The communication sector is changing: women increasingly dominate the workforce. Johanna Rickne, economics professor at Stockholm University, warns of potential downsides like lower wages and status, common in other "feminized" fields. Read the interview here: magasink.se/2024/03/forska…

Forskningsinstitutet ETUI har just publicerat en bok om AI, samhället och arbetsmarknaden i ett urval av EU-länder. Jag har skrivit kapitlet om Sverige, som fokuserar på fackligt inflytande över AI. Boken och de enskilda kapitlen finns gratis här: etui.org/publications/a…

Working on collective bargaining issues? Why not submit a paper to our Industrial Relations special issue?

Teknikföretagen Unionen @FacketKommunal Tillbaka efter fikapaus. Dags för Daron Acemoglu (professor vid Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Han är en av världens mest ansedda forskare i nationalekonomi och har framför allt studerat sambanden mellan teknologisk utveckling, välstånd och jämlikhet. #maktochvalstand24

Konferanse hos Arena Idé om partene, politikken og produktiviteten 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

You'd think unions wouldn't matter any more in the #USA given the decline in membership. You'd be wrong. Find out more in my VoxEU blog with Professor Danny Blanchflower economist & fisherman here: cepr.org/voxeu/columns/… UCL Social Research Institute (SRI) UCL Sociology Network UCL Economics

Alt det morsomme man får holde på med som forsker🙏🏼 Besøk på Vrije universitet forrige uke.

Her er hele arbeidet til professor Ragnar Nymoen om valutakurser: normetrics.no/wp-content/upl…

Worker Representatives on German works councils are positively selected. When blue-collar representatives are elected, they reduce layoffs, consistent with workers' preferences, from Julian Budde, Thomas Dohmen, Simon Jäger, and Simon Trenke nber.org/papers/w32740

Happy to contribute to the final 2024 edition of Industrial Relations! Explored the impact of unions on low pay in Norway.

⁦⁩Innspill i debatten om det høye sykefraværet i Norge, og svar til Arnstein Mykletun, som i ⁦Aftenposten⁩ gir IA-avtalen skylda. Vår påstand: Sykefravær og utenforskap må sees i sammenheng, og partssamarbeid er løsningen - ikke problemet. aftenposten.no/meninger/debat…

Out today! The final issue of Industrial Relations for 2024. Download 3 of the 5 issues free via #OpenAccess here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/1468232x/2… IRLE UC Berkeley Wiley Business

IWPLMS conference in Copenhagen. @AnnaIlsoee on collective bargaining in the platform economy. @Kristinjesnes

For everyone interested in wage formation, attend the Nordic Economic Policy Review Conference in Stockholm October 24. Nordregio ui.ungpd.com/Events/943e2fb…

Attending the 39th Conference of the Italian Association of Labour Economics (AIEL) taking place at Unina Federico II in Naples.

New article! I explore why taxi platform drivers in Oslo take the gig. I find that they see it as a "step up" compared to previous and other available jobs, and discuss what this tells us about platforms and the Norwegian labor market. In Acta Sociologica journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

David Card from UC Berkeley held a great presentation of the AKM model framework at the AIEL conference at Unina Federico II 👏🏼

An extremely insightful day filled with research and perspectives on wage formation in the Nordic countries. Thanks Nordregio for organizing!

Hadde en veldig interessant diskusjon med Daniel om maktforhold i arbeidsmarkedet hos Arena idé for et par uker siden. Mulig å se i etterkant for den som er interessert!

Demand for union membership is price sensitive. Tax subsidies increase take up. In Norway the effects on union density are large. Download the paper via Open Access sciencedirect.com/science/articl… UCL Social Research Institute (SRI) UCL Economics UCL Sociology Network