Agneta Berge
@agnetaberge.bsky.social
Postdoc at the Department of Economics at Uppsala University, interested in macroeconomics, labor markets, wage setting.
https://sites.google.com/view/agnetaberge
https://sites.google.com/view/agnetaberge
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Det här är så utstuderat grymt.
Först får Gazas befolkning svälta i veckor.
När lite mat släpps igenom under kaotiska former skjuts desperata människor ihjäl av israelisk militär.
omni.se/guterres-kra...
Först får Gazas befolkning svälta i veckor.
När lite mat släpps igenom under kaotiska former skjuts desperata människor ihjäl av israelisk militär.
omni.se/guterres-kra...
Guterres kräver omedelbar utredning: ”Oacceptabelt”
FN:s generalsekreterare António Guterres kräver en omedelbar och oberoende utredning efter att ett stort antal personer dödats på väg till en plats för nödhjälp i Gaza. En talesperson för FN-toppen sä...
omni.se
June 4, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Det här är så utstuderat grymt.
Först får Gazas befolkning svälta i veckor.
När lite mat släpps igenom under kaotiska former skjuts desperata människor ihjäl av israelisk militär.
omni.se/guterres-kra...
Först får Gazas befolkning svälta i veckor.
När lite mat släpps igenom under kaotiska former skjuts desperata människor ihjäl av israelisk militär.
omni.se/guterres-kra...
Det känns fint, stort på ett sätt, att få göra en doktorsavhandling i nationalekonomi vars framsida är fylld med kollektivavtal
May 19, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Det känns fint, stort på ett sätt, att få göra en doktorsavhandling i nationalekonomi vars framsida är fylld med kollektivavtal
My doctoral thesis in economics, On the Formation of Wages and Wealth, is now available online!
The main contribution is Ch1, a theoretical study of wage setting under a combination of sector-wide and firm-level bargaining—so called “two-tier bargaining”.
su.diva-portal.org/smash/record...
The main contribution is Ch1, a theoretical study of wage setting under a combination of sector-wide and firm-level bargaining—so called “two-tier bargaining”.
su.diva-portal.org/smash/record...
On the Formation of Wages and Wealth
su.diva-portal.org
May 19, 2025 at 9:47 AM
My doctoral thesis in economics, On the Formation of Wages and Wealth, is now available online!
The main contribution is Ch1, a theoretical study of wage setting under a combination of sector-wide and firm-level bargaining—so called “two-tier bargaining”.
su.diva-portal.org/smash/record...
The main contribution is Ch1, a theoretical study of wage setting under a combination of sector-wide and firm-level bargaining—so called “two-tier bargaining”.
su.diva-portal.org/smash/record...
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I Florida diskuterar man alltså att ta bort vissa lagar som begränsar barnarbete, i syfte att möta efterfrågan på arbetskraft som papperslösa migranter har lämnat efter sig
edition.cnn.com/2025/03/25/b...
edition.cnn.com/2025/03/25/b...
Florida debates lifting some child labor laws to fill jobs vacated by undocumented immigrants | CNN Business
Florida has been working for years to crack down on employers that hire undocumented immigrants. But that presented a problem for businesses in the state that are desperate for workers to fill low-wag...
edition.cnn.com
March 27, 2025 at 11:46 AM
I Florida diskuterar man alltså att ta bort vissa lagar som begränsar barnarbete, i syfte att möta efterfrågan på arbetskraft som papperslösa migranter har lämnat efter sig
edition.cnn.com/2025/03/25/b...
edition.cnn.com/2025/03/25/b...
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We have a vacant position in labor/education economics at @ifau.bsky.social in Uppsala. Application deadline is on the 21st of April 👇
www.ifau.se/Om-IFAU/ledi...
www.ifau.se/Om-IFAU/ledi...
IFAU
www.ifau.se
March 11, 2025 at 2:31 PM
We have a vacant position in labor/education economics at @ifau.bsky.social in Uppsala. Application deadline is on the 21st of April 👇
www.ifau.se/Om-IFAU/ledi...
www.ifau.se/Om-IFAU/ledi...
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”Min största skräck idag är egentligen inte Elon Musk eller Donald Trump, utan den handfallenhet deras attacker möts med.” Jättebra av @karinp.bsky.social i @aftonbladetkultur.bsky.social
www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/qP8...
www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/qP8...
Därför vill Trump och Musk krossa staten
KARIN PETTERSSON Därför vill Trump och Musk krossa staten
www.aftonbladet.se
February 16, 2025 at 8:55 AM
”Min största skräck idag är egentligen inte Elon Musk eller Donald Trump, utan den handfallenhet deras attacker möts med.” Jättebra av @karinp.bsky.social i @aftonbladetkultur.bsky.social
www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/qP8...
www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/qP8...
