New publication 🚨 Happy to have a chapter in the new Handbook of Comparative Political Economy, which offers a great overview of the state of the field, edited by Marino Regini.

doi.org/10.4337/9781...

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New semester, new students - looking forward to teaching my course on labour market policies in comparative perspective 😊

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Sieh mal einer an, wer hier fiskalisch verantwortungsvoll aussieht und wer nicht...

Politisch etwas spät, das zu posten, aber inhaltlich interessant: ziemlich perfekte links-rechts Anordnung.

Viktor Orban congratulated Trump even before he had secured a majority of electoral college votes, calling it a "victory for the world". When will the EU finally get serious about this friend of fascism (including Putin) in its own ranks?

Excited to have an article in the American Political Science Review! 😊 Christian Schemmel and I investigate the best way to justify minimum wages.

doi.org/10.1017/S000...

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#MinimumWage

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Over the years ever more developed democracies have adopted statutory minimum wages. Out of the 33 countries in our dataset only 8 do not have statutory minimum wages today.

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A word of caution on the UK election: Labour vote share increased by only 1.7 percentage points; Conservatives and Reform UK together got more votes than Labour.
(www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...)

We conducted an event study with country-level data and a multi-level analysis with individual union membership as dependent variable. We could not confirm that minimum wages crowd out union density.

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New article by Michal Kozák, Peter Starke and me in
@bjireditor.bsky.social! Are workers less willing to join unions when there is a statutory minimum wage? ...or at least low-wage workers?

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Deadline approaching, Friday. Apply for Peter Starke's and my workshop at NOPSA, 25-28 June, in Bergen.

"Comparative and Historical Political Economy: The Continuing Relevance of Macro and Meso-Level Approaches"

www.nopsa2024.no

The chapter presents the use of both options in advanced democracies, and then identifies four minimum wage regimes, distinguished by the degree to which minimum wages are based on collective bargaining or statutory law.

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The chapter presents the use of both options in advanced democracies, and then identifies four minimum wage regimes, distinguished by the degree to which minimum wages are based on collective bargaining or statutory law.

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I just published a handbook chapter on #minimumwages, with a hopefully useful overview over minimum wages by #collectivebargaining and by law.
 
It’s available open access here: doi.org/10.4337/9781...

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Peter Starke and I are organizing a workshop at the Nordic Political Science conference in Bergen in June 2024:

"Comparative and Historical Political Economy: The Continuing Relevance of Macro and Meso-Level Approaches"

Send us your paper proposals by 15 December!

www.nopsa2024.no

My article (w/ Siri H. Pedersen) on regulation of low wages has now been published in a regular issue in Socio-Economic Review:

doi.org/10.1093/ser/...