"none of this would have been possible in any place other than Berkeley. There is in Berkeley a unique combination of total intellectual freedom, deep focus on mentorship and transmission, and exceptional sense of community and collegiality that makes people thrive."

TLDR: Asking for what you want pays off! Very happy to see my JMP out in print 🎊

So, I have said this before, but this time it is REALLY the LAST NBER ECONOMIC MOBILITY Conference 9/27/2024! A great conference on economic mobility, broadly defined. All fields welcome, and Jr. folks should definitely apply! Submissions due 7/18. nber.org/calls-papers-a….

How elastic is aggregate labor supply at the extensive (employment) margin? ``Reservation Raises: The Aggregate Labor Supply Curve at the Extensive Margin,'' from Preston Mui and Benjamin Schoefer offers Nonparametric evidence: restud.com/reservation-ra…

Thrilled to share that I've been honored with the #In_equality Research Award 2024 by the Universität Konstanz Cluster of Excellence Politics of Inequality. A heartfelt thank you to the committee for acknowledging our work and to everyone who's been part of this journey! #InequalityConf

Habemus cancellarium! Our wonderful colleague and former Haas Dean Rich Lyons will be leading UC Berkeley. Great news for our great university. Thank you, Rich.

Very excited to be among the new cohort of fellows at Roosevelt Institute , and looking forward to many interesting interactions!

REMINDER: Gregor Jarosch, Benjamin Schoefer , Isaac Sorkin and I are organizing a Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics (SITE) session on the Micro and Macro of Labor Markets on 8/6-8/7 August 6 at Stanford. Submission due 5/15 here: economics.stanford.edu/site/paper-sub… (scroll down)

How has the pandemic shift to working from home endured - and why? Join us Fri. 4/26 at 1PM for a lecture by Steven J. Davis of Hoover Institution and Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, who will examine the trends and impacts of work-at-home for pay, productivity, and innovation. REGISTER: tinyurl.com/big-shift

Looking forward to the Macro Labor Workshop at Berkeley today and the great line-up of speakers: eml.berkeley.edu/~schoefer/scho… eml.berkeley.edu/~schoefer/MLC/ Hopefully the first version of a more regular event going forward! Berkeley Economics IRLE UC Berkeley SocialScienceMatrix

I’m very honored to receive this. Thank you to all my students for being such joys to work with!

Call for papers: The Micro and Macro of Labor Markets at SITE / Stanford August 6-7 Submit your papers here: economics.stanford.edu/site/paper-sub… Deadline next week: May 15 Decisions/notifications by June 1 = quick turnaround! Org: Sydnee Caldwell, Gregor Jarosch, Isaac Sorkin, I

Deadline for paper submissions today!

We’re thrilled to welcome Andreas I. Mueller to our department Economics at Zurich, who just joined us as Professor of Macroeconomics and Labor Markets. Great to have you on board Andi!

Dieses Wochenende in der Frankfurter Allgemeine FAZ Wirtschaft: eine Seite zu meiner Arbeit, mit Stimmen von Wegbegleitern und Kollegen! Ganz herzlichen Dank an Alexander Wulfers für das Gespräch und das Porträt!

Very excited to launch the PSE Stone center on Global Wealth Dynamics, a hub to train the future generations of inequality scholars in Europe and globally!

Really honored to have been part of this great academic workshop and to have received the junior prize in finance from Banque de France et TSE. This was a fantastic day. I learned a lot from all the presentations and conversations. (And thanks to Agnès Bénassy-Quéré for the cool pic!)

Macro-labor workshop in Konstanz next week! Looking forward to a great program.👇

Thank you all for contributing to an inspiring workshop! Carlos Carrillo-Tudela Sebastian Findeisen

#QJE May 2024, #3, “Worker Beliefs about Outside Options,” by Jäger (Simon Jäger), Roth, Roussille (Nina Roussille), and Schoefer (Benjamin Schoefer): doi.org/10.1093/qje/qj…