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Prof. Dr. Katharina Wrohlich

Prof. Dr. Katharina Wrohlich

Head of Gender Economics Research Group

Research Associate of the Public Economics Department

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+49 30 89789 - 164
Research Topics and Working Areas

Katharina Wrohlich is Professor of Public Finance, Gender and Family Economics at the University of Potsdam and Head of the Gender Economics Research Group at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin). Her research focuses on the evaluation of labor market, family and tax policy on employment and wages of women. Moreover, she is working on the issue of gender gaps in the labor market, in particular in terms of wages and leadership positions. Before joining the gender economics research group at DIW, Katharina was research associate (2002-2012) and deputy head (2012-2016) of the public economics department at DIW Berlin. She finished her PhD at the Free University of Berlin in 2007. Prior to her doctoral studies, she studied at the University of Vienna and at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

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Publications

Labour Economics

Parental Leave Policy and Long-run Earnings of Mothers

2022 | Corinna Frodermann, Katharina Wrohlich, Aline Zucco
German Economic Review

The Gender Division of Unpaid Care Work throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic in Germany

2022 | Jonas Jessen, C. Katharina Spiess, Sevrin Waights, Katharina Wrohlich
Labour Economics

Does Subsidized Care for Toddlers Increase Maternal Labor Supply?

2020 | Kai-Uwe Müller, Katharina Wrohlich
Labour Economics

Peer Effects in Parental Leave Decisions

2019 | Clara Welteke, Katharina Wrohlich
Journal of European Social Policy

The Family Working-Time Model: Towards More Gender Equality in Work and Care

2018 | Kai-Uwe Müller, Michael Neumann, Katharina Wrohlich
Diskussionspapiere 2046 / 2023

Women in Management and the Gender Pay Gap

2023| Virginia Sondergeld, Katharina Wrohlich
DIW Wochenbericht 28 / 2023

Kürzt das Ehegattensplitting statt das Elterngeld! Kommentar

2023| Katharina Wrohlich
DIW Weekly Report 9 / 2023

Gender Care Gap and Gender Pay Gap Increase Substantially until Middle Age

2023| Clara Schäper, Annekatrin Schrenker, Katharina Wrohlich
DIW Wochenbericht 9 / 2023

Gender Pay Gap und Gender Care Gap steigen bis zur Mitte des Lebens stark an

2023| Clara Schäper, Annekatrin Schrenker, Katharina Wrohlich
Externe referierte Aufsätze

Reformen bei Elterngeld und Ehegattensplitting könnten gleichstellungspolitische Impulse setzen

In: Wirtschaftsdienst 103 (2023), 9, S. 600-602 | Katharina Wrohlich
Weitere externe Aufsätze

Elterngeld: Stärkere gleichstellungspolitische Ausrichtung wünschenswert

In: Ifo-Schnelldienst 76 (2023), 9, S. 9-11 | Katharina Wrohlich
Externe referierte Aufsätze

Should Mama or Papa Work? Variations in Attitudes towards Parental Employment by Country of Origin and Child Age

In: Comparative Population Studies 48 (2023), S. 339-368 | Ludovica Gambaro, C. Katharina Spiess, Katharina Wrohlich, Elena Ziege
Zeitungs- und Blogbeiträge

Kürzt das Ehegattensplitting, nicht das Elterngeld!

In: Der Tagesspiegel (06.07.2023), [Online-Artikel] | Katharina Wrohlich
Externe Monographien

15 Jahre Elterngeld: Auswirkungen und Reformoptionen

Düsseldorf: Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, 2023, 22 S.
(Working Paper Forschungsförderung ; 281)
| Katharina Wrohlich, Aline Zucco

Lectures

Vortrag

Parental Leave and Discrimination on the Labor Market

Katharina Wrohlich, Julia Schmieder, Doris Weichselbaumer, Clara Welteke
Regensburg, 24.09.2023 - 27.09.2023
| Growth and the 'sociale Frage': Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2023
Vortrag

Keynote: The Interrelation of Different Gender Gaps on the Labor Market: A European Comparative Perspective

Katharina Wrohlich
Aveiro, Portugal, 28.04.2023 - 29.04.2023
| 5th International Conference on Gender Research: ICGR 2022
Vortrag

Feministische Ökonomie

Katharina Wrohlich
Berlin, 12.12.2022
| Ringvorlesung an der Freien Universität Berlin
Vortrag

Frauen in Führungspositionen: Entwicklungen und Potentiale

Katharina Wrohlich
Berlin, 09.12.2022
| Krisen, soziale Verwerfungen und Geschlechtergerechtigkeit: Wie gut ist das bundesdeutsche System sozialer Sicherung aufgestellt? - 20. efas-Fachtagung
Vortrag

Women's Managerial Representation and the Gender Pay Gap

Virginia Sondergeld, Katharina Wrohlich
Wien, Österreich, 04.11.2022 - 14.09.2022
| Austrian Labor Market Workshop

Research Projects

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