RESEARCH

PUBLICATIONS

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). Download at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2021.102099.

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). Download at https://doi.org/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). Download at https://doi.org/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). Download at https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/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). Download at https://doi.org/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). Download at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0351.2009.00374.x.

The Returns to Pencil Use Revisited, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 61(4), 2008. Download at https://doi.org/10.1177/001979390806100404.

Technical Change, Job Tasks and Rising Educational Demands: Looking Outside the Wage Structure, Journal of Labor Economics, 24(2), 2006. Download at https://doi.org/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). Download at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0475.2006.00154.x.

WORKING PAPERS / WORK IN PROGRESS

Does the Gender Composition of an Occupation Affect its Compensation? (Joint with Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln).

Resilient Men in Prime Working Age (Joint with Bernd Fitzenberger and Alexandra Fedorets).

The Role of STEM Occupations in the German Labor Market (Joint with Sabrina Genz and Kai Priesack).