Professor of economics, currently Head of Department @EconUCL and Research Director, @TheIFS. Father of 2. Old sea dog & guitar enthusiast. Opinions are my own.
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 https://t.co/goi7NkNh62
The Fujita/Moscarini/Postel-Vinay series of Employer-to-Employer transitions is now available on FRED. Check it out! Many thanks to @stlouisfed and @SerdarBirinci9 in particular for helping make that happen!
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"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.
Congratulations, President @realDonaldTrump. Ready to work together as we did for four years. With your convictions and mine. With respect and ambition. For more peace and prosperity.
NEW: "Measuring Employer-to-Employer Reallocation"
By Shigeru Fujita, Giuseppe Moscarini, and Fabien Postel-Vinay (@fpvinay), in @AEAjournals Macro: https://t.co/MtbIxsot3u
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 @EconUCL PhD alumni conference is a resounding academic success, and a moving reminder of how much we all love our department!
Featured: Public sector wages may be somewhat higher compared to private sector wages -but is there really a long-time pay gap? @fpvinay@EconUCL explains what points to consider in this comparison: ‘Does it pay to be a public-sector employee?’
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This new monthly data release from the Philadelphia Fed tracks the rate at which U.S. workers transition from one employer to another. https://t.co/Yc8uxxLmuC
Huge congratulations to my brilliant colleagues Raffaella Giacomini and Vasiliki Skreta for winning the @econometricsoc 's first Haavelmo prize and Arrow prize, respectively!
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Very nice chat over coffee + cake with some 3rd-year @EconUCL students. Really interesting and helpful to hear their feedback and ideas to take our BSc programme forward.
Looking forward to another session next week!
Thanks to everyone who participated in the 3rd @EPoS224 Workshop on Labor Markets @EconUniMannheim. 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!
@EfiAdamopoulou@andreas_gulyas
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?
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.
Considering applying for a PhD at UCL?
The UK Economics Applicant Mentoring Programme (AMP) helps applicants from underrepresented background prepare applications to Economics PhD programmes 🚀
More info about the initiative & how to join 👉 https://t.co/edzLaNmnTP