Paolo Santini
@paolosantini.bsky.social
Labor economist interested in inequalities, workers' voice, and minorities. I like history and politics. Now postdoc at IAB, INTER department.
https://sites.google.com/view/paolo-santini/home-page
https://sites.google.com/view/paolo-santini/home-page
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When states like Colorado passed policies requiring employers to disclose salary information in job postings, what happened?
It increased competition, and raised wages, without harming employment or changing skill requirements.
Improved functioning of markets, helped workers.
It increased competition, and raised wages, without harming employment or changing skill requirements.
Improved functioning of markets, helped workers.
November 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
When states like Colorado passed policies requiring employers to disclose salary information in job postings, what happened?
It increased competition, and raised wages, without harming employment or changing skill requirements.
Improved functioning of markets, helped workers.
It increased competition, and raised wages, without harming employment or changing skill requirements.
Improved functioning of markets, helped workers.
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There is a strong positive association between equality and development over the long run — that's what this new study based on our historical series available on wid.world is clearly showing.
Key findings in thread 🧵(1/9)👇
Key findings in thread 🧵(1/9)👇
Does #equality promote #inclusion and #productivity, or hinder #growth❓
🔴Our new study revisits this long-running debate — finding a strong positive link between equality and development over the long run.
Read more▶️ wid.world/news-article...
🔴Our new study revisits this long-running debate — finding a strong positive link between equality and development over the long run.
Read more▶️ wid.world/news-article...
Equality and Development: A Comparative & Historical Perspective 1800-2025 - WID - World Inequality Database
Equality and Development: A Comparative & Historical Perspective 1800-2025 This paper combines income and wealth inequality series from the World Inequality Database (WID) and new global series on hou...
wid.world
October 27, 2025 at 4:41 PM
There is a strong positive association between equality and development over the long run — that's what this new study based on our historical series available on wid.world is clearly showing.
Key findings in thread 🧵(1/9)👇
Key findings in thread 🧵(1/9)👇
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New work on school cell phone bans just dropped.
"Bans...led to a[n] ... increase in student suspensions in the short-term ... but disciplinary actions began to dissipate after the first year."
"We find significant improvements in student test scores in the second year of the ban."
"Bans...led to a[n] ... increase in student suspensions in the short-term ... but disciplinary actions began to dissipate after the first year."
"We find significant improvements in student test scores in the second year of the ban."
October 20, 2025 at 12:29 PM
New work on school cell phone bans just dropped.
"Bans...led to a[n] ... increase in student suspensions in the short-term ... but disciplinary actions began to dissipate after the first year."
"We find significant improvements in student test scores in the second year of the ban."
"Bans...led to a[n] ... increase in student suspensions in the short-term ... but disciplinary actions began to dissipate after the first year."
"We find significant improvements in student test scores in the second year of the ban."
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Hostility towards #academia and #immigrants is widespread. #Denmark is no exception. Under political and media pressure, earlier this week @roskildeuni.bsky.social decided overnight to close its Master's degree in Business Administration and Leadership (BAL) from 2026.
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September 17, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Hostility towards #academia and #immigrants is widespread. #Denmark is no exception. Under political and media pressure, earlier this week @roskildeuni.bsky.social decided overnight to close its Master's degree in Business Administration and Leadership (BAL) from 2026.
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Do individuals move ⤴️ or⤵️ the income ladder because of jumps in labor or capital income, or both?
👉Upward mobility is primarily driven by labor income but almost never by capital alone, find @marcoranaldi.bsky.social @joelliambuehler.bsky.social @robertoiacono.org
▶️ wid.world/news-article...
👉Upward mobility is primarily driven by labor income but almost never by capital alone, find @marcoranaldi.bsky.social @joelliambuehler.bsky.social @robertoiacono.org
▶️ wid.world/news-article...
Upward mobility is primarily driven by labor income but almost never by capital alone - WID - World Inequality Database
Upward mobility is primarily driven by labor income but almost never by capital alone This paper studies the dynamics of capital and labor income mobility using high-quality register data from Norway.
wid.world
October 7, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Do individuals move ⤴️ or⤵️ the income ladder because of jumps in labor or capital income, or both?
