusion, from @agottfries and Gregor Jarosch nber.org/papers/w33501

Using survey data from Germany combined with an 'what is the optimal length of the workweek' model suggests 37 hours, from Gregor Jarosch, PILoSSopher, and Anthony Swaminathan nber.org/papers/w33577

I went last year and can highly recommend this- it was an excellent conference !!! Not to mention that Sydney is a nice place to be in December 😂

I have a friend who did a PhD with me but left research and every time he sees me on my laptop he asks whether my value function iteration has converged😂

The costs and benefits of a shorter workweek Gregor Jarosch, PILoSSopher, Anthony Swaminathan Duke University Duke Economics ow.ly/oI5650WrFzw