🚨 We are hiring Universität Konstanz! Postdoc position, 3 years or longer, in labor, education, or related fields. We offer a great research environment, and It's not just a great place to work, but also to have fun! Apply here econjobmarket.org/positions/9967 cc: Christina Felfe Sofía Fernández-Guerrico

Job alert: Would you like to join our research unit ZEW? Opportunity for 6-Year Postdoc w Tenure Option in Health and Labour/Education #JMC aeaweb.org/joe/listing.ph… If you have questions don't hesitate to contact me, Nicolas R. Ziebarth, or any other ZEW-colleague #EconTwitter

New working paper out! Melanie Arntz, Sebastian Findeisen Oliver Schlenker and I use a novel 🇩🇪 dataset that links firm and worker questionnaires with social security data and allows us to document how the latest wave of technological progress has changed the workplace and worker health

great presentation by Oliver Schlenker at #inequalityconf showing works councils in Germany affect automation through leading to higher-quality investment and rising productivity, as well as greater retention of the workforce and higher wage sharing.

Melanie Arntz Sebastian Findeisen Stephan Maurer and Oliver Schlenker discuss how technological progress in the workplace affects workers who do manual and non-manual tasks. ow.ly/rvwV50RoVne

The appreciation of the Swiss Frank resulted in increased shortages of nurses in hospitals at the German Swiss border with significant negative impact on health outcomes. Olivier Schlenker at #ESPE2024

Leveraging Swiss Franc Stabilization to generate a large positive shock to skilled nurses’ wages in Switzerland, Oliver Schlenker finds German nurses left German hospitals and crossed border to work. Mortality for elderly/vulnerable German patients rose. Did CH gain? Stay tuned.

A new study by #ZEW economists Oliver Schlenker and Melanie Arntz shows that new digital technologies worsen the #health of workers, but not of employees in office jobs. #Digitalisation Read more at 👇 zew.de/PM9065-1/?twt=1

What a week - two beautiful cities, two amazing conferences. Big shout out to the organizers of #ESPE2024 #EuHEA2024! And thanks for the great feedback on my job market paper showing the severe consequences of labor scarcity in healthcare.

Oliver Schlenker (Oliver Schlenker) in the Brownbag Seminar at KOF, ETH Zurich (KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH Zürich) this week talking on: The Deadly Consequences of Labor Scarcity: Evidence from German Hospitals sites.google.com/view/oliversch… Thanx Oli for the interesting talk! #Research #Economics #Health

🚨 New Working Paper 🆕 Discussions about new disruptive technologies often have a tone of inevitability. For example, it is popular to attempt to estimate the number of jobs which will be automated in the future, because technology is expected to advance at a certain rate. 1/

In a new paper (🧑‍🏭 vs 🤖 ) w/ @DauthEcon and Oliver Schlenker , we provide new evidence how work councils, a form of shop-floor representation with entrenched rights to act on behalf of a firm’s workforce, have shaped the impacts of automation on workers in Germany. 3/

🎆 Job alert 🚨 I offer a 3 years PhD position (75%) at TH Nürnberg founded by a DFG project on labormarket outcomes of disabled/disadvantaged youths. - Close connection with @iab_news - No teaching obligation - More details below Application deadline 15.Sep Please spread😊🙏

Manual workers exposed to a more rapidly digitalising workplace report a higher number of sick days. Melanie Arntz Sebastian Findeisen Stephan Maurer Oliver Schlenker CentrePiece magazine cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/…

Panels auf dem #wsihf2024 1⃣ Politics of Inequality Nadja Wehl TobiasTober OliverSchlenker 2⃣ TanjaKlenk SamuelGreef ThomasGerlinger Julia Bläsius 3⃣ JanBehringer ThiloJanssen Dierk Hirschel 4⃣ Johannes Kiess @bettikohlrausch LeonKünstermann Infos + Anmeldung➡️ wsi-herbstforum.de

Panel 1 #wsihf2024 Oliver Schlenker Politics of Inequality zur Rolle der #Mitbestimmung in Zeiten des technologischen Wandels. Er hat die Wirkung von Robotisierung auf Beschäftigte in Firmen mit/ohne #Betriebsrat untersucht und zeigt: #Mitbestimmung wirkt positiv wsi-herbstforum.de

Impressions from the legendary Ski and Labor Economics Seminar (SKILS) 2025 in #Laax, #Switzerland. Huge thanks to the organisers and all participants for the amazing talks and fantastic skiing! #EconSki #EconTwitter

Still hyped from having presented my job market paper in Winter Wonderland to such an amazing crowd of researchers - among whom was Nobel laureate Josh Angrist Josh Angrist! ⛷️🏂🎿 Big shout-out to the organizers Christina Felfe and @pia_schilling!

What a blast! We had a wonderful, inspiring & FUN 3rd Annual Conference at ifo Fürth 🤩🤓 🥳 Fantastic keynotes by Massimo Morelli (Università Bocconi), Johanna Rickne (Stockholm University) & Michele Belot (Cornell University) as well as many many great presentations and very nice poster session🚀