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Axel Malmcrona
@axelm.bsky.social
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Phd student @ Gothenburg uni (labor/IO)
He/him
Learn more: https://axelm-ugot.github.io/
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pappahutten.bsky.social
What is it good for?
Bruce Springsteen - War (Live at LA Coliseum, Los Angeles, CA - September 1985)
Listen to War (Live at LA Coliseum, Los Angeles, CA - September 1985) on TIDAL
tidal.com
January 1, 2026 at 12:32 AM
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itsafronomics.bsky.social
Black economists not being regularly platformed is costing us. Literally.
December 22, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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nber.org
Reviewing how antitrust is beginning to be used in labor markets, the evidence for and against its use, and the remaining evidence gaps standing in the way of more effective use, from Elena Prager www.nber.org/papers/w34572
December 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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timdickinson.bsky.social
Some of these redactions are almost like modern art
December 19, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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mindyourlizness.bsky.social
Läs forskningen av @jakobbeu.bsky.social, Horng Chern Wong & Jósef Sigurdsson: www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10...
December 16, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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mindyourlizness.bsky.social
”Vi finner inga bevis för genomsnittliga produktivitetsökningar i svenska företag. I stället verkar många förvärv vara händelser som präglas av uppsägningar och lönesänkningar, där pengar omfördelas från arbetstagare till aktieägare och chefer.”
flamman.se Flamman @flamman.se · 22d
Allt fler företag köper upp varandra eller slås ihop. Enligt ny forskning från Stockholms universitet leder sammanslagningarna ofta till sänkta löner och varsel.

”Ibland ser vi lönerna sjunka så fort någon sätter sig i styrelsen”, säger en av forskarna till Flamman.

www.flamman.se/forskare-ans...
Forskare: Anställda förlorar när företag slås ihop
Företagsförvärv – förlust varje gång?
www.flamman.se
December 16, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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gabrielzucman.bsky.social
It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US

This view is wrong

A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
December 12, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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florianederer.bsky.social
In Sweden, corporate acquisitions lead to persistent earnings losses for workers.

Wages fall, some workers are displaced, and the gains largely go to acquiring CEOs and shareholders.

Employment and revenue stay flat. Profit rises because value is extracted from workers.
December 9, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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bsoeberlin.bsky.social
🔎 Meet our Job Market Candidate: Bruno Veltri

📑 brunoveltri.github.io/papers/pensi...
🌐 brunoveltri.github.io
👥 berlinschoolofeconomics.de/job-market/j...

@humboldtuni.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @wzb.bsky.social @rfberlin.bsky.social

#econjobmarket #jobmarketcandidate
December 4, 2025 at 10:24 AM
axelm.bsky.social
Jag rekommendera Mannaminnes värdshus julbord för er ångermanlänningar där ute
December 6, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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toebias.bsky.social
För jävla deppigt. För Postnord är det alltså viktigare att få tillbaka begagnade arbetskläder än att tacka av sin personal.

Insändare: Vad betyder ett helt arbetsliv hos Postnord?

www.smp.se/insandare/va...
Postnord arbetare blir hånfullt behandlad när han ska gå i pension efter 47 år
December 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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ifau.bsky.social
Nyantagna studenter som får studentboende före terminsstart presterar bättre under sitt första studieår. Det framgår av en ny rapport från IFAU som analyserar ett bostadslotteri för nyantagna studenter i Lund.

www.ifau.se/Press/Meddel...
December 5, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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skolinkvisition.bsky.social
Alex Schulman blir ett vrak som förälder i svensk skola. Förstår honom och försöker förklara varför: ökade krav på elevers analytiska förmåga, mindre lärartid för varje elev och att elever förväntas lära sig mer själva. ”Effektivisering” kallar dom det.
www.dn.se/kultur/marcu...
Marcus Larsson: Att du känner dig som en idiot är logiskt, Alex Schulman
Så länge effektivitetskraven får styra i svenska skolan kommer utvecklingen bara att fortsätta, skriver läraren och debattören Marcus Larsson.
www.dn.se
December 3, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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paulgp.com
> Between 1995 and 2021 (our sample period), there were a total of 47 individuals who have been a congressional leader; 20 of whom made stock trades both before and after ascension to leadership.
jakemgrumbach.bsky.social Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · Dec 3
After becoming a congressional leader, a politician’s stock portfolio beats out those of peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts

