Sebastian Königs

@sebkoenigs.bsky.social

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Senior Economist at #OECD working on #inequality, #socialmobility, #labourmarkets, #socialprotection | Research Fellow @IZA.org | Econ DPhil from @ox.ac.uk | all views my own
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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 4d

German (nominal) wage growth.

...without qualification: +4.8%
...with apprenticeship-level qualification: +4%
...with a degree: 2.8%

Part of a longer-running trend of wage compression. (in German).

Sebastian Königs @sebkoenigs.bsky.social · 6d

„We then tested whether increases in hip-hop penetration were linked to changes in crime—and whether people exposed to more hip hop in their formative years experienced worse outcomes in education, employment, earnings, teen births and single parenthood.“ 📻

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The economics of hip hop - Marginal REVOLUTION

In a TED Talk released on Monday, I describe a decadelong effort to measure hip hop’s impact. My research team and I assembled a data set tracking the genre’s diffusion from the late 1980s onward. We ...

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Christian Breunig @breunig.bsky.social · 17d

🚨 Postdoctoral Position at the University of Konstanz 🚨

We’re hiring a post-doc for our @excinequality.bsky.social project on political elites and decision-making.

4-year position | Deadline: Feb. 20 | Start: Sept 2026

Please share widely 🙏

The ad is here stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/f...

Postdoctoral Position at the Cluster of Excellence “The Politics of Inequality”

Deadline: 20 February 2026, 12:00 pm CET

stellen.uni-konstanz.de

Sebastian Königs @sebkoenigs.bsky.social · 26d

Curious about the labour market, social and migration challenges facing Croatia, and comprehensive analysis of Croatia's policies and practices compared with good practices in OECD countries?

🔗 Full report (open access): doi.org/10.1787/90b7...

@oecdsocial.bsky.social

OECD Reviews of Labour Market and Social Policies: Croatia 2025

Croatia's economy and society have been marked by two major trends over the last decade: an impressive labour market recovery, and a mounting demographic challenge. After a long recession following th...

doi.org

Sebastian Königs @sebkoenigs.bsky.social · 26d

⚖️ Material deprivation down sharply w/ rising incomes, but poverty persists for seniors, people in rural areas & Roma.
Need better social services + adequate income support.

Sebastian Königs @sebkoenigs.bsky.social · 26d

📉 Employment rate still trails OECD avg (68.8% vs 70.5%), esp. for youth, older workers, low-educated & disabled.
Productivity/wage growth sluggish.
Recent initiatives: min wage increases, better job quality, modernised VET.

Sebastian Königs @sebkoenigs.bsky.social · 26d

🇭🇷 Croatia's labour market recovered impressively post-recession—unemployment at historic lows!
But working-age population shrinks fast: low fertility + post-EU emigration of young skilled workers.
Migration reform is key to fill gaps.

Sebastian Königs @sebkoenigs.bsky.social · 26d

🔔 Very happy that our OECD Review of Labour Market and Social Policies in Croatia is out! 🇭🇷 The report was prepared in the framework of Croatia’s accession process to the OECD.

Key challenges + recent policy initiatives. 🧵

🔗 doi.org/10.1787/90b7...

#LabourMarket #SocialPolicy #CroatiaOECD

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · Dec 20

Quite the chart. www.ft.com/content/30a4...

Sebastian Königs @sebkoenigs.bsky.social · Dec 19

Slightly embarrassed to admit that I do love my occasional Lapsang Souchong. #tea

The Economist @economist.com · Dec 19

Lapsang souchong, as it is known in the West, does not exist in China. Even the words may be a Western concoction. So how did this particular tea, of all teas, become a sensation abroad?

The rise and fall and rebirth of lapsang souchong

A smoky tea is fading in the West; in China, a better version survives

econ.st

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The Economist @economist.com · Dec 19

Lapsang souchong, as it is known in the West, does not exist in China. Even the words may be a Western concoction. So how did this particular tea, of all teas, become a sensation abroad?

The rise and fall and rebirth of lapsang souchong

A smoky tea is fading in the West; in China, a better version survives

econ.st

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · Dec 10

European countries have been increasing their Defence budgets significantly. The Germans more than anyone else. That said, some of the German Defence Euros will flow into infrastructure that is deemed to be crucial in case of an active war.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · Nov 20

‘Denim’ gets its name from the French words ‘de Nĭmes’ meaning "of Nĭmes," because it was manufactured in the city of Nĭmes.

‘Jeans’ comes from the city of Genoa (earlier known as Genes) because the pants were worn by the Genoese navy.

'JNCO' means “Judge None Choose One."

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · Nov 20

Attention is on NEETs today, but the problem is much worse.

NEETs include stay-at-home parents & jobseekers.

Strip those out to focus on people not working, not seeking work, not in education & not parenting: this group of economically & socially dislocated young adults has *doubled* in a decade.

Sebastian Königs @sebkoenigs.bsky.social · Nov 17

„Employers, having lost a way of telling strong from weak candidates, have cut all new hires’ pay, and more often end up recruiting worse candidates. For bosses, the fall in quality is more than compensated for by the fall in candidate wages.“

economist.com/finance-and-...

How AI is breaking cover letters

And leading to lower pay

economist.com

Sebastian Königs @sebkoenigs.bsky.social · Nov 15

„These estimates suggest that by 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8% […]. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%.“

www.nber.org/papers/w34459

The Economic Impact of Brexit

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

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Sebastian Königs @sebkoenigs.bsky.social · Oct 10

“[W]e found that women are represented as younger than men across occupations and social roles in nearly 1.4 million images and videos from Google, Wikipedia, IMDb, Flickr and YouTube, as well as in nine language models […]“

via @marginalrev.blogsky.venki.dev

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Age and gender distortion in online media and large language models - Nature

Stereotypes of age-related gender bias are socially distorted, as evidenced by the age gap in the representations of women and men across various media and algorithms, despite no systematic age differences in the workforce.

www.nature.com

Sebastian Königs @sebkoenigs.bsky.social · Oct 2

🪜 Very happy to see @jterrerodavila.bsky.social‘s and my work on income mobility using tax record data from 🇦🇹, 🇧🇪, 🇨🇦, and 🇪🇪covered in the LSE #Inequalities blog

@oecdsocial.bsky.social

LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · Sep 30

In our latest blog, Javier Terrero Dávila (@oecdsocial.bsky.social) asks how much income mobility do different countries exhibit?

And how does it vary across different groups relating to age, gender, education and where people live?

#LSEInequalitiesBlog

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Who climbs the income ladder? New evidence from tax records

Using surveys to track short-term social mobility – how much people move up or down the income ladder – has limitations. How can using administrative data help?

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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OECD Social @oecdsocial.bsky.social · Oct 2

Trade union membership & collective bargaining coverage have halved since the 1980s across most #OECD countries, while #employer organisation membership remains stable.

Explore the trends & challenges 👉 oe.cd/6cz

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LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · Sep 30

Who climbs the income ladder? New evidence from tax records

Using surveys to track short-term social mobility – how much people move up or down the income ladder – has limitations. How can using administrative data help?

blogs.lse.ac.uk

Sebastian Königs @sebkoenigs.bsky.social · Aug 22

„Paris is particularly ill-adapted to heat waves. A 2023 study published in the London-based medical journal The Lancet deemed it the European capital whose residents were most exposed to heat-related deaths.“ #Paris #climatechange

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/w...

Paris Braces for a Future of Possibly Paralyzing Heat

www.nytimes.com

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OECD Social @oecdsocial.bsky.social · Jul 24

📣 Just released: The @OECD’s Review of Labour Market and Social Policies in #Romania, prepared in the context of Romania’s accession process to OECD.

Find out how #Romania compares to OECD countries in the areas of employment, social and migration policy: oe.cd/686

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Janet Gornick @janetgornick.bsky.social · Jun 2

PhD students studying #inequality! Check out this online PhD Workshop, scheduled for July 2, 2025. Application deadline is June 8. Call-for-papers link below. Hosted by #ECINEQ. Direct questions to ecineqphd@gmail.com.

@stone-lis.bsky.social @lisdata.bsky.social

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This workshop is designed to bring together PhD candidates from diverse fields to explore and discuss their latest research on economic inequality. The workshop provides a platform to share research i...

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Martin Friedrich @martinfriedrich.bsky.social · Jun 2

We're hiring a postdoc in labor economics at IAB Nuremberg! Join @ineshelmecon.bsky.social, @jnimczik.bsky.social & me on a project about gig work.

🗓️ Start: 1 Oct 25
💶 Salary ≥ €5200/month 
🌱 Possibility to apply for tenure track program

Apply here until 17 June: econjobmarket.org/positions/11...

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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · May 17

Just learned something new. You can buy spurious citations that will show up on Google Scholar -- and people do.

John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · May 17

Nice.

arxiv.org/abs/2402.04607

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OECD Social @oecdsocial.bsky.social · May 16

As children’s digital lives evolve, so must our approach to their #WellBeing.
Discover the new OECD report that dives into how to empower kids to take advantage of new opportunities online, while protecting them from potential risks.
🔗 oe.cd/622

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · May 12

OK, this is wild.

In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.

It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.

What the HELL?

1/

Unsplash image of the Earth, mostly the nightside with a tracery of city lights on every continent.

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OECD Social @oecdsocial.bsky.social · May 6

📣 Just released: The @OECD’s Review of Labour Market and Social Policies in #Bulgaria, prepared in the context of Bulgaria’s accession process to OECD.

Find out how Bulgaria compares to OECD countries in the areas of employment, social and migration policy: oe.cd/60u

Reposted by Sebastian Königs

The New York Times @nytimes.com · Apr 30

Screeching contestants gathered in Belgium on Sunday for the fifth annual European Gull Scream Championship, a competition meant to see who could produce the best imitation of a sea gull.

Read more: nyti.ms/4jyRF2M

Sebastian Königs @sebkoenigs.bsky.social · Apr 28

📢 Great #internship opportunity in a wonderful team in @oecdsocial.bsky.social for students interested in #affordablehousing, #socialhousing and #homelessness 🏠

🙏 Please circulate and apply!
@alibargu.bsky.social

www.linkedin.com/posts/mariss...

OECD housing internship_Summer-Fall 2025 | Marissa (Ellis) Plouin

We're looking for a top-notch #intern to join the housing team in OECD Social, ideally based in Paris from summer through fall 2025. We're looking for someone who is: 🏠 interested in #afforda...

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