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Kloka @lisapelling.bsky.social har startat ett ”starters pack” för fackliga röster som jag rekommenderar. Gå gärna in där och koppla upp dig mot vettigt fackligt folk på Bluesky!👇🏼
go.bsky.app/5SABfb5
go.bsky.app/5SABfb5
February 12, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Kloka @lisapelling.bsky.social har startat ett ”starters pack” för fackliga röster som jag rekommenderar. Gå gärna in där och koppla upp dig mot vettigt fackligt folk på Bluesky!👇🏼
go.bsky.app/5SABfb5
go.bsky.app/5SABfb5
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Coming up: WEI 2025 - the popular Workshop in Labor Economics: Wages, Employment and Inequality in Helsinki in August with Magne Mogstad & Stephen Machin as keynote speakers!
Submit your paper by 30 March!
verotutkimus.fi/en/wei2025/
Organisers:@tuomaskosonen.bsky.social @oskarnskans.bsky.social
Submit your paper by 30 March!
verotutkimus.fi/en/wei2025/
Organisers:@tuomaskosonen.bsky.social @oskarnskans.bsky.social
» Call for Papers: Workshop in Labor Economics: Wages, Employment and Inequality (WEI 2025)
<p>The popular WEI workshop will be organised again in Helsinki, Finland on 21 – 22 August 2025 with Magne Mogstad and Stephen Machin as keynote speakers! </p>
<p>Submit your paper by 30 March 2025! <...
verotutkimus.fi
February 10, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Coming up: WEI 2025 - the popular Workshop in Labor Economics: Wages, Employment and Inequality in Helsinki in August with Magne Mogstad & Stephen Machin as keynote speakers!
Submit your paper by 30 March!
verotutkimus.fi/en/wei2025/
Organisers:@tuomaskosonen.bsky.social @oskarnskans.bsky.social
Submit your paper by 30 March!
verotutkimus.fi/en/wei2025/
Organisers:@tuomaskosonen.bsky.social @oskarnskans.bsky.social
"Yes, we can ask whether a policy move makes sense in terms of its announced goals. But you should also always ask, 'How does doing this serve the autogolpe?'"
Don't just ask how Musk/Trump actions serve their supposed purposes. Ask how they aid the attempt to seize power paulkrugman.substack.com/p/autogolpe
Autogolpe
What’s really happening beneath the Musk/Trump chaos
paulkrugman.substack.com
February 7, 2025 at 1:11 PM
"Yes, we can ask whether a policy move makes sense in terms of its announced goals. But you should also always ask, 'How does doing this serve the autogolpe?'"
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AMIE is now accepting submissions for the "4th Workshop in Applied Microeconomics", for PhD students, to be held remotely on Zoom on April 28 and 29, 2025.
Submission Deadline: February 27, 2025
Call for papers: econmentoring.org/wp-content/u...
Please share, R/T #EconSky 1/3
Submission Deadline: February 27, 2025
Call for papers: econmentoring.org/wp-content/u...
Please share, R/T #EconSky 1/3
econmentoring.org
January 28, 2025 at 6:52 AM
AMIE is now accepting submissions for the "4th Workshop in Applied Microeconomics", for PhD students, to be held remotely on Zoom on April 28 and 29, 2025.
Submission Deadline: February 27, 2025
Call for papers: econmentoring.org/wp-content/u...
Please share, R/T #EconSky 1/3
Submission Deadline: February 27, 2025
Call for papers: econmentoring.org/wp-content/u...
Please share, R/T #EconSky 1/3
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🚨🚨🚨To all researchers in Stockholm/Uppsala: submit your paper to the 7th Stockholm-Uppsala Education Ecnomics Workshop on May 5 in Uppsala.
More information and submission: jansauermann.github.io/educworkshop...
Submission deadline: March 1, 2025
More information and submission: jansauermann.github.io/educworkshop...
Submission deadline: March 1, 2025
January 31, 2025 at 2:54 PM
🚨🚨🚨To all researchers in Stockholm/Uppsala: submit your paper to the 7th Stockholm-Uppsala Education Ecnomics Workshop on May 5 in Uppsala.
More information and submission: jansauermann.github.io/educworkshop...
Submission deadline: March 1, 2025
More information and submission: jansauermann.github.io/educworkshop...
Submission deadline: March 1, 2025
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🚨 New publication 🚨
How do social networks shape job referrals? We conducted a field study to explore gender homophily in referral hiring. Turns out, both men and women mainly refer candidates of their own gender. 🧵👇
📄 doi.org/10.1016/j.la...