👉Upward mobility is primarily driven by labor income but almost never by capital alone, find @marcoranaldi.bsky.social @joelliambuehler.bsky.social @robertoiacono.org
▶️ wid.world/news-article...
👉Upward mobility is primarily driven by labor income but almost never by capital alone, find @marcoranaldi.bsky.social @joelliambuehler.bsky.social @robertoiacono.org
▶️ wid.world/news-article...
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Racial minorities in France face substantial earnings penalties, with Middle Eastern/North African and Sub-Saharan African individuals most affected. This is one of the key findings of a new study by @yajnagovind.bsky.social @paolosantini.bsky.social & E. Derenoncourt.
▶️ wid.world/news-article...
▶️ wid.world/news-article...
Racial minorities in France face substantial earnings penalties - WID - World Inequality Database
This study documents disparities in earnings and ranks across different minority groups in France and compare France with the US.
wid.world
October 1, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Racial minorities in France face substantial earnings penalties, with Middle Eastern/North African and Sub-Saharan African individuals most affected. This is one of the key findings of a new study by @yajnagovind.bsky.social @paolosantini.bsky.social & E. Derenoncourt.
▶️ wid.world/news-article...
▶️ wid.world/news-article...
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Substantial earnings penalties exist for racial minorities in France. Compared to the US, lower overall inequality benefits French racial minorities, but rank gaps are comparable, from Yajna Govind, Paolo Santini, and Ellora Derenoncourt https://www.nber.org/papers/w34013
July 16, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Substantial earnings penalties exist for racial minorities in France. Compared to the US, lower overall inequality benefits French racial minorities, but rank gaps are comparable, from Yajna Govind, Paolo Santini, and Ellora Derenoncourt https://www.nber.org/papers/w34013
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With the upcoming referendum on citizenship on June 8-9th in Italy, with @maartenpvink.bsky.social & @lorenzopiccoli.bsky.social , we discuss how this would be a crucial step toward aligning Italy with the more inclusive and modern citizenship regimes common across Europe!
On 8–9 June, Italian citizens vote in referendum to reduce the residency requirement for non-EU nationals to apply for 🇮🇹 citizenship from 10 years to 5
With @lorenzopiccoli.bsky.social & @yajnagovind.bsky.social in @larepubblica.bsky.social on why this matters
firenze.repubblica.it/dossier/fire...
With @lorenzopiccoli.bsky.social & @yajnagovind.bsky.social in @larepubblica.bsky.social on why this matters
firenze.repubblica.it/dossier/fire...
Italy’s citizenship referendum: a chance to catch up with Europe
In this article, experts in migration and citizenship policies, applied labor, and public economics discuss the upcoming referendum in Italy, examining its pot…
firenze.repubblica.it
May 31, 2025 at 3:37 PM
With the upcoming referendum on citizenship on June 8-9th in Italy, with @maartenpvink.bsky.social & @lorenzopiccoli.bsky.social , we discuss how this would be a crucial step toward aligning Italy with the more inclusive and modern citizenship regimes common across Europe!
Reposted by Paolo Santini
On 8–9 June, Italian citizens vote in referendum to reduce the residency requirement for non-EU nationals to apply for 🇮🇹 citizenship from 10 years to 5
With @lorenzopiccoli.bsky.social & @yajnagovind.bsky.social in @larepubblica.bsky.social on why this matters
firenze.repubblica.it/dossier/fire...
With @lorenzopiccoli.bsky.social & @yajnagovind.bsky.social in @larepubblica.bsky.social on why this matters
firenze.repubblica.it/dossier/fire...
Italy’s citizenship referendum: a chance to catch up with Europe
In this article, experts in migration and citizenship policies, applied labor, and public economics discuss the upcoming referendum in Italy, examining its pot…
firenze.repubblica.it
May 31, 2025 at 1:44 PM
On 8–9 June, Italian citizens vote in referendum to reduce the residency requirement for non-EU nationals to apply for 🇮🇹 citizenship from 10 years to 5
With @lorenzopiccoli.bsky.social & @yajnagovind.bsky.social in @larepubblica.bsky.social on why this matters
firenze.repubblica.it/dossier/fire...
With @lorenzopiccoli.bsky.social & @yajnagovind.bsky.social in @larepubblica.bsky.social on why this matters
firenze.repubblica.it/dossier/fire...
