Sebastian Königs
@sebkoenigs.bsky.social
Senior Economist at #OECD working on #inequality, #socialmobility, #labourmarkets, #socialprotection | Research Fellow @IZA.org | Econ DPhil from @ox.ac.uk | all views my own
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📍Paris 18
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📍Paris 18
📢 I am delighted to share that the #OECD ELS Directorate is now active on Bluesky, posting here about our work on #employment, #social, #migration, and #health policy… and of course on #inequality 🌎
@oecdsocial.bsky.social
@oecdsocial.bsky.social
March 12, 2025 at 6:41 PM
📢 I am delighted to share that the #OECD ELS Directorate is now active on Bluesky, posting here about our work on #employment, #social, #migration, and #health policy… and of course on #inequality 🌎
@oecdsocial.bsky.social
@oecdsocial.bsky.social
Another quite depressing read about the decline of manufacturing in Germany. 🇩🇪
“Together, Dax constituents Volkswagen, Thyssenkrupp and BASF have lost €50bn, or 34 per cent, in market capitalisation over the past five years.”
on.ft.com/42WxkPH
“Together, Dax constituents Volkswagen, Thyssenkrupp and BASF have lost €50bn, or 34 per cent, in market capitalisation over the past five years.”
on.ft.com/42WxkPH
February 19, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Another quite depressing read about the decline of manufacturing in Germany. 🇩🇪
“Together, Dax constituents Volkswagen, Thyssenkrupp and BASF have lost €50bn, or 34 per cent, in market capitalisation over the past five years.”
on.ft.com/42WxkPH
“Together, Dax constituents Volkswagen, Thyssenkrupp and BASF have lost €50bn, or 34 per cent, in market capitalisation over the past five years.”
on.ft.com/42WxkPH
Striking figures by the @nytimes.com on the growing disparities between economic growth and different metrics of well-being in the U.S. relative to other advanced economies
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/b...
February 15, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Striking figures by the @nytimes.com on the growing disparities between economic growth and different metrics of well-being in the U.S. relative to other advanced economies
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/b...
Interesting FT article about the declining response rate to the UK LFS #EconSky
h/t @jterrerodavila.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/dd55...
h/t @jterrerodavila.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/dd55...
February 9, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Interesting FT article about the declining response rate to the UK LFS #EconSky
h/t @jterrerodavila.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/dd55...
h/t @jterrerodavila.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/dd55...
📢 Call for papers for an #inequalities conference organised by @lseinequalities.bsky.social for the 10th anniversary of the LSE/III in London in September #EconSky #EconConf
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February 2, 2025 at 1:16 PM
📢 Call for papers for an #inequalities conference organised by @lseinequalities.bsky.social for the 10th anniversary of the LSE/III in London in September #EconSky #EconConf
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„From the 🇺🇸 , 🇫🇮 and 🇰🇷 to 🇹🇷 , 🇹🇳 and 🇹🇭 , falling birth rates are increasingly downstream of a relationship recession among young adults. Baby bonuses put the cart before the horse when a growing share of people are without a partner.“
by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social
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by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social
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January 11, 2025 at 11:04 AM
„From the 🇺🇸 , 🇫🇮 and 🇰🇷 to 🇹🇷 , 🇹🇳 and 🇹🇭 , falling birth rates are increasingly downstream of a relationship recession among young adults. Baby bonuses put the cart before the horse when a growing share of people are without a partner.“
by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social
on.ft.com/4fWosfH
by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social
on.ft.com/4fWosfH
If you’re in Paris in February and passionate about #socialpolicy, consider attending our #OECD High-Level Forum.
Discussions on new frontiers for SP, from managing demographic shifts to adapting to the digital and green transitions. #EconConf
🗓️ 13 February 2025
🔗 Register here: t.co/MRKxQq1GhL
Discussions on new frontiers for SP, from managing demographic shifts to adapting to the digital and green transitions. #EconConf
🗓️ 13 February 2025
🔗 Register here: t.co/MRKxQq1GhL
January 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
If you’re in Paris in February and passionate about #socialpolicy, consider attending our #OECD High-Level Forum.
Discussions on new frontiers for SP, from managing demographic shifts to adapting to the digital and green transitions. #EconConf
🗓️ 13 February 2025
🔗 Register here: t.co/MRKxQq1GhL
Discussions on new frontiers for SP, from managing demographic shifts to adapting to the digital and green transitions. #EconConf
🗓️ 13 February 2025
🔗 Register here: t.co/MRKxQq1GhL
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3) Nonetheless, low-wage workers in 🇫🇷 have no greater problems moving up the wage ladder than in other countries, but job mobility is low. #EconSky
3) Nonetheless, low-wage workers in 🇫🇷 have no greater problems moving up the wage ladder than in other countries, but job mobility is low. #EconSky
January 9, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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3) Nonetheless, low-wage workers in 🇫🇷 have no greater problems moving up the wage ladder than in other countries, but job mobility is low. #EconSky
3) Nonetheless, low-wage workers in 🇫🇷 have no greater problems moving up the wage ladder than in other countries, but job mobility is low. #EconSky
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2) The 🇫🇷 tax-ben system creates low-wage trap mechanisms on both the labour supply and demand side:
Workers have incentives to take up work at the MW, but net gains from further wage increases are low. For employers, the phase-out of exemptions makes raising wages beyond the MW costly.
2) The 🇫🇷 tax-ben system creates low-wage trap mechanisms on both the labour supply and demand side:
Workers have incentives to take up work at the MW, but net gains from further wage increases are low. For employers, the phase-out of exemptions makes raising wages beyond the MW costly.
January 9, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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2) The 🇫🇷 tax-ben system creates low-wage trap mechanisms on both the labour supply and demand side:
Workers have incentives to take up work at the MW, but net gains from further wage increases are low. For employers, the phase-out of exemptions makes raising wages beyond the MW costly.
2) The 🇫🇷 tax-ben system creates low-wage trap mechanisms on both the labour supply and demand side:
Workers have incentives to take up work at the MW, but net gains from further wage increases are low. For employers, the phase-out of exemptions makes raising wages beyond the MW costly.
🧵 1/3 - Released today, fascinating new #OECD working paper on low-wage employment in #France 🇫🇷
Using linked employer-employee data, survey data, and tax-ben modelling, it shows:
1) France's high minimum wage leads to a broad coverage and compresses the wage distribution;
doi.org/10.1787/8253...
Using linked employer-employee data, survey data, and tax-ben modelling, it shows:
1) France's high minimum wage leads to a broad coverage and compresses the wage distribution;
doi.org/10.1787/8253...
January 9, 2025 at 9:55 PM
🧵 1/3 - Released today, fascinating new #OECD working paper on low-wage employment in #France 🇫🇷
Using linked employer-employee data, survey data, and tax-ben modelling, it shows:
1) France's high minimum wage leads to a broad coverage and compresses the wage distribution;
doi.org/10.1787/8253...
Using linked employer-employee data, survey data, and tax-ben modelling, it shows:
1) France's high minimum wage leads to a broad coverage and compresses the wage distribution;
doi.org/10.1787/8253...
Mein geschätzter Kollege Ali Bargu präsentiert nächsten Montag, den 13. Januar, das neue OECD #Toolkit zur Bekämpfung von #Wohnungslosigkeit.
Der Workshop finded von 11h-12h15 digital (per Zoom) statt, organisiert vom #OECD Berlin Centre.
Zur Anmeldung geht's hier: events.oecd-berlin.de/358
Der Workshop finded von 11h-12h15 digital (per Zoom) statt, organisiert vom #OECD Berlin Centre.
Zur Anmeldung geht's hier: events.oecd-berlin.de/358
January 7, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Mein geschätzter Kollege Ali Bargu präsentiert nächsten Montag, den 13. Januar, das neue OECD #Toolkit zur Bekämpfung von #Wohnungslosigkeit.
Der Workshop finded von 11h-12h15 digital (per Zoom) statt, organisiert vom #OECD Berlin Centre.
Zur Anmeldung geht's hier: events.oecd-berlin.de/358
Der Workshop finded von 11h-12h15 digital (per Zoom) statt, organisiert vom #OECD Berlin Centre.
Zur Anmeldung geht's hier: events.oecd-berlin.de/358
„Consumption of red wine in #France has fallen by about 90 per cent since the 1970s, according to […] an industry association.
Total wine consumption, spanning reds, whites and rosés, is down more than 80 per cent in France since 1945“
on.ft.com/4gBSkPK
h/t @marginalrev.blogsky.venki.dev
Total wine consumption, spanning reds, whites and rosés, is down more than 80 per cent in France since 1945“
on.ft.com/4gBSkPK
h/t @marginalrev.blogsky.venki.dev
January 5, 2025 at 11:32 AM
„Consumption of red wine in #France has fallen by about 90 per cent since the 1970s, according to […] an industry association.
Total wine consumption, spanning reds, whites and rosés, is down more than 80 per cent in France since 1945“
on.ft.com/4gBSkPK
h/t @marginalrev.blogsky.venki.dev
Total wine consumption, spanning reds, whites and rosés, is down more than 80 per cent in France since 1945“
on.ft.com/4gBSkPK
h/t @marginalrev.blogsky.venki.dev
Academic writing is getting harder to read (or at least academic abstracts are)
www.economist.com/science-and-...
h/t to @marginalrev.blogsky.venki.dev
www.economist.com/science-and-...
h/t to @marginalrev.blogsky.venki.dev
December 26, 2024 at 9:41 AM
Academic writing is getting harder to read (or at least academic abstracts are)
www.economist.com/science-and-...
h/t to @marginalrev.blogsky.venki.dev
www.economist.com/science-and-...
h/t to @marginalrev.blogsky.venki.dev
2/ Accessibility differs widely across countries and family circumstances:
When out of work and in the bottom-income decile, more than 4 out of 5 single-person households reported receiving MIB in 🇦🇺 , 🇫🇷 , and 🇬🇧 , compared to 1 in 3 in 🇮🇹 .
When out of work and in the bottom-income decile, more than 4 out of 5 single-person households reported receiving MIB in 🇦🇺 , 🇫🇷 , and 🇬🇧 , compared to 1 in 3 in 🇮🇹 .
December 21, 2024 at 4:23 PM
2/ Accessibility differs widely across countries and family circumstances:
When out of work and in the bottom-income decile, more than 4 out of 5 single-person households reported receiving MIB in 🇦🇺 , 🇫🇷 , and 🇬🇧 , compared to 1 in 3 in 🇮🇹 .
When out of work and in the bottom-income decile, more than 4 out of 5 single-person households reported receiving MIB in 🇦🇺 , 🇫🇷 , and 🇬🇧 , compared to 1 in 3 in 🇮🇹 .
The city of #Paris is going to start greening the square in front of its main city hall, planting 90 trees and over other 20,000 plants from January 2025. What I hadn't realised is that the square was only pedestrianised in 1982 and had previously been used by cars.
www.paris.fr/pages/une-fo...
www.paris.fr/pages/une-fo...
December 15, 2024 at 10:40 PM
The city of #Paris is going to start greening the square in front of its main city hall, planting 90 trees and over other 20,000 plants from January 2025. What I hadn't realised is that the square was only pedestrianised in 1982 and had previously been used by cars.
www.paris.fr/pages/une-fo...
www.paris.fr/pages/une-fo...
🚨 We are hiring!
@OECD_Social is looking to hire Labour Market Economists / Policy Analysts - the vacancy is open until next Thursday, 24.11.
Please spread the word, retweet and apply! 🙏
https://oecd.taleo.net/careersection/ext/jobdetail.ftl?lang=en&job=15743
@OECD_Social is looking to hire Labour Market Economists / Policy Analysts - the vacancy is open until next Thursday, 24.11.
Please spread the word, retweet and apply! 🙏
https://oecd.taleo.net/careersection/ext/jobdetail.ftl?lang=en&job=15743
December 22, 2024 at 3:53 PM
🚨 We are hiring!
@OECD_Social is looking to hire Labour Market Economists / Policy Analysts - the vacancy is open until next Thursday, 24.11.
Please spread the word, retweet and apply! 🙏
https://oecd.taleo.net/careersection/ext/jobdetail.ftl?lang=en&job=15743
@OECD_Social is looking to hire Labour Market Economists / Policy Analysts - the vacancy is open until next Thursday, 24.11.
Please spread the word, retweet and apply! 🙏
https://oecd.taleo.net/careersection/ext/jobdetail.ftl?lang=en&job=15743
Die #Bundesregierung hat mich gerade in Deutschland willkommen geheißen, und mich auf die #COVID #Quarantäneregeln aufmerksam gemacht. 8 (!) Tage nach meiner Einreise aus Frankreich… 🤔
December 22, 2024 at 3:53 PM
Die #Bundesregierung hat mich gerade in Deutschland willkommen geheißen, und mich auf die #COVID #Quarantäneregeln aufmerksam gemacht. 8 (!) Tage nach meiner Einreise aus Frankreich… 🤔
Fully vaxxed, and feeling immensely grateful. #TeamBiontech
December 22, 2024 at 3:58 PM
Fully vaxxed, and feeling immensely grateful. #TeamBiontech
🚨 The tax-benefit team at @OECD_Social is looking to hire Economists to work on #taxes and #incomesupport and their role for household incomes, labour market participation, and public budgets. The vacancy will remain open until 30 June.
Please RT!...
Please RT!...
December 22, 2024 at 3:58 PM
🚨 The tax-benefit team at @OECD_Social is looking to hire Economists to work on #taxes and #incomesupport and their role for household incomes, labour market participation, and public budgets. The vacancy will remain open until 30 June.
Please RT!...
Please RT!...
Our @OECD Social Policy Division is looking to hire Junior Social Policy Analysts to work on #gender, #family, #housing and #homelessness, #disability and long-term #care. Applications are open until 13 June.
Please retweet and spread the word!...
Please retweet and spread the word!...
December 22, 2024 at 3:58 PM
Our @OECD Social Policy Division is looking to hire Junior Social Policy Analysts to work on #gender, #family, #housing and #homelessness, #disability and long-term #care. Applications are open until 13 June.
Please retweet and spread the word!...
Please retweet and spread the word!...
What a feeling! :) #VaccinesSaveLives
December 22, 2024 at 3:58 PM
What a feeling! :) #VaccinesSaveLives
The report gives an excellent overview of countries‘ #InheritanceTax systems and the (usually low) revenue they raise: around 0.5% of total tax revenue in Germany🇩🇪 and Switzerland🇨🇭, close to 1.5% in Belgium🇧🇪 and France🇫🇷
December 22, 2024 at 4:09 PM
The report gives an excellent overview of countries‘ #InheritanceTax systems and the (usually low) revenue they raise: around 0.5% of total tax revenue in Germany🇩🇪 and Switzerland🇨🇭, close to 1.5% in Belgium🇧🇪 and France🇫🇷