Report of January 6, 2020
Jonas Jessen, doctoral student at the DIW Graduate Center and research assistant in the Education and Family Department, receives the BeNA Innovative Research Award 2019. We congratulate Jonas for the award, which is presented annually by the Berlin Network for Employment Research (BeNA) for outstanding scientific contributions.
For his paper with the title "A Firm-Side Perspective on Parental Leave Absences", which he wrote together with Mathias Huebener, Daniel Kuehnle and Michael Oberfichtner, Jonas was honored at the BeNA Winter Workshop in November 2019. The paper deals with the impact of parental leave on companies and colleagues.