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New study: The relative wage premium for going to college has halved for low-income Americans since 1960.
What is to blame? Rising selectivity? Tuition hikes? State disinvestment? We decompose changes in the premium since 1900 to find out.
🧵#EconTwitter nber.org/papers/w33797
What is to blame? Rising selectivity? Tuition hikes? State disinvestment? We decompose changes in the premium since 1900 to find out.
🧵#EconTwitter nber.org/papers/w33797
May 19, 2025 at 11:24 AM
New study: The relative wage premium for going to college has halved for low-income Americans since 1960.
What is to blame? Rising selectivity? Tuition hikes? State disinvestment? We decompose changes in the premium since 1900 to find out.
🧵#EconTwitter nber.org/papers/w33797
What is to blame? Rising selectivity? Tuition hikes? State disinvestment? We decompose changes in the premium since 1900 to find out.
🧵#EconTwitter nber.org/papers/w33797
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In this new paper joint with @ondineberland.bsky.social, featured in The Guardian, we show that :
-women in France emit 26% less CO₂ than men from food & transpor
- the gap isn’t just down to biology or labor market differences.
Thread will follow, see full paper here:
www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...
-women in France emit 26% less CO₂ than men from food & transpor
- the gap isn’t just down to biology or labor market differences.
Thread will follow, see full paper here:
www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...
May 14, 2025 at 11:30 AM
In this new paper joint with @ondineberland.bsky.social, featured in The Guardian, we show that :
-women in France emit 26% less CO₂ than men from food & transpor
- the gap isn’t just down to biology or labor market differences.
Thread will follow, see full paper here:
www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...
-women in France emit 26% less CO₂ than men from food & transpor
- the gap isn’t just down to biology or labor market differences.
Thread will follow, see full paper here:
www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...
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📢 The next #REGIS seminar year will occur this Friday, April 25, 2025, at 12.30 PM CET. 🤓 Astrid Ulv Thomsen (CBS) will present "Climbing the ivory tower: How socio-economic background shapes academia."by Ran Abramitzky, Lena Greska, Santiago Perez, Joe Price, Carlo Schwarz & Fabian Waldinger.
REGIS
Welcome! REGIS is a bi-weekly, pan-European virtual reading group series focusing on Science, Technology, and Innovation topics. REGIS’ main objectives are twofold. First, it seeks to train young sch...
www.regis.science
April 22, 2025 at 11:02 PM
📢 The next #REGIS seminar year will occur this Friday, April 25, 2025, at 12.30 PM CET. 🤓 Astrid Ulv Thomsen (CBS) will present "Climbing the ivory tower: How socio-economic background shapes academia."by Ran Abramitzky, Lena Greska, Santiago Perez, Joe Price, Carlo Schwarz & Fabian Waldinger.
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Intergenerational mobility of immigrants in 15 destination countries
( @yajnagovind.bsky.social et alii)
docs.iza.org/dp17711.pdf
( @yajnagovind.bsky.social et alii)
docs.iza.org/dp17711.pdf
February 17, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Intergenerational mobility of immigrants in 15 destination countries
( @yajnagovind.bsky.social et alii)
docs.iza.org/dp17711.pdf
( @yajnagovind.bsky.social et alii)
docs.iza.org/dp17711.pdf
Very important paper!
Recently accepted by #QJE, “Officer-Involved: The Media Language of Police Killings,” by Moreno-Medina, Ouss, Bayer, and Ba: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
Officer-Involved: The Media Language of Police Killings*
Abstract. This paper examines language patterns in US television news coverage of police killings. We first document that the media use semantic structures
doi.org
January 31, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Very important paper!
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🚨Call for Papers: IZA/Leiden University/OECD Workshop “Recent Advances in Labor Economics Using Linked Employer-Employee Data”
May 22, 2025 - May 23, 2025, The Hague, The Netherlands
Submission Deadline: February 14, 2025
📄Full details here: legacy.iza.org/conference_f...
May 22, 2025 - May 23, 2025, The Hague, The Netherlands
Submission Deadline: February 14, 2025
📄Full details here: legacy.iza.org/conference_f...
