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Simon Wiederhold
@simonwiederhold.bsky.social
Professor of Labor Economics at Halle University & Senior Research Advisor at Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH)
affiliated w/ ifo, CESifo, IZA & ROA

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/simonwiederhold
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🆕Working Paper🚨

Training or Retiring? How Labor Markets Adjust to Trade and Technology Shocks📒
w/ A.Bertermann, @dauthecon.bsky.social & @suedekum.bsky.social

🤖 Robots ➡️ ⬆️training & ⬆️early retirement
🌏 Imports ➡️ ⬇️training & ⬆️early r.
🌎 Exports ➡️ ⬆️training & ⬇️e.r.

www.ifo.de/DocDL/cesifo...

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November 11, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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November 10, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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🎙️ Check out the ifo podcast on childcare shortages in Germany, where I was a guest.

Grateful to research this topic with Marina Krauß, @lergetporer.bsky.social, @fpeter.bsky.social, @simonwiederhold.bsky.social, Fabian Mierisch & Guido Schwerdt.

Link 👇

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November 10, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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Hi all, please spread the word and we hope everyone can make good use of this new data drop: cmfdata.org

The full surviving establishment-level Census of Manufactures manuscripts and digitized data from 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880!
Historical Census of Manufactures Microdata - Historical Census of Manufactures Microdata
CMFdata.org
November 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Förderinitiative zur Sicherung gefährdeter Datenbestände und zur #Datenresilienz: Die DFG stellt bis 2027 Mittel für Maßnahmen bereit, durch die Datensätze und Forschungsergebnisse aus Repositorien im Ausland für die deutsche/europäische Forschung gesichert werden können. www.dfg.de/de/foerderun...
Förderinitiative zum Sichern gefährdeter Datenbestände und zur Datenresilienz 2025 bis 2027
www.dfg.de
November 3, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Dropping a beta version of this page while everyone is up and processing baseball!

This tool lets you search the full text of papers from the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal series, and over 30,000 NBER working papers.

paulgp.com/econlit-pipe...
Economics Literature Search
Full-text search across 15,000+ papers from top economics journals and NBER working papers. Track how empirical methods have evolved over time.
paulgp.com
November 2, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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🔍 Check out this video from the 4th edition of our Workshop on Field Experiments in Economics and Business, co-organized with @lergetporer.bsky.social, @fpeter.bsky.social, and @simonwiederhold.bsky.social 🫶

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GW1...

📢 Next edition will take place on September 7-8, 2026 📆✏️
Workshop on Field Experiments in Economics and Business 2025
YouTube video by TUM Campus Heilbronn
www.youtube.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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🚨New publication alert🚨

I'm thrilled Economics of Education Review has just published my work w/ @abbyfrancis.bsky.social:

"School enrollment shifts five years after the pandemic"

Abstract below, but read the next few posts for the story told via a handful of graphs.

doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...
October 24, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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📢 New working paper alert! 📢

Super happy to share our new working paper, „The Demand for Economic Narratives“, with my great co-authors Sebastian Blesse, Klaus Gründler, and @philippheil.bsky.social.

Check out the summary thread by Philipp below👇🏻🧵

@ifoeducation.bsky.social
@cesifo.org
October 24, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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Unser wichtigster Gradmesser der bundeslandspezifischen Entwicklung. Leider nur alle 6 Jahre.

Extrem wichtige Zahlen. Sie sind ein Desaster.

Die Bildungsministerkonferenz dazu: „Licht und Schatten im IQB-Bildungstrend 2024“😯🤷
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October 17, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Join us!

@iwh-halle.bsky.social and @uni-magdeburg.de are hiring an AP in Labor Economics!

Focus: Effects of AI and new technologies on workers & firms.

No German required.

Enjoy an outstanding research environment in Magdeburg & Halle – come see for yourself!

🔗 Full ad: tinyurl.com/28ko5wty
Assistant Professor (W1) in Labor Economics
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October 15, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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If you are on the market this year, join us for advice! Looking forward to it!
📢 #EJME virtual workshop II
Join @david-schindler.de
🗓️Thurs, Oct 16 @15:30 CEST
ℹ️ Pitching your paper, advice on behaviour, things to say during interviews, fly-outs & Negotiating offers, contracts PLUS exploding offers
Registration: bit.ly/42cS3gX
@eayeconomists.bsky.social @resmedia.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Wie müssen sich Lernen und Unterrichten verändern in Zeiten von KI und Niedergang traditioneller Industrien?

🎙️ Mein Interview in der Welt darüber, was die aktuellen Transformationsprozesse für die Bildung bedeuten.

www.welt.de/politik/deut...
Zukunft des Lernens: „Testpersonen schneiden bei sprachlichen Aufgaben bereits ab Anfang 30 schlechter ab als Jüngere“ - WELT
Wie müssen sich das Lernen und das Unterrichten verändern in Zeiten von Künstlicher Intelligenz und dem Niedergang traditioneller Industrien? Ludger Wößmann ist Bildungsökonom am Ifo-Institut und erkl...
www.welt.de
October 14, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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WOW, terrific news for @econ.uzh.ch and the wider European community 🤩🤩🤩 Congrats!
We are thrilled to welcome Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee as the new Lemann Foundation Professors to our department, beginning in the summer of 2026.
October 10, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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🚨 Now out in Journal of Human Resources:

⛪️ Can Schools Change Religious Attitudes?
Evidence from German State Reforms of Compulsory Religious Education

w/ @benjaminarold.bsky.social & Larissa Zierow

👉 Religious education in school affects adult lives

🔗 jhr.uwpress.org/content/earl...

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October 10, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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In Zeiten von ständigen Transformationen sollten wir Bildung als Befähigung zu stetigem Wandel verstehen.

Mein Einleitungsvortrag in das Bildungspolitische Forum 2025 des @leibnizbildung.bsky.social

Livestream: www.youtube.com/@Leibniz_bil...

www.leibniz-bildung.de/veranstaltun...
October 1, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Problems now, bigger ones ahead.
September 27, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Today I spent a wonderful day visiting the @iabnews.bsky.social, invited by Bernd Fitzenberger and Silke Anger 🤓🙏

Inspiring discussions and a very interactive seminar, lots of fun! 🫶

Thanks for organizing, @caspalh.bsky.social & @demirecon.bsky.social 💪🥳

@ifoeducation.bsky.social
@cesifo.org
September 18, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Come to the #VfS panel on #OpenScience with Severine Toussaert, @leventneyse.bsky.social @jrgptrs.bsky.social @larsvil.bsky.social . Looking forward to the discussion.
[2] 15/09 | 5:00 PM — Panel: Open Science – Increasing Research Transparency in Economics
Featuring ZBW, Jörg Ankel-Peters, Jan Marcus, Severine Toussaert, Lars Villhuber, Levent Neyse
#OpenScience #VfS_Conf2025
@wisocologne.bsky.social
September 15, 2025 at 6:39 AM
It was so great having you all at our workshop! Can't wait for the anniversary edition next year...
September 12, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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Ich freue mich schon riesig auf das
🚨Bildungspolitische Forum 2025🚨
in das ich in diesem Jahr einführen darf!

Es geht um
➡️Bildung in Zeiten von Transformation und beruflichem Wandel⬅️

Im Video reiße ich schon mal die Themen an, um die es geht:
👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfuA...
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LERNBPF25 - Bildung in Zeiten von Transformation und beruflichem Wandel - Prof. Dr. Ludger Wößmann
YouTube video by Leibniz-Forschungsnetzwerk Bildungspotenziale
www.youtube.com
September 11, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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🚨 85% (!) der Erwachsenen sind für ein Mindestalter von 16 Jahren für Social Media.
Selbst unter den Jugendlichen ist eine relative Mehrheit dafür.

👉 Dies und mehr im neuen ifo Bildungsbarometer 2025:
www.ifo.de/fakten/2025-...
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September 9, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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📢Our CESifo Conference on Economics of Education is about to start!🤩

This will be so exciting!!!🥳

🔗https://www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/event/2025-09-05/cesifo-area-conference-economics-education-2025

@raffasadun.bsky.social @sandramcnally.bsky.social @christinafelfe.bsky.social @singhabhi.bsky.social
September 5, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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"Skills and Earnings: A Multidimensional Perspective on Human Capital"

Final version now out in Vol. 17 of the Annual Review of Economics (Open Access):

www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
September 1, 2025 at 7:05 AM