Research
Selected Work in Progress
The Micro and Macro Effects of Changes in the Potential Benefit Duration (with J. Jessen, E. Gałecka-Burdziak, M. Góra and J. Kluve)
Revise and Resubmit at the Review of Economic Studies.
An Estimated Model of Employer and Non-Employer Entrepreneurship (with F. Fossen, M. Hossain, J. König, S. Mukhopadhyay, and U. Schneider).
Reject and Resubmit at the International Economic Review. Old working paper
Earnings Dynamics and Income Insurance in Germany: A Cohort view (with N. Isaak)
A Simulation Method to Calculate Inverse-Optimum Social Marginal Welfare Weights (with N. Isaak)
Moral Hazard among the Employed: Evidence from Regression Discontinuity (with E. Gałecka-Burdziak, J. Jessen & A. C. Johnston)
Longer Unemployment Benefits for More Experienced Workers—a Privilege or a Curse? An RDD and DiD Analysis (with E. Gałecka-Burdziak, J. Jessen & A. Ruzik-Sierdzińska)
How to Spend it (with M. Andor & J. König)
Refereed International Publications
Hours Risk and Wage Risk: Repercussions over the Life-Cycle (with J. König)
Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2023, Vol. 125(4), 956–996. (Open Access).
Replication materialOptimal Taxation when the Tax Burden Matters (with M. Metzing and D. Rostam-Afschar)
Finanzarchiv 2022, Vol. 78 (3): 312-340. (Working paper)
Macroeconomic Effects of the Anticipation and Implementation of Tax Changes in Germany: Evidence from a Narrative Account ( with D. Christofzik and A. Fuest)
Economica 2022, Vol. 89(353): 62-81 (Open Access).
Why Has Income Inequality in Germany Increased from 2002 to 2011? A Behavioral Microsimulation Decomposition.
Review of Income and Wealth 2019, Vol. 65, 3, 540-560. (Working paper)
Punishing potential mothers? Evidence for statistical employer discrimination from a natural experiment (with J. Jessen and J. Kluve )
Labour Economics 2019, Vol. 59, 164-172. (ungated version)
How Important is Precautionary Labor Supply? (with D. Rostam-Afschar and S. Schmitz)
Oxford Economic Papers 2018, Vol. 70, 3, 868–891.
Getting the Poor to Work: Three Welfare Increasing Reforms for a Busy Germany (with D. Rostam-Afschar and V. Steiner)
Finanzarchiv 2017, Vol. 73, 1, 1-41. (Working Paper)
Refereed Publications in German
A Split Decision: Welche Auswirkungen hätte die Abschaffung des Ehegattensplittings auf das Arbeitsangebot und die Einkommensverteilung? (with R. Bachmann & P. Jäger)
Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 2021, Vol. 70 (2): 105-131 (Open Access).
Non-refereed Publications
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Software Components
GRAPH3D: Stata module to draw colored, scalable, rotatable 3D plots (with D. Rostam-Afshar)
Repec 2014
Dormant Papers
Work Incentives and the Cost of Redistribution via Tax-transfer Reforms under Constrained Labor Supply (with B. Fischer and V. Steiner)
Free University of Berlin Discussion Paper 2019/10Parental altruism and estate taxation (with M. Metzing and M. von Werder)