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Headlines today trumpet the record high number of job vacancies in the UK. Labor market tightness, though, is only just back to pre-pandemic levels. It's still early days, but the recent data can also be read as an outward shift of the Beveridge curve, which is never good news.

So, here we have a Brent councilor publicly encouraging people to break traffic laws, on the grounds that he found a way to get away with it…

Good to see UCL contributions from @lorrainedearden IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education & Society & Fabien Postel-Vinay UCL Economics to Universities Policy Engagement Network (UPEN) Universities UK International report on Ukrainian recovery & reconstruction, following UCL European Institute efforts to map & mobilise expertise

Slightly random weekend tweet for those interested in guitars out there: I had never played a Rick before, came across this reasonably priced beauty, and now I can’t put it down! It’s awesome and super versatile. Why aren’t these guitars more popular?

Thanks to everyone who participated in the 3rd CRC TR 224 EPoS Bonn-Mannheim Workshop on Labor Markets Department of Economics, University of Mannheim. We saw a lot of great research on the frontier of labor market research. Thanks to everyone for the great presentations and the great discussions! Effrosyni (Efi) Adamopoulou Andreas Gulyas

Recently accepted at EJ: ‘Labour Mobility and Earnings in the UK, 1992-2017,’ by Fabien Postel-Vinay, Alireza Sepahsalari doi.org/10.1093/ej/uea… Alireza Sepahsalari Fabien Postel-Vinay Royal Economic Society @OUPEconomics #EconTwitter #OpenAccess

Very nice chat over coffee + cake with some 3rd-year UCL Economics students. Really interesting and helpful to hear their feedback and ideas to take our BSc programme forward. Looking forward to another session next week!

Celebrating LGBTQ+ month with the UCL Economics crowd at the Cock Tavern!

Night is getting a bit out of control, but really great vibes!

This new monthly data release from the Philadelphia Fed tracks the rate at which U.S. workers transition from one employer to another. bit.ly/4aKBYB8

Huge congratulations to my brilliant colleagues Raffaella Giacomini and Vasiliki Skreta for winning the The Econometric Society 's first Haavelmo prize and Arrow prize, respectively! econometricsociety.org/society/news/A…

For all labor market flow stats enthusiasts out there, this series is now live, thanks to the Philadelphia Fed philadelphiafed.org/surveys-and-da…

Featured: Public sector wages may be somewhat higher compared to private sector wages -but is there really a long-time pay gap? Fabien Postel-Vinay UCL Economics explains what points to consider in this comparison: ‘Does it pay to be a public-sector employee?’ wol.iza.org/articles/does-…

62 speakers, ~100 attendees from around the world, 3 parallel sessions, 4 plenaries over two days. Our alumni answered the call in amazing numbers! This UCL Economics PhD alumni conference is a resounding academic success, and a moving reminder of how much we all love our department!

Happy birthday to two amazing, wonderful colleagues!

NEW: "Measuring Employer-to-Employer Reallocation" By Shigeru Fujita, Giuseppe Moscarini, and Fabien Postel-Vinay (Fabien Postel-Vinay), in AEA Journals Macro: economics.yale.edu/research/measu…

"With your convictions and mine"? The French word "conviction" doesn't have the double meaning that it has in English... Still, interesting choice of words.

The Fujita/Moscarini/Postel-Vinay series of Employer-to-Employer transitions is now available on FRED. Check it out! Many thanks to St. Louis Fed and Serdar Birinci in particular for helping make that happen! fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FMPSA fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FMPSA3MA

Exciting news! Thanks to alumna Wendy Fung, the Department of Economics has a new £10,000 'Y.S and Rose Fung' bursary for MRes students. Alice Avenale is the first recipient, starting this September. Read more about the award at bit.ly/4jLegZd