With @karinhederos.bsky.social. #econsky
How do social networks shape job referrals? We conducted a field study to explore gender homophily in referral hiring. Turns out, both men and women mainly refer candidates of their own gender. 🧵👇
📄 doi.org/10.1016/j.la...
With @karinhederos.bsky.social. #econsky
January 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Thanks to all who assisted. I have put links and brief descriptions on my webpage. Please let me know if I should add/change anything: sites.google.com/view/jonasvl...
January 24, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Thanks to all who assisted. I have put links and brief descriptions on my webpage. Please let me know if I should add/change anything: sites.google.com/view/jonasvl...
I am so happy to be joining the fantastic environment at Uppsala University this fall as a post-doc! I can hardly imagine a better fit research-wise and very much look forward to working with and alongside all the kind and excellent researchers there.
Very happy to share that @agnetaberge.bsky.social will join
Uppsala as a post-doc in the fall! Agneta is macroeconomist coming out of IIES with a focus on labor markets and wage setting. In her JMP, she develops a theory of two-tier collective wage bargaining.
drive.google.com/file/d/1x-tV...
Uppsala as a post-doc in the fall! Agneta is macroeconomist coming out of IIES with a focus on labor markets and wage setting. In her JMP, she develops a theory of two-tier collective wage bargaining.
drive.google.com/file/d/1x-tV...
January 28, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I am so happy to be joining the fantastic environment at Uppsala University this fall as a post-doc! I can hardly imagine a better fit research-wise and very much look forward to working with and alongside all the kind and excellent researchers there.
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Position as professor in economics (any field) at Stockholm University, Department of Economics. Apply by March 31.
Annons på svenska: su.varbi.com/se/what:job/...
Ad in English: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
#econsky #economics
Annons på svenska: su.varbi.com/se/what:job/...
Ad in English: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
#econsky #economics
Professor i nationalekonomi
Nationalekonomiska institutionen Mer information om oss finns på: Nationalekonomiska institutionen Ämne/ämnesbeskrivning Nationalekonomi utan begränsningar inom ämnet. Arbetsuppgifter Forskning,
su.varbi.com
January 21, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Position as professor in economics (any field) at Stockholm University, Department of Economics. Apply by March 31.
Annons på svenska: su.varbi.com/se/what:job/...
Ad in English: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
#econsky #economics
Annons på svenska: su.varbi.com/se/what:job/...
Ad in English: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
#econsky #economics
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Står du eller någon du känner utan planer för våren? Grundkursen i nationalekonomi vid SU är öppen för sen anmälan! www.su.se/sok-kurser-o...
Passar distans på halvtid bättre? Läs då mikroekonomi med Mikael Priks och mig som lärare: www.su.se/sok-kurser-o...
Passar distans på halvtid bättre? Läs då mikroekonomi med Mikael Priks och mig som lärare: www.su.se/sok-kurser-o...
Nationalekonomi I - Stockholms universitet
Grundkursen Nationalekonomi I ger dig en bred ekonomisk allmänbildning som är värdefull oavsett vad du sedan kommer att studera eller arbeta med. Du kan läsa Nationalekonomi I på helfart eller halvfar...
www.su.se
December 20, 2024 at 10:56 AM
Står du eller någon du känner utan planer för våren? Grundkursen i nationalekonomi vid SU är öppen för sen anmälan! www.su.se/sok-kurser-o...
Passar distans på halvtid bättre? Läs då mikroekonomi med Mikael Priks och mig som lärare: www.su.se/sok-kurser-o...
Passar distans på halvtid bättre? Läs då mikroekonomi med Mikael Priks och mig som lärare: www.su.se/sok-kurser-o...
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And the new era begins. My Substack is alive again, and here's my first post paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-fraudu...
The Fraudulence of “Waste, Fraud and Abuse”
History repeats itself, the first time as farce, the second as clown show
paulkrugman.substack.com
December 11, 2024 at 11:41 AM
And the new era begins. My Substack is alive again, and here's my first post paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-fraudu...
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One particular problem: the president has the ability to offer tariff exemptions for specific firms. This creates an obvious possibility for corrupt policymaking, rewarding friends and punishing enemies. This isn't theory: it actually happened under Trump 1.0 5/ www2.lehigh.edu/news/politic...
Politically Connected Corporations Received More Exemptions from U.S. Tariffs on Chinese Imports, Study Finds
Exemption grant process functioned as a “spoils system” rewarding political supporters and punishing opponents
www2.lehigh.edu
November 14, 2024 at 1:51 PM
One particular problem: the president has the ability to offer tariff exemptions for specific firms. This creates an obvious possibility for corrupt policymaking, rewarding friends and punishing enemies. This isn't theory: it actually happened under Trump 1.0 5/ www2.lehigh.edu/news/politic...