IZA/Leiden University/OECD Workshop: Recent Advances in Labor Economics Using Linked Employer-Employee Data
legacy.iza.org
December 17, 2024 at 9:40 AM
🚨Call for Papers: IZA/Leiden University/OECD Workshop “Recent Advances in Labor Economics Using Linked Employer-Employee Data”
May 22, 2025 - May 23, 2025, The Hague, The Netherlands
Submission Deadline: February 14, 2025
📄Full details here: legacy.iza.org/conference_f...
May 22, 2025 - May 23, 2025, The Hague, The Netherlands
Submission Deadline: February 14, 2025
📄Full details here: legacy.iza.org/conference_f...
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New paper published @ajpseditor.bsky.social
Showing that reduced access to public services fuelled far right support in 🇮🇹
Existing work on far right highlights globalization & migration grievances, what about people’s experiences with the state?
We use 🇮🇹 reform to find out
shorturl.at/zQ8bJ
Showing that reduced access to public services fuelled far right support in 🇮🇹
Existing work on far right highlights globalization & migration grievances, what about people’s experiences with the state?
We use 🇮🇹 reform to find out
shorturl.at/zQ8bJ
December 5, 2024 at 5:22 PM
New paper published @ajpseditor.bsky.social
Showing that reduced access to public services fuelled far right support in 🇮🇹
Existing work on far right highlights globalization & migration grievances, what about people’s experiences with the state?
We use 🇮🇹 reform to find out
shorturl.at/zQ8bJ
Showing that reduced access to public services fuelled far right support in 🇮🇹
Existing work on far right highlights globalization & migration grievances, what about people’s experiences with the state?
We use 🇮🇹 reform to find out
shorturl.at/zQ8bJ
Reposted by Paolo Santini
Basically, US and UK firms that violate minimum wage laws face little probability of getting caught and pay only small fines when they do.
Via @annastansbury.bsky.social in @ilrreview.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
Via @annastansbury.bsky.social in @ilrreview.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
November 28, 2024 at 12:03 PM
Basically, US and UK firms that violate minimum wage laws face little probability of getting caught and pay only small fines when they do.
Via @annastansbury.bsky.social in @ilrreview.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
Via @annastansbury.bsky.social in @ilrreview.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
Very cool paper, very strong candidate: Nikita is on the JMP!
In today's #econjmp, Nikita Kohli of Duke uses synthetic DiD to show how a labor reform in Brazil that was intended to increase formal employment by weakening union power actually decreased formal employment & increased informal labor due to less enforcement blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...?
Can Weakened Unions Fuel Formal Work? Lessons from Brazil's Labor Reform. Guest post by Nikita Kohli
blogs.worldbank.org
November 27, 2024 at 10:02 AM
Very cool paper, very strong candidate: Nikita is on the JMP!
The French touch to @bsky.app !
For more France-related content: go.bsky.app/RhQLT3S
Share & let me know who I should add :)
Share & let me know who I should add :)
November 16, 2024 at 6:19 PM
The French touch to @bsky.app !
In a nutshell, Republicans see scientists as clever but selfish and devious. Sort of Dr. No from a 007 movie. No wonder they fear and despise them.
Republicans and Democrats in the U.S. differ in what terms they feel describe research scientists.
Read more in our new report about US trust in scientists! pewrsr.ch/3USzH0S
Read more in our new report about US trust in scientists! pewrsr.ch/3USzH0S
November 15, 2024 at 1:13 PM
In a nutshell, Republicans see scientists as clever but selfish and devious. Sort of Dr. No from a 007 movie. No wonder they fear and despise them.
Articolo in cui cerco di fare il punto su cosa sappiamo e su cosa non sappiamo sul numero di iscritti al sindacato in Italia. lavoce.info/archives/102...
Basato su un paper con @ulojkine.bsky.social e Cyprien Batut.
Basato su un paper con @ulojkine.bsky.social e Cyprien Batut.
October 6, 2023 at 9:36 AM
Articolo in cui cerco di fare il punto su cosa sappiamo e su cosa non sappiamo sul numero di iscritti al sindacato in Italia. lavoce.info/archives/102...
Basato su un paper con @ulojkine.bsky.social e Cyprien Batut.
Basato su un paper con @ulojkine.bsky.social e Cyprien Batut.