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The 20th Berlin IO Day

The Berlin IO Day is a one-day workshop supported by the Berlin's leading academic institutions, including DIW Berlin, ESMT Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Technische Universität Berlin. The aim is to create an international forum for high quality research in Industrial Organization in the heart of Berlin, one of Europe's most vibrant and intellectually lively...

The Gender Gap in Fair Earnings: The Effect of Male and Female Supervisors

Research has consistently shown that lower earnings for women and higher earnings for men are generally regarded as fair by both women and men. Previous research has focused on structural factors to explain this phenomenon, but has neglected proximate relationships at work. This study examines how the supervisors’ gender relates to employees’ justice attitudes toward the earnings of men and women. ...

Personality in the Classroom: Interactions of Parental SES and Students’ Big Five in Predicting School Performance

While socioeconomic status (SES) and personality have both been identified as relevant predictors of academic achievement, little is known about their possible interplay in predicting school performance. The present study used the latent moderated structural equations (LMS) method to investigate latent interactions between familial SES and parent-rated Big Five in a sample of German high school students ...

Wir müssen Superreiche endlich stärker besteuern

Part-time Traps (joint with Jan Berendsen, Iris Kesternich and Christian Pugnaghi Zimpelmann)

Most women reduce their labor supply after childbirth. When children become older, most women spend less time on women spend less time on childcare activities. Yet, female labor supply recovers little as children age and part-time work remains common among mothers of older children. Understanding the motivation behind labor supply choices of women with older children is crucial to design effective...

Anhebung des Rentenalters für Frauen. Ausstrahlungseffekte auf das Arbeitskräfteangebot junger Erwachsener in Brasilien

AUFGRUND VON KRANKHEIT ABGESAGT Der englische Originaltitel des Seminars lautet: "Raising the Retirement Age for Women. Spillover Effects on Young Adults’ Labor Supply in Brazil". Die Präsentation findet auf Englisch statt. Eine kurze Zusammenfassung zum Vortrag ist nur auf der englischen Veranstaltungsseite verfügbar!

Raising the Retirement Age for Women. Spillover Effects on Young Adults’ Labor Supply in Brazil**CANCELLED**

CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS Latin America is facing rapid population aging. To address the sustainability of contributory pension systems, many countries are considering increasing the retirement age. One such case is Brazil, where a pension reform in 2019 raised the retirement age from 60 to 62 for women. While the effects of such reforms on the labor force participation of older adults and their...

Occupations, Disability Insurance, and Career Choices

Work-limiting disabilities pose a significant risk to the earnings potential and welfare of older workers. While coverage of public disability insurance (DI) systems is almost universal, the risk of becoming dependent on DI varies across occupations. In this paper, I study the value of public DI across different occupations using data from administrative social security records in Germany. I...

Diversity in Teams and Creative Output

Modern labor markets increasingly rely on teamwork for tasks that require creative thinking, yet little is known about how such creative output is produced. We exploit the randomized allocation of first-year undergraduate students to study groups in a large Economics module to examine how diversity in team members’ backgrounds affects the creativity of their collaborative work. Each group produces...

Stress and Resilience in the Labor Market