Jon Nielsen
@jonnielsen.bsky.social
Danish economist in Addis Ababa.
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Unions boost wages 🚀
On average, a union worker earns 12.8% more in wages than their nonunionized peers.
But unions don’t just help union workers—they help ALL workers by raising standards.
Read our new report about how unions are good for workers AND communities: www.epi.org/publication/...
On average, a union worker earns 12.8% more in wages than their nonunionized peers.
But unions don’t just help union workers—they help ALL workers by raising standards.
Read our new report about how unions are good for workers AND communities: www.epi.org/publication/...
Unions aren’t just good for workers—they also benefit communities and democracy
Rebuilding worker power by strengthening unions is not just good policy—it is a democratic imperative in the face of authoritarian backsliding.
www.epi.org
August 20, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Unions boost wages 🚀
On average, a union worker earns 12.8% more in wages than their nonunionized peers.
But unions don’t just help union workers—they help ALL workers by raising standards.
Read our new report about how unions are good for workers AND communities: www.epi.org/publication/...
On average, a union worker earns 12.8% more in wages than their nonunionized peers.
But unions don’t just help union workers—they help ALL workers by raising standards.
Read our new report about how unions are good for workers AND communities: www.epi.org/publication/...
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Sultkatastrofen i Gaza er ifølge FN mere alvorlig end på noget andet tidspunkt i den næsten to år lange konflikt. Information har samlet otte centrale tal om udsultningen af Gaza.
Det kan være svært at finde ord for situationen i Gaza. Men det er ikke svært at finde tal
www.information.dk
August 17, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Sultkatastrofen i Gaza er ifølge FN mere alvorlig end på noget andet tidspunkt i den næsten to år lange konflikt. Information har samlet otte centrale tal om udsultningen af Gaza.
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Economist @sgechert.bsky.social brings much-needed sense to the current policy discussions in Finland regarding the Orpo government's decision to lower the corporate tax rate from 20% to 18%.
Finnish Finance Ministry misunderstood my research, says German tax researcher
German economics Professor Sebastian Gechert told Yle that he was "a little annoyed" the ministry did not use the main finding from his study.
yle.fi
May 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Economist @sgechert.bsky.social brings much-needed sense to the current policy discussions in Finland regarding the Orpo government's decision to lower the corporate tax rate from 20% to 18%.
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Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Skill Depreciation during Unemployment: Evidence from Panel Data" by Jonathan Cohen, Andrew C. Johnston, and Attila Lindner. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Skill Depreciation during Unemployment: Evidence from Panel Data
(Forthcoming Article) - We examine the depreciation of skills among unemployed German workers using a
panel of skill measures linked to administrative data. Both the reemployment hazard
and reemployme...
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January 2, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Skill Depreciation during Unemployment: Evidence from Panel Data" by Jonathan Cohen, Andrew C. Johnston, and Attila Lindner. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
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Powerful study by @breznaunate.bsky.social and Borjas. Hadn't thought this would be the case.
George Borjas and I dug into our crowdsourced experimental data to show what he suspected: that researchers' findings on a politically relevant topic followed their political ideology. www.nber.org/papers/w33274
Ideological Bias in Estimates of the Impact of Immigration
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...
www.nber.org
December 26, 2024 at 9:11 AM
Powerful study by @breznaunate.bsky.social and Borjas. Hadn't thought this would be the case.
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This new paper uses machine learning to detect political leanings in economists' academic writing and shows: partisanship shapes research fields, journals, and even key policy estimates, e.g. optimal top tax rates vary from 77% (left) to 60% (right) based on imputed partisanship
November 25, 2024 at 7:33 AM
This new paper uses machine learning to detect political leanings in economists' academic writing and shows: partisanship shapes research fields, journals, and even key policy estimates, e.g. optimal top tax rates vary from 77% (left) to 60% (right) based on imputed partisanship
Paul Krugmans analyse af økonomisk politik i USA kunne lige så godt handle om Danmark
Finally, the structure of incentives in economics and economic policy favors hard-line positions. Politicians who wrongly called for austerity got to give speeches at Davos about the need to make hard choices. We need to make incorrect hardliners pay some reputational price 5/
December 22, 2023 at 5:23 PM
Paul Krugmans analyse af økonomisk politik i USA kunne lige så godt handle om Danmark
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Finally, the structure of incentives in economics and economic policy favors hard-line positions. Politicians who wrongly called for austerity got to give speeches at Davos about the need to make hard choices. We need to make incorrect hardliners pay some reputational price 5/
December 22, 2023 at 3:59 PM
Finally, the structure of incentives in economics and economic policy favors hard-line positions. Politicians who wrongly called for austerity got to give speeches at Davos about the need to make hard choices. We need to make incorrect hardliners pay some reputational price 5/