RESEARCH

NEW WORKING PAPERS:

Workplace Connections and Labor Migration (Joint with Michelle Hansch and Jan Nimczik)
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Does the Gender Composition of an Occupation Affect Wages? (Joint with Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln and Franziska Riepl)
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PUBLICATIONS:

Regime Change and Occupational Mobility: Former GDR Workers During the Wende, Revue Economique, Vol. 75(5), 2024. www.jstor.org/stable/48811538

Jobs, Tasks, and Authority, Elgar Encyclopedia of Labor Studies, 2023. DOI: 10.4337/9781800377547.ch23

Government Aid and Child Refugees’ Economic Success Later in Life: Evidence from Post-WWII GDR Refugees, Labour Economics, Vol. 75, 2022 (Joint with Sandra E. Black, Hannah Liepmann, and Camille Remigereau). DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2021.102099. Awarded the prize for the best paper in the Journal in 2022.

The Importance of STEM: High School Knowledge, Skills and Occupations in an Era of Growing Inequality, Research Policy, Vol. 50(7), 2021 (Joint with Sandra E. Black, Ziwei He, Koit Hung, and Chandra Muller). DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2021.104249

The Impact of Immigration on Competing Natives’ Wages: Evidence from German Reunification, Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 102(1), 2020 (Joint with Susanne Prantl). DOI: 10.1162/rest_a_00853

From the `Sick Man of Europe’ to the `Economic Superstar’: Germany’s Resurgent Economy, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 28(1), 2014 (Joint with Christian Dustmann, Bernd Fitzenberger and Uta Schönberg). DOI: 10.1257/jep.28.1.167

Technological Change and the Skill Content of Women’s Work, Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 92(1), 2010 (Joint with Sandra E. Black). DOI: 10.1162/rest.2009.11761

How does entry regulation influence entry into self-employment and occupational mobility?, Economics of Transition, Vol. 17(4), 2009 (Joint with Susanne Prantl). DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0351.2009.00374.x

The Returns to Pencil Use Revisited, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 61(4), 2008. DOI: 10.1177/001979390806100404

Technical Change, Job Tasks and Rising Educational Demands: Looking Outside the Wage Structure, Journal of Labor Economics, 24(2), 2006. DOI: 10.1086/499972

Managerial Ownership and Firm Performance in German Small and Medium-Sized Private Enterprises, German Economic Review, 7(2), 2006 (Joint with Elisabeth Müller). DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0475.2006.00154.x