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Hi #EconSky! I’m a PhD Candidate in Economics at Uppsala University.
My #EconJMP investigates how firms’ previous employment experience in a particular occupation affects hiring standards, wages, and post-hiring outcomes.
Find out more about my research here: sites.google.com/view/dogangu...
My #EconJMP investigates how firms’ previous employment experience in a particular occupation affects hiring standards, wages, and post-hiring outcomes.
Find out more about my research here: sites.google.com/view/dogangu...
November 26, 2024 at 12:07 PM
Hi #EconSky! I’m a PhD Candidate in Economics at Uppsala University.
My #EconJMP investigates how firms’ previous employment experience in a particular occupation affects hiring standards, wages, and post-hiring outcomes.
Find out more about my research here: sites.google.com/view/dogangu...
My #EconJMP investigates how firms’ previous employment experience in a particular occupation affects hiring standards, wages, and post-hiring outcomes.
Find out more about my research here: sites.google.com/view/dogangu...
I’m excited to share my JMP, in which I develop a model of two-tier collective wage bargaining---where central negotiations are supplemented with local adjustments---in a frictional labor market. 1/8
Website: sites.google.com/view/agnetab...
Website: sites.google.com/view/agnetab...
Introducing our #EconJMC @agnetaberge.bsky.social. In her #EconJMP “Two-tier collective wage bargaining in a frictional labor market” she develops a general equilibrium model of two-tier bargaining, where central negotiations are supplemented with local adjustments bit.ly/4eUBDgR #econsky 1/6
November 21, 2024 at 2:18 PM
I’m excited to share my JMP, in which I develop a model of two-tier collective wage bargaining---where central negotiations are supplemented with local adjustments---in a frictional labor market. 1/8
Website: sites.google.com/view/agnetab...
Website: sites.google.com/view/agnetab...
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Happy recipients of the Assar Lindbeck Medal, a career award for the best Swedish economist(s) under 45. 🥂 🎉
November 15, 2024 at 7:00 PM
Happy recipients of the Assar Lindbeck Medal, a career award for the best Swedish economist(s) under 45. 🥂 🎉
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As this is really helping me getting a network, here are some people doing research on industrial relations and trade unions
Feel free to suggest more @etui.bsky.social @mhermans.bsky.social @melaniesimms.bsky.social @johnwbudd.bsky.social @kurtvandaele.bsky.social
go.bsky.app/8W2BZMR
Feel free to suggest more @etui.bsky.social @mhermans.bsky.social @melaniesimms.bsky.social @johnwbudd.bsky.social @kurtvandaele.bsky.social
go.bsky.app/8W2BZMR
November 14, 2024 at 1:39 PM
As this is really helping me getting a network, here are some people doing research on industrial relations and trade unions
Feel free to suggest more @etui.bsky.social @mhermans.bsky.social @melaniesimms.bsky.social @johnwbudd.bsky.social @kurtvandaele.bsky.social
go.bsky.app/8W2BZMR
Feel free to suggest more @etui.bsky.social @mhermans.bsky.social @melaniesimms.bsky.social @johnwbudd.bsky.social @kurtvandaele.bsky.social
go.bsky.app/8W2BZMR
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Should we subsidise the care for elderly people?
Patrizia blends elegant theoretical with excellent empirical work to show that an increase of the subsidy in fact paid for itself.
She is an enormously promising researcher.
Check out her work!
Patrizia blends elegant theoretical with excellent empirical work to show that an increase of the subsidy in fact paid for itself.
She is an enormously promising researcher.
Check out her work!
Introducing our #EconJMC Patrizia Massner. In her #EconJMP “Should Elder Care Be Subsidized? Theory and Evidence from Sweden” Patrizia examines the impact of a 2002 elder care fee reform that lowered costs by 40% on average for 2/3 of Sweden’s municipalities. www.su.se/institute-fo... 1/6 #econsky
November 18, 2024 at 8:28 PM
Should we subsidise the care for elderly people?
Patrizia blends elegant theoretical with excellent empirical work to show that an increase of the subsidy in fact paid for itself.
She is an enormously promising researcher.
Check out her work!
Patrizia blends elegant theoretical with excellent empirical work to show that an increase of the subsidy in fact paid for itself.
She is an enormously promising researcher.
Check out her work!
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Hey all, I created a starter pack with a list of Black economists and academics for an easily accessible list of folks doing research that we can all follow and cite #Blacksky #AddtoBlacksky #Econsky: go.bsky.app/RyKSzcb
November 13, 2024 at 10:25 PM
Hey all, I created a starter pack with a list of Black economists and academics for an easily accessible list of folks doing research that we can all follow and cite #Blacksky #AddtoBlacksky #Econsky: go.bsky.app/RyKSzcb