Research
Working Papers:
Precautionary Fertility: Conceptions, Births, and Abortions around Employment Shocks, with Anna Bárdits, Anna Adamecz, Márta Bisztray, Ágnes Szabó-Morvai, 2024.
Take-Up and Labor Supply Responses to Disability Insurance Earnings Limits, with Judit Kreko and Daniel Prinz, 2022.
Can public policy increase paternity acknowledgment? Evidence from earnings-related parental leave (with Anna Raute and Galina Zudenkova), 2022.
The Effects of the Early Retirement Age on Retirement Decisions (with Day Manoli), 2018, NBER Bulletin on Ageing and Health, IZA Discussion Paper No. 8174, 2014.
Publications:
Internal Labor Markets: A Worker Flow Approach, with Ingrid Huitfeldt, Andreas Kostol and Jan Nimczik, Journal of Econometrics, 233(2), 661-688, 2023 .
Local Polynomial Order in Regression Discontinuity Designs, with Zhuan Pei, David Lee, and David Card, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 40(3), 1259-1267, 2022.
Female Leadership and Gender Gap withi n Firms: Evidence from an Italian Board Reform, with Agata Maida, ILR Review, 75(2), 488-515, 2022., https://doi.org/10.1177/0019793920961995. Media Coverage: IZA Newsroom
Job Displacement, Family Dynamics, and Spousal Labor Supply, with Julia Schmieder and Martin Halla, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 12(4), 253-287, 2020. Media Coverage VOX, FAZ
Coworkers, Networks, and Job Search Outcomes (with Perihan O. Saygin and Michèle A. Weynandt), ILR Review, 74(1), 95-130, 2021 .
What Works? A Meta Analysis of Recent Active Labor Market Program Evaluations (with David Card and Jochen Kluve), Journal of the European Economic Association, 16(3), 2018.
Appendix List of Studies; previous version: IZA Discussion Paper No. 9236, 2015.
Analysing Plant Closure Effects Using Time-Varying Mixture-of-Experts Markov Chain Clustering (with Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter, Stefan Pittner, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer), Annals of Applied Statistics, 12(3), 1796-1830, 2018.
Does Extending Unemployment Benefits Improve Job Quality? (with Arash Nekoei), American Economic Review, 107(2), 527-561, 2017.
Regression Kink Design: Theory and Practice (with David Card, David S. Lee, Zhuan Pei), Advances in Econometrics,volume 38, 341 – 382, 2017.
Nonparametric Evidence on the Effects of Financial Incentives on Retirement Decisions (with Dayanand Manoli), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 8(4),160-182, 2016.
Mothers’ Long-run Career Patterns after First Birth (with Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter, Christoph Pamminger and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, 179(3), 707-725, 2016.
Inference on Causal Effects in a Generalized Regression Kink Design (with David Card, David S. Lee, Zhuan Pei), Econometrica, 83(6), 2453–2483, 2015.
Working paper version: IZA Discussion Paper No. 8575, 2015.
Fertility and economic instability: the role of unemployment and job displacement? (with Emilia del Bono and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer), Journal of Population Economics, 28(2), 463-478, 2015.
Recall Expectations and Duration Dependence, (with Arash Nekoei), American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 105(5), 142-146, 2015.
Competition and Gender Prejudice: Are Discriminatory Employers Doomed to Fail? (with Christine Zulehner), Journal of the European Economic Association, 12(2), 492-521, 2014.
Labor Market Entry and Earnings Dynamics: Bayesian Inference Using Mixtures-of-Experts Markov Chain Clustering (with Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter, Christoph Pamminger, and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer), Journal of Applied Econometrics, 27, 1116-1137, 2012.
Clash of Career and Family: Fertility Decisions after Job Displacement (with Emilia Del Bono and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer), Journal of the European Economic Association, 10(4), 659-683, 2012.
Does Indivisible Labor Explain the Difference between Micro and Macro Labor Supply Elasticities? A Meta-Analysis of Extensive Margin Elasticities, (with Raj Chetty, Adam Guren and Dayanand Manoli), NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2012, eds. D. Acemoglu, J. Parker, and M. Woodford.
The Effects of Marginal Employment on Subsequent Labor Market Outcomes (with Rene Böheim), German Economic Review, 12(2), 165-181, 2011.
Are Micro and Macro Labor Supply Elasticities Consistent? A Review of Evidence on the Intensive and Extensive Margins (with Raj Chetty, Adam Guren and Day Manoli) American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 101(3), 471-475, 2011.
Active Labor Market Policy Evaluations: A Meta-analysis (with David Card and Jochen Kluve), The Economic Journal, 120, F452-F477, 2010.
Female Hires and the Success of Start-up Firms, (with Christine Zulehner), American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 100(2), 358-361, 2010.
Do Wages Compensate for Anticipated Working Time Restrictions? Evidence from Seasonal Employment in Austria, (with Emilia Del Bono), Journal of Labor Economics, 26(1), 181-221, 2008.
Choice and Success of Job Search Methods (with Helmut Mahringer), Empirical Economics, 35, 153-178, 2008.
Cash-on-Hand and Competing Models of Intertemporal Behavior: New Evidence from the Labor Market (with David Card and Raj Chetty), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 122(4), 1511-1560, 2007.
Sectoral Adjustment of Employment to Shifts in Outsourcing and Trade: Evidence from a Dynamic Fixed Effects Multinomial Logit Model (with Peter Egger and Michael Pfaffermayr), Journal of Applied Econometrics, 22, 559-580, 2007.
The Spike at Benefit Exhaustion: Leaving the Unemployment System or Starting a New Job? (with David Card and Raj Chetty), American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 97(2), 113-118, 2007.
Active Labor Market Policy in Europe: Performance and Perspectives (with D. Card, M. Fertig, M. Gora, L. Jacobi, P. Jensen, J. Kluve, R. Leetmaa, L. Nima, E. Patacchini, S. Schaffner, C.M. Schmidt, B. van der Klaauw), Springer Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
Active Labor Market Policy in Austria: Practice and Evaluation Results. (with Helmut Hofer), DIW Quarterly Journal of Economic Research, 75, 155-167, 2006.
The Austrian Severance Payments Reform, (with Reinhard Koman and Ullrich Schuh), Empirica, 32, 255-274, 2005.
Wage Mobility in Austria 1986 – 1996, (with Helmut Hofer), Labour Economics, 9, 563-577, 2002.
Economic policy coordination in the EMU. How much scope will there be within the framework of the stability and growth pact? (with Fritz Breuss), in Hughes Hallet, A., Mooslechner, P., Schuerz, M. eds., Challenges for Economic Policy Coordination within European Monetary Union, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 143-167, 2001.
Vacancy Durations: a Model for Employer’s Search, Applied Economics, 32, 1069-1075, 2000.
Forecasting International Tourism: Trends to 2010, (with Egon Smeral), Annals of Tourism Research, 27, 982-1006, 2000.