"Dual vocational training, which combines structured learning on-the-job with classroom training, leads to certified skills that are relevant to employers and portable in the labor market." - Werner Eichhorst from IZA wol.iza.org/articles/does-… #learningatworkweek Learning at Work Week

This is also relevant to the labor share debate: much of US labor share decline was in manufacturing, but import-adjusted manufacturing concentration has not risen -> hard for rising product mkt concentration to explain declining labor share (as we note in Stansbury/Summers BPEA)

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS 📢 ℹ️ The 2nd LISER-IAB Conference on #DigitalTransformation and the Future of Work will take place on September 20-21, 2021. 🆕 Deadline extension: June 4th, 2021 🔎 liser.lu/?type=news&id=…

A new article by Paul Osterman of MIT Sloan School of Management updates our understanding of employer-provided training through a 2020 survey of working adults. Results show disparities in employer-provided training by race, ethnicity, & educational attainment. #retraining doi.org/10.1177/001979…

❗️We're offering a Digit PhD studentship as part of the economics PhD programme University of Sussex Business School ❗️ We invite research proposals to examine the impacts of digital technology adoption on the labour market and firms. ⏰Deadline: 26th July. More here: sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-fun…

AIRAANZ 2022 Conference, 9-11 Feb 2022 - "Work Not As Usual". Call for papers out now! Submit session proposals by 15 August and paper abstracts including for PhD/HDR sessions by 15 Sept. Hosted by The University of Sydney Business School. Submissions/more info: business.sydney.edu.au/events/2022/ai… AIRAANZ

The deadline for abstract submission to the 40th Labour Process Conference has been extended to November 3rd. The conference will be held in Padua, Italy, from the 21st to the 23rd, April 2022. Upload your abstract here: conference-service.com/ilpc-2022/acce… Stato&Mercato

In the long-run, the real pay of workers tends to follow labour productivity. Has pay now become “decoupled” from productivity? @andreas_teichgr and John Van Reenen Programme on Innovation and Diffusion Read: ow.ly/xa3L50GO93Z

Special Issue Labour Economics on “The Impact of COVID-19 on the Labour Market” Editors: Abi Adams-Prassl and Carlos Carrillo-Tudela Submission deadline: February 15, 2022 Go to 'Submit your paper' on the Labour Economics website and select ‘VSI: COVID-19 & Labour Market’.

In_equality Conference 2022 (06-08 April) reminder: Submissions close next week, on 30 Nov 2021! So hand in that abstract on your inequality-related research topic now. Full call for papers & abstract submission on the conference website: inequality-conference.de #InequalityConf

The IAAEU and the Chair of Personnel Economics at Trier University would like to remind you about the 14th Workshop on Labour Economics, taking place on 7–8 April 2022. Further information is available on iaaeg.de/index.php?opti…

Deadline!⏰ Noch bis 1. Februar können sich junge, engagierte Menschen, die studieren möchten oder bereits studieren, bei uns für ein #Stipendium bewerben! Alle Infos und Zugangsvoraussetzungen zur finanziellen und ideellen Förderung gibt es unter: boeckler.de/de/stipendium-…

RWI Leibniz-Institut Spannende Doktorand:innenstelle am RWI, bei der man direkt mit dem Vorstand und ansonsten - für die, die das nicht abschreckend finden ;-), mit mir arbeiten darf. Z.B. im DFG Projekt mit Hendrik Schmitz (Paderborn), Oliver Falck (ifo Institut) und M_Herter oder ...

The interdisciplinary Summer School in Higher Education Research and Science Studies (HERSS) will take place at Center for Higher Education, TU Dortmund University in Germany from 26 to 30 September 2022. The topic is Transformation of Higher Education Liudvika Leisyte Arbeitskreis Wissenschafts- und Hochschulforschung

Hi EconTwitter! Do you have a working paper in public econ (broadly defined) that you’d like feedback on? I’m making my Ph.D. students write referee reports in my grad public class If you want your paper to be 1 of them, let me know! Will send you their reports & mine

Don’t forget to save the date for #ILPC2022! It is on 21st -23rd April 2022 online and at the Università di Padova ILPC

Interesting combination of Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and IV estimation! Stata command and use-cases in the Appendix: #DataScience #Econometrics #Causalinference journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Do you teach that least squares is BLUE? News flash: It is BUE (best unbiased)! This paper extends the Gauss-Markov Theorem, dropping the restriction to linear estimators, establishing a new finite sample variance lower bound for unbiased linear regression econometricsociety.org/publications/e…

Read my latest #research on #technology, #knowledge and worker #skills, The struggle of small firms to retain high-skill workers: job duration and the importance of knowledge intensity. It was just published with Springer Nature in Small Business Economics here: rdcu.be/cIkvT