Benjamin Schoefer News Today

Yusuf Mercan, Benjamin Schoefer, and Petr Sedláček, newly published in American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics. I best liked this excerpt from p.2, noting…

Sen. Elizabeth Warren said workers should be able to select 40% of the members on a corporate board. Big German companies have been required to do it for decades.

A new paper finds that low-wage workers in Germany underestimated how much money they could make elsewhere. If they had accurate information, 10 to

It is essential for policy makers to understand the crises created by widening income inequalities and labour market ruptures.

In context to the global macro-economic scenario, and positioning India in it, there are three fault lines. How each nation understands and responds to them using an intersectional lens will shape the course of the future economic trajectory.

The government’s response to these fissures will shape the course of the country’s socio-economic trajectory for the next decade. 

BERKELEY — Approximately 13 per cent of low-wage jobs in Germany would not be viable if workers understood just how good their outside options truly are. That is the conclusion of a recent paper by Benjamin Schoefer, my colleague here at the University of California, Berkeley, and his co-authors, Simon Jäger, Christopher Roth and Nina Roussille.

BERKELEY — Approximately 13 per cent of low-wage jobs in Germany would not be viable if workers understood just how good their outside options truly are. That is the conclusion of a recent paper by Benjamin Schoefer, my colleague here at the University of California, Berkeley, and his co-authors, Simon Jäger, Christopher Roth and Nina Roussille.

The monthly quit rate in the US is remarkably high, especially when you consider the employment-to-population ratio

Approximately 13% of low-wage jobs in Germany would not be viable if workers understood just how good their outside options truly are. That is the conclusion of a recent paper by Benjamin Schoefer, my colleague here at the University of California, Berkeley, and his co-authors, Simon Jäger, Christopher Roth, and Nina Roussille.“When comparing workers’...