Rita Ginja

Rita Ginja

@rginja.bsky.social

Professor of Economics at UiBergen. UCL PhD. Labor Economics, Education, Health and Development In 🇳🇴 after 🇵🇹🇬🇧🇺🇸🇸🇪 https://sites.google.com/site/rcginja/

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Rita Ginja
@rginja.bsky.social
Kamila Cygan-Rehm@cyganrehm.bsky.social

CfP 📢 Join us & our fantastic keynote speaker @rginja.bsky.social for the 15th Dresden Workshop on Labor Economics and Social Policy (May 21-22, 2026). Looking forward! Deadline for submissions: Feb 15, 2026👇 www.ifo.de/veranstaltun... @tudresden.bsky.social @cesifo.org

ifo.de15th ifo Dresden Workshop on Labor Economics and Social Policy | ifo InstitutWe specifically encourage PhD students and post-doctoral researchers to submit their current research. Each paper will be allocated 45 minutes, to be divided between the presentation, a discussion by an assigned workshop participant and a general discussion.
Rita Ginja
@rginja.bsky.social

Does your doctor matter? Yes! See how in the summary about our work below 👇

IZA@LISER@iza.org

Doctor quality varies more than we think—and it matters a lot for patient health. 🩺⚕️ Find out more in this IZA World of Labor piece, based on new research by @rginja.bsky.social, @julier.bsky.social, @bartonwillage.com & Alexander Willén. wol.iza.org/opinions/can...

wol.iza.orgCan your doctor save you?The best doctors do not simply offer more care: they deliver more effective care
Rita Ginja
@rginja.bsky.social

O nosso paper da menopausa chegou ao Canada 🇨🇦 ! E Portugal? 🇵🇹

Gabriella Conti@gabriconti.bsky.social

📢Our new work "The #Menopause #Penalty" (w/ @rginja.bsky.social P Persson @bartonwillage.com is featured in @ctvnews-rss.bsky.social 🇨🇦! "The menopause penalty: How earnings and careers are affected over time" ctvnews.ca/health/artic... Our study here: ifs.org.uk/publications...

ctvnews.caThe menopause penalty: How earnings and careers are affected over timeA recent study suggests women experience a significant fall in earnings in the years following a menopause diagnosis, with more women stopping work and others working fewer hours.
Rita Ginja
@rginja.bsky.social

Want to hear about impacts of menopause on labor market outcomes & health of women? Here it is a 15min summary of our paper Link to paper ifs.org.uk/publications...

ifs.org.ukThe menopause "penalty" | Institute for Fiscal StudiesWe show that a menopause diagnosis leads to lasting drops in earnings and employment, alongside greater reliance on social transfers.
VoxEU @ CEPR@voxeu.org

@rginja.bsky.social (U. Bergen) discusses her and coauthors research on the menopause penalty in the workplace. Using data from Norway & Sweden, she finds surprising long-term effects on earnings & health. 🎧 Listen here: cepr.org/multimedia/m... #WomensHealth #EconSKy #Menopause

Rita Ginja
@rginja.bsky.social

- Noncontributory HI for those w/out social protection raised informality for low educ hhlds w/ children in Mexic - Hhld search model - value of SP is 0.53-1.33/unit of net cost of provision - Insight: HI is hhld public good - shared benefits may imply within hhld interdependencies in job decisions

Rita Ginja
@rginja.bsky.social

The Welfare, Labor and Health research group at Department of Economics UiBergen just hosted the last workshop of the year - we had also our neighbors from FAIR-NHH visiting #automation, #inequality, #braindrain, #gendergaps, #research

Rita Ginja
@rginja.bsky.social

Just wrapped up an inspiring 2-day Workshop on Mental, Human Capital & Social Insurance at Solstrand Bringing together researchers from across Europe and US, we explored crucial topics from workplace #harassment, #mentalhealth, #genderequality and #earlychildhood interventions

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