The new PIAAC on adult skills is out. Nordic countries improved the most but skill levels appear to have deteriorated in Central Eastern Europe, New Zealand, South Korea. However, data quality issues are reported mostly in countries with skill declines. Serious caution required🚨

Everything you wanted to know about academic reviewing but were afraid to ask

In a recent NewTechnologyWork&Employment article, Zuzanna Kowalik, Piotr Lewandowski, and @Kaczmarczyk_cmr present their study on delivery and taxi platform workers, showing that migrants face lower job quality—both objectively and subjectively—than Polish workers.👉doi.org/10.1111/ntwe.1…

If only the US had strong and inclusive Western institutions that prevent state capture by the elites and ensure the continuity of a social contract. SAD!

While IZA's record of shocking announcements is already unparalleled among European research institutes, the news of its closing down by the end of 2025 is suprising and sad. Thank you and good luck to all the researchers and staff who put their heart and effort into IZA!

Let's be frank, in the last few years, IZA was mainly a dissemination channel of working papers. But that dissemination was incredible. Of the 18 IZA papers I have, the average no. of downloads is above 2000 each. Replacing such an outreach will be super hard, if possible at all

A new multimodel assessment of distributional effects of ETS and ETS2 by ZEW_en LISER's Labour Market department IBS Warsaw 👇 We show the ETS extension to buildings and road transport can widen household income inequality unless carbon revenues are distributed as transfers projectwelar.eu/new-welar-stud…

Friday March 14 is the submission deadline for WeLaR conference on the effects of digitalisation, globalisation, climate change and demographic shifts on labour markets and welfare states. Brussels 12 June, keynote by Francesco Vona. 👉 projectwelar.eu/event/call-for…

New paper: 🇺🇦 war refugees in 🇵🇱 who experience a greater task degradation - perform more routine-intensive jobs in 🇵🇱 than they did in 🇺🇦 - were more likely to plan to return to 🇺🇦 by 2023, particularly those who initially, in 2022, did not plan to return ibs.org.pl/en/publication…

In this paper with @karolmado and Albert Park we develop task-based, country-specific AI exposures for over 100 countries. We find large differences in workers' exposure to AI across development, largely driven by ICT intensity and human capital ibs.org.pl/en/publication…

Friday, 30 May, is the paper submission deadline for the "Jobs, Skills, and Productivity in Structural Transformations" conference of the ELMI Network in Warsaw on 7-8 October 2025. Anna Salomons and Michel Serafinelli are the keynote speakers. 👉 ibs.org.pl/en/news/elmi-2…

The final straight of WeLaR: excellent conference with Francesco Vona's great keynote on the labour market impacts of the green transition. The WeLaR peloton, initially comprising four cyclists, has been reduced to just me battling the climbs and cobbles of Brabantse Pijl