RT @[email protected]

What would happen if we prohibited part-time jobs?

@[email protected], a labor and macroeconomist on the market,
https://www.paulinecarry.com
gives the answer in her fantastic JMP:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xz-MerkI1pnNxaCWmJ_XfkjSo8YubQj0/view
She studies a 2014 reform in France that required jobs to offer at least 24h/week.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Schoefer_B/status/1590725502377263104

Have just realised that #academics can use @ORCID_Org to
#verify themselves.

Just include your full mastodon link (like this: https://mas.to/@marekmcgann) in the "Websites and Social Links" section in ORCID, then include link to your ORCID record in your Mastodon profile.

Hurray for distributed digital identities!

We are hiring at Sao Paulo School of Economics! #econjobmarket

We invite applications for full-time assistant professor positions. We seek applicants working in any field of economics. Applicants working in environmental economics and macroeconomics are particularly encouraged to apply.

Apply here: https://econjobmarket.org/positions/9005

A #NewPaperAlert —> Just published, the single most up-to-date and complete review of the literature on the #economics of #crime that I've seen.

Broadly: Immigration reduces per capita crime rates because immigrants typically have lower propensity toward criminal acts. The crime that is typically increased by immigration is crime *against immigrants*.

By Paolo Pinotti and Sandra Rozo —> https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789909333.00015

This upcoming research #conference in Kingston will feature so many themes in economic development.
https://twitter.com/YaleRISE/status/1582765102788333571

I really don’t think this has been amplified enough: the deadline was extended to end-of-day Nov 12 (11:59pm EST). So there’s still time to submit! Will be a good group, and travel is funded for accepted papers.