www.nber.org/papers/w34524

via @florianederer.bsky.social
"Captain Gains" on Capitol Hill Shang-Jin Wei & Yifan Zhou WORKING PAPER 34524 DOI 10.3386/w34524 ISSUE DATE November 2025 Using transaction-level data on US congressional stock trades, we find that lawmakers who later ascend to leadership positions perform similarly to matched peers beforehand but outperform them by 47 percentage points annually after ascension. Leaders' superior performance arises through two mechanisms. The political influence channel is reflected in higher returns when their party controls the chamber, sales of stocks preceding regulatory actions, and purchase of stocks whose firms receiving more government contracts and favorable party support on bills. The corporate access channel is reflected in stock trades that predict subsequent corporate news and greater returns on donor-owned or home-state firms. 令 1 1 -9 -8 -7 -6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 1 2 3 4 5 7 8 9 Year Figure 2: Estimated dynamic quasi-difference-in-differences coefficient, di, of equation(3), with vertical dashed lines representing 90 percent confidence intervals. The point estimate of the year in which the lawmaker became a congressional leader (Year 0) is normalized to zero. BHAR over the 250 days following each trade is the dependent variable and calculated using the Fama-French five-factor plus momentum as the benchmark model.
December 3, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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khmusen.bsky.social
I'm on the #EconJobMarket! I study how policies and childhood environments shape outcomes of low-income & vulnerable kids.

In my JMP, I study the effects of allowing youth who would have aged out of foster care at 18 to stay until 21—offering support their peers not in foster care get from parents.
November 20, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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themountaingoats.bsky.social
oh they gave me a blue check now I can say how I REALLY feel!!! trans rights free Palestine housing is a human right universal health care for all six hour day for eight hours pay mandatory minimum wage raises that track to rent & cost of living protect the oceans & the rivers and bring back Jujubes
November 30, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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john-fallon-econ.com
I'm John Fallon, a labor economist on the job market. My JMP uncovers something wild: when chiropractors got licensed in the early 1900s, medical boards responded by making it HARDER to become a doctor.

Why would competition lead to stricter regulations?
🧵

john-fallon-econ.com

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Line graph showing cumulative state adoption of chiropractic boards over time
November 24, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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repec-nep-lma.bsky.social
Making Talk Cheap: Generative AI and Labor Market Signaling: Anais Galdin; Jesse Silbert
NEP/RePEc link
to paper
d.repec.org
November 25, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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rbrett.bsky.social
After you help your boss convert a doc to PDF
November 22, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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dynarski.bsky.social
predatory men are an enormous tax on women’s productivity (and happiness)
November 17, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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aaronsojourner.org
Laws requiring pay listing on job openings "increased the fraction of postings with salary information by 30 percentage points. Across three datasets, we find consistent evidence of an increase in wages of 1.3-3.6%."
#EconSky
www.nber.org/papers/w3448...
The Impact of Pay Transparency in Job Postings on the Labor Market David Arnold, Simon Quach, Bledi Taska #34480 Abstract: This paper studies the labor market effects of recent state-level policies that require employers to disclose salary information in job postings. Leveraging a difference-in-differences design, we show that employers increased the fraction of postings with salary information by 30 percentage points. Across three datasets, we find consistent evidence of an increase in wages of 1.3-3.6%. We find no impacts on pay dispersion, employment, the number of postings, or skill and education requirements. Our evidence is consistent with pay transparency increasing competition in the labor market, leading to positive spillovers on incumbent workers and always-posting firms.
November 17, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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repec-nep-lma.bsky.social
The (In)effectiveness of Targeted Payroll Tax Reductions: Alessandra Fenizia; Nicholas Y. Li; Luca Citino
NEP/RePEc link
to paper
d.repec.org
November 15, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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ppcreanza.bsky.social
🚀 I'm on the #EconSky Job Market!

My JMP asks a classic question:
Do large, dominant firms foster or hinder innovation?

To study this, I turn to the Great Merger Wave (1895–1904), when >2,600 U.S. firms combined into corporate giants like U.S. Steel and DuPont.

A JMP 🧵👇 (1/13)
November 11, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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aaronsojourner.org
#EconJMP
georgweizsaecker.bsky.social Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · Nov 10
🚨Very Strong Job Market Candidates

#EconSky

The Berlin School of Economics is a unique cooperation of 9 institutions - together we do research and train PhDs/Postdocs.

This year: fantastic people in applied micro, behavioral/experimental, and macro. 👇🏻

berlinschoolofeconomics.de/job-market/j...
Job Market Candidates
berlinschoolofeconomics.de
November 10, 2025 at 10:07 AM
axelm.bsky.social
Antitrust for Labor markets
November 8, 2025 at 10:30 PM