Firm-Level Technology Adoption in Times of Crisis (with Melanie Arntz, Cäcilia vom Baur, Georg Graetz, Terry Gregory, and Florian Lehmer), August 2025. r&r at European Economic Review.
The Impact of Labour Demand Shocks when Occupational Labour Supplies are Heterogeneous (with Ben Etheridge and Aitor Irastorza-Fadrique), October 2025.
Firm Heterogeneity in Skill Returns (with Khalil Esmkhani and Giovanni Gallipoli), Journal of Labor Economics, July 2025, Vol. 43, No. 3, p695-723. https://doi.org/10.1086/729103.
System Relevance and Firm Performance due to COVID-19 (with Pamela Qendrai), German Economic Review, December 2023, Vol. 24, No. 4, p349-410. https://doi.org/10.1515/ger-2023-0070.
Accepted Working Paper
"Since You’re So Rich, You Must Be Really Smart": Talent, Rent Sharing, and the Finance Wage Premium (with Daniel Metzger and Per Strömberg), Review of Economic Studies, October 2023, Vol. 90, No. 5, p2215-2260. https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdac079.
Accepted Working Paper and Online Appendix
Blog post on ProMarket.org
Occupation Growth, Skill Prices, and Wage Inequality (with Hans-Martin von Gaudecker and Felix Schran), Journal of Labor Economics, January 2024, Vol. 42, No. 1, p201-243. https://doi.org/10.1086/722084.
Accepted Working Paper and Online Appendix
Replication Code (you will need to make a contract with the IAB for data access)
Make Yourselves Scarce: The Effect of Demographic Change on the Relative Wages and Employment Rates of Experienced Workers (with Christian Siegel), International Economic Review, November 2021, Vol. 62, No. 4, p1537-1568. https://doi.org/10.1111/iere.12524.
Demographic Change and Regional Labour Markets (with Terry Gregory, Pamela Qendrai, and Christian Siegel), Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Spring 2021, Vol. 37, No. 1, p113-131. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxrep/graa063.
The Price of Polarization: Estimating Task Prices under Routine-Biased Technical Change, Quantitative Economics, May 2020, Vol. 11, p761-799. https://doi.org/10.3982/qe1031.
Monte Carlo Simulations of the Propensity Regression: PureRoy; GeneralzdRoy
Media Coverage: VoxEU; CentrePiece
Top Earnings Inequality and the Gender Pay Gap: Canada, Sweden and the United Kingdom (with Nicole Fortin and Brian Bell), Labour Economics, August 2017, Vol. 47, p107-123. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2017.05.010.
The Allocation of Talent over the Business Cycle and its Long-Term Effect on Sectoral Productivity (with Martin Watzinger), Economica, October 2015, Vol. 82(328), p892-911. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecca.12143.
Media Coverage: LSE USAPP; Guardian; Times Higher Education
Digitale Transformation auf Sparflamme: Weniger 4.0-Investitionen in der Pandemie (with Melanie Arntz, Georg Graetz, Terry Gregory, Florian Lehmer, Cäcilia Lipowski, and Britta Matthes), ZEW policy brief, October 2024, No. 14, Mannheim, 8 S. https://ftp.zew.de/pub/zew-docs/policybrief/de/pb14-24.pdf.
Press Release (in English)
Digitalisierung in der Covid-19-Pandemie: Corona hat den digitalen Graben zwischