research

Refereed Publications

• • The fall in German unemployment: A flow analysis (with Carlos Carrillo-Tudela and Jean-Marc Robin), European Economic Review, 2021, 132, 103658.

  • Working time accounts and turnover, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2021, 123(3), p.1025-1056.

  • Imperfect monitoring of job search: Structural estimation and policy design, (with Bart Cockx, Muriel Dejemeppe and Bruno Van der Linden), Journal of Labor Economics, 2018, 36, p.75-120.

  • The employment effect of reforming a public employment agency, (with Klaus Wälde), European Economic Review, 2016, 84, p.140-164.

  • Estimating incentive and welfare effects of non-stationary unemployment benefits, (with Klaus Wälde), International Economic Review, 2013, 54(4), p.1159-1198.

  • Informal employment in developing countries: Opportunity or last resort?, (with Isabel Günther), Journal of Development Economics, 2012, 97(1), p.88-98.

  • Search equilibrium and social and private returns to education, (with Christian Holzner), European Economic Review, 2010, 54(1), p.39-59.

  • Analysis of the determinants of fertility decline in the Czech Republic, (with Stephan Klasen), Journal of Population Economics, 2006, 19(1), p.25-54.

Work in progress

• • Biased beliefs in job search: Estimation and policy advise (with Patrick Arni and Bart Cockx).

Press coverage

• • Selected press coverage of my work on labour market reforms in Germany (with Klaus Wälde): Die Zeit, 29/11/2018; Süddeutsche Zeitung, 18/6/2018 and 1/3/2017; Frankfurter Rundschau, 4-5/5/2016 and 4-5/1/2014.

Other Publications

• • Beachtlicher Erfolg der Hartz-III-Reform, (with Klaus Wälde), Wirtschaftsdienst, 2016, 96(7), p.510-514.

  • Hartz-IV: Sozialverträgliche Korrekturen, (with Klaus Wälde), Wirtschaftsdienst, 2014, 94(5), p.309-310.

  • Folgen der Hartz-Reformen für die Beschäftigung, (with Klaus Wälde), Wirtschaftsdienst, 2014, 94(2), p.112-117.

Curiosity

• • Publish or perish? The increasing importance of publications for prospective economics professors in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland, (with Michael Graber and Klaus Wälde), German Economic Review, 2008, 9(4), p.457-472.