Striking new paper @DrDaronAcemoglu, Alex He, and Daniel le Maire: Eclipse of Rent-Sharing: The Effects of Managers' Business Education on Wages and the Labor Share in 🇺🇸 + 🇩🇰. Managers with MBA ➡️ wages ⬇️ + labor share ⬇️nber.org/system/files/w…
Simon Jäger
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Simon Jäger
@simon_jaeger
Joined January 2014
- I am very excited to take on the role as CEO of @iza_bonn and work with the fantastic colleagues and network! Stay tuned for exciting updates! 🎉🪅We are excited to announce that @simon_jaeger will become CEO of IZA in September 2022. Our deepest thanks to Hilmar Schneider, who has successfully managed IZA for the past six years! newsroom.iza.org/en/archive/new…
- I'm very excited to join @Princeton in the spring, w/ joint appointment @PrincetonEcon and @PrincetonSPIA + the Industrial Relations Section! Very grateful to wonderful mentors, colleagues, students + staff @MITEcon for an incredible time! Looking forward to the next adventure!
- First day of school today for me! Very excited for my official start @iza_bonn today! Looking forward to working with the fantastic people here, in our network, and beyond!
- How do unions and collective bargaining work around the world? And how do they affect the wage structure? A new paper with Suresh Naidu @snaidunl and Benjamin Schoefer @Schoefer_B out as @nberpubs WP and prepared for the Handbook of Labor Economics. Thread below. 👇
- Worum geht es beim diesjährigen Nobelpreis für Wirtschaftswissenschaften? Eine sehr kurze Zusammenfassung auf deutsch. 🧵BREAKING NEWS: The 2021 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded with one half to David Card and the other half jointly to Joshua D. Angrist and Guido W. Imbens. #NobelPrize
- Curious about how to square strong worker representation and unions with high productivity, low unemp + large manufacturing share? New overview article (w/ @shakked_noy and @Schoefer_B), “The German Model of Industrial Relations: A Primer,” sheds light on 🇩🇪 labor institutions🧵
- Ich freue mich sehr auf einen konstruktiven und offenen Austausch zu ökonomischer Forschung und Wirtschaftspolitik mit Minister Robert Habeck, @sven_giegold und @bartsche und dem hervorragenden Team des @BMWK @BMWK_Econ als externer wissenschaftlicher Berater.
- Ich kann es einfach nicht fassen. Homburg wünscht sich neue Nürnberger Prozesse herbei, mit “den Virologen” in der ersten Reihe. Als Kollege i.w.S. frage ich mich immer wieder: war diese Geisteshaltung, die hier durchscheint, früher auch schon wahrnehmbar und wurde geduldet?
- I am super happy to have been selected as a #SloanFellow!! Research is a highly social process and I'm immensely grateful to coauthors, mentors, colleagues, and everyone who has supported me along the way. 🥳🎉🥳Introducing… the winners of this year’s Sloan Research Fellowship! These extraordinary researchers represent some of the most exciting young minds working today—and we are thrilled to support them. Meet the winners here: sloan.org/fellowships/20… #SloanFellow
- Excited to be on @capitalMagazin "Top 40 under 40" 🇩🇪 list. And surprised given their focus on a production factor other than labor! 💵👩🏭 My goal is to stay on the list for the remaining 12 years of my eligibility. @iza_bonn
- Dieses Wochenende in der @faznet @FAZ_Wirtschaft: eine Seite zu meiner Arbeit, mit Stimmen von Wegbegleitern und Kollegen! Ganz herzlichen Dank an @alexwulfers für das Gespräch und das Porträt!
- New working paper on causal effects of codetermination: "Voice at Work". @jarkko_harju, @Schoefer_B and I study the 1991 introduction of a worker right to shared governance in Finnish firms with 150+ employees. economics.mit.edu/files/21196
