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With Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan, Jan Nimczik and Lennert Peede In times of an increasing scarcity of workers, Germany has in a rare move decreased the retirement age for a sizeable group of the workforce. This paper investigates the effect of this negative labor supply shock on firm and individual level outcomes using the universe of firms in the IEB as well as matched employer-employee data from...
Gemeinsame Arbeit mit: Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan, Jan Nimczik and Lennert Peede Der englische Originaltitel des Seminars lautet: "Firm Adjustment to a Policy-Induced Negative Labor Supply Shock: Evidence from Germany". Die Präsentation findet auf Englisch statt.Eine kurze Zusammenfassung zum Vortrag ist nur auf der englischen Veranstaltungsseite verfügbar!
We study how labor demand shocks affect workforce diversity in the absence of targeted diversity policies. Exploiting German reunification as a natural experiment, we analyze the academic labor market where nearly all social sciences professors in East Germany were replaced while STEM faculty remained largely unchanged. Using administrative data and a regional difference-in-differences design, we...
This paper constructs homogeneous time series of global household offshore wealth covering the 2001–2023 period, during which major international efforts were implemented to curb offshore tax evasion. We find that: (i) global offshore wealth remained broadly stable as a fraction of global GDP since 2001, following a sharp increase in the 1980s and 1990s; (ii) the location of offshore wealth changed ...
We propose a new approach to estimate selection-corrected quantiles of the gender wage gap. Our method employs instrumental variables that explain variation in the latent variable but, conditional on the latent process, do not directly affect selection. We provide semiparametric identification of the quantile parameters without imposing parametric restrictions on the selection probability, derive the ...
