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Jakob Wegmann
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Applied Labor and Public Economist, Postdoc @rfberlin.bsky.social

https://jakobwegmann.github.io/
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rfberlin.bsky.social
Join us on 4 November for the RFBerlin Annual Public Lecture: “Why Women Won” by Nobel Laureate Claudia Goldin.
🎟️ Register now: form.typeform.com/to/j3BaW2OV

Discover how women’s roles in work and society have evolved and what challenges remain
More about the event: www.rfberlin.com/event/why-wo...
Why Women Won by Claudia Goldin
Following the success of our first public lecture, we are pleased to announce the next RFBerlin Annual Public Lecture, organized in collaboration with the Humboldt University of Berlin! This year, RFB...
www.rfberlin.com
October 6, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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lwallossek.bsky.social
Brauchen wir eigentlich Steuererklärungen? Wer profitiert wenn wir die automatisieren? Und warum würde das die Verteilungswirkung der Einkommensteuer erhöhen?

Darüber habe ich mit Marilena Piesker @zeit.de gesprochen 🗞️

www.zeit.de/geld/2025-07...
Abschaffung der Steuererklärung: Nie wieder Steuererklärung!
Die Steuererklärung abschaffen? Klingt verrückt, aber eine vorausgefüllte Erklärung könnte viel Zeit und Geld sparen – und das Steuersystem gerechter machen.
www.zeit.de
July 18, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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jburnmurdoch.ft.com
Full slide deck here from our talk yesterday on the gender divide and relationship recession, featuring many more countries and plenty of economic data too: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/1lp1d...
June 4, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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jburnmurdoch.ft.com
South Korea gender divide update 😲

Young men lean right by 50 points
(74% conservative vs 24% centre-left)

Young women lean left by 22 points
(58% centre-left vs 36% cons)
June 4, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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econtribute.bsky.social
💼Nebenjobs im Bundestag: Wer verdient am meisten - und wie kommt das bei der Wählerschaft an? Im ECONtribute Wirtschaftspodcast spricht Cluster-Mitglied @nicercarina.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social über Kompetenz, Korruption und Kohle 👉: econtribute.de/de/newsroom/... #EconSky @dfg.de
May 5, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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scientificdiscovery.dev
Hey researchers, bloggers, everyone interested in fertility data!

We recently added lots of new data at Our World in Data on fertility rates, ages at childbirth, twin birth rates, birth seasonality, and more.

Here's a thread of what you can find on the site! 🧵
March 12, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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ingoisphording.bsky.social
Devastating news at IZA yesterday. More than 25 years of hard work, earned reputation, and valuable institutional knowledge and public good provision wiped out with a single stroke. It’s hard to find the words.
February 25, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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dlangenmayr.bsky.social
The German income tax system is too complicated. What could we do to improve it? Nadine Riedel, Martin Jacob and I wrote down a few ideas for @taxfoundation.bsky.social Europe.
taxfoundation.org/blog/germany...
Simplifying Germany's Income Tax System: A Path Toward Fairness and Efficiency
While many Scandinavians get mailed comprehensive pre-filled tax returns and only have to check whether they are correct, the average German taxpayer spends 9 to 10 hours and over €100 filing their ta...
taxfoundation.org
February 18, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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jonasjessen.bsky.social
Gestern in der FAZ in einem gemeinsamen Artikel mit Katharina Spieß: "Deutschland uneinig Mutterland"

35 Jahre nach der Wiedervereinigung bestehen nach wie vor Unterschiede zwischen Ost & West bei der mütterlichen Erwerbstätigkeit, Bezahlung & Kinderbetreuung ⚖️

Vieles ist jedoch in Bewegung!
February 4, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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codendahl.bsky.social
Always wanted someone to do exactly that chart! Beautiful, isn't it?
December 16, 2024 at 10:59 AM
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frwoolley.bsky.social
The details of tax policy implementation matter, folks.
jakobwegmann.bsky.social Jakob Wegmann @jakobwegmann.bsky.social · Nov 23
Hello #EconSky!

📢Excited to share my #JMP 📢

It provides a missing piece to understand how people react to income taxation.

Tldr: By changing tax pre-payments governments can - with almost no costs - increase perceived work incentives of secondary earners and reduce the gender gap.

Thread below👇🧵
To collect income taxes, almost all countries require employers to withhold monthly tax prepayments which are then fully credited against the final income tax liabilities of their employees. Despite being a fundamental component of income taxation systems worldwide, the impact of these withholding taxes on labor supply is poorly understood. We investigate their importance in the context of married couples in Germany where the withholding tax liability can be redistributed between spouses. We exploit a reform that reduced the withholding tax for some married women more than for others, while inducing no differences in income taxes. Using administrative data for the full population of German taxpayers, we estimate an elasticity of labor income with respect to the withholding tax eight years after the reform of 0.14. Additional evidence from a self-conducted survey suggests imperfect understanding of the tax system and limited pooling of resources within the household as the main mechanisms. As the majority of couples shift parts of the withholding tax liability from the husband to the wife, our results suggest that the increased withholding tax liability of married women contributes to their low labor supply. This highlights the need for governments to be aware of the distortion of labor supply incentives when the design of withholding taxes does not match actual income tax incentives.
November 29, 2024 at 7:27 PM
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cgergs.bsky.social
Hello #EconSky 👋 excited to share my JMP!

❓What are the impacts of offering student finance as a grant or a loan?

In the paper, I...
🎓 Study individual university enrolment, subject choice & career motivations
❗️Explore aggregate outcomes e.g. access to university & the occupational structure
🧵👇
November 19, 2024 at 6:54 PM
jakobwegmann.bsky.social
Hello #EconSky!

📢Excited to share my #JMP 📢

It provides a missing piece to understand how people react to income taxation.

Tldr: By changing tax pre-payments governments can - with almost no costs - increase perceived work incentives of secondary earners and reduce the gender gap.

Thread below👇🧵
To collect income taxes, almost all countries require employers to withhold monthly tax prepayments which are then fully credited against the final income tax liabilities of their employees. Despite being a fundamental component of income taxation systems worldwide, the impact of these withholding taxes on labor supply is poorly understood. We investigate their importance in the context of married couples in Germany where the withholding tax liability can be redistributed between spouses. We exploit a reform that reduced the withholding tax for some married women more than for others, while inducing no differences in income taxes. Using administrative data for the full population of German taxpayers, we estimate an elasticity of labor income with respect to the withholding tax eight years after the reform of 0.14. Additional evidence from a self-conducted survey suggests imperfect understanding of the tax system and limited pooling of resources within the household as the main mechanisms. As the majority of couples shift parts of the withholding tax liability from the husband to the wife, our results suggest that the increased withholding tax liability of married women contributes to their low labor supply. This highlights the need for governments to be aware of the distortion of labor supply incentives when the design of withholding taxes does not match actual income tax incentives.
November 23, 2024 at 3:55 PM
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ginapieters.bsky.social
To all the new #EconSky people whi may be dealing with the Econ Job Market:

*There is an #EconJMP feed
*I have a PhD Job Market Starter Pack go.bsky.app/4icnwxi. If you are a candidate or an institution posting *many* openings, reach out and I will add you.
November 14, 2024 at 1:36 PM
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ingoisphording.bsky.social
I created an IZA @iza.org Network Fellows/Affiliates starterpack, starting from those I am following, and who are following me. I surely missed a lot. Please reply below this tweet and tag yourself and your fellow Fellows! #econsky #laboreconomics #econ

go.bsky.app/5NP4VCb
November 12, 2024 at 8:30 AM
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seema.bsky.social
I started a starter pack of economists working on gender. It's sparsely populated, so please point out people I've missed.
go.bsky.app/P6kvUEe
November 11, 2024 at 12:12 PM
jakobwegmann.bsky.social
Die FAZ berichtet in einem tollen Artikel (danke Michel Krasenbrink und @neuscheler.bsky.social !) über unsere Forschung, die zeigt, dass verheirate Frauen aufgrund des deutschen Steuerklassensystems weniger arbeiten.
#Steuerklasse #GenderGap #EconSky
@lenardsimon.bsky.social, Tim Bayer
Ein Artikel der FAZ zur Wirkung des deutschen Lohnsteuersystems auf die Arbeit von verheirateten Frauen
July 30, 2024 at 7:41 PM
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felixrusche.bsky.social
Ever wondered how discrimination affects job networks? In our two-stage experiment on LinkedIn, we provide insights into the question, causally studying the effect of discrimination on Black individuals' job networks in the U.S.
December 19, 2023 at 1:11 PM
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cpz-econ.bsky.social
JMP alert 🎉

What drives maternal labor supply - a key factor for labor market inequalities?

Gender role attitudes!

We use reduced form and structural methods to show that they are of first-order importance, both directly and through the mediation of policies (w/ Tim Mensinger)

🧵👇
November 21, 2023 at 9:48 AM
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balgovamaria.bsky.social
Excited to share my new WP (which also happens to be my job market paper!)

How does online recruitment impact the geography of the labour market?

Full paper here sites.google.com/view/mariaba...

and a thread below:
November 16, 2023 at 9:48 AM