Postdoc position at the University of Lausanne for 3 years with Michael Grätz ✌️
The University of Lausanne has very good working conditions, beautiful landscapes and kind and supportive colleagues 🫶
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Postdoc position at the University of Lausanne for 3 years with Michael Grätz ✌️
The University of Lausanne has very good working conditions, beautiful landscapes and kind and supportive colleagues 🫶
Ask me if you want more information 👍
Looking for a PhD? Come to work with my friend and running mate Michael Grätz!
Very good working conditions, interesting project, great work environment, amazing supervisor 👏
Monopolies are not good.
But what about monopsonies where a (couple of) firm(s) is/are the only one(s) hiring a certain part of the labour market?
And what could we be do about it?
Estimates by
@OECD
show that roughly 10% of the employees face a highly concentrated (and thus monopsonic) labour market.
That's a considerable amount of workers!
(1)
https://oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/0ecab874-en/index.html?itemId=/content/component/0ecab874-en
It's around this time every afternoon when all the kids in my building decide to go crazy and start shouting and running around, while parents try to do whatever it takes to call them down.
This is my daily reminder that being childless is a great choice.
Just found this thing into the recruitment website of an employer.
Imagine a world where you need to put a stamp in your CV to certify that you actually do the job that you're paid for.
The Institute for Research on Poverty published this talk by David Card in 2013 called
Two things that I really liked about this:
- He highlights the importance of looking at the workplace (firms), as he and many others did in the next years, to understand labour market inequalities.
- He acknowledges that sociologists and anthropologists have built the bases of what economists would study later, especially (but not only) in terms of gender and racial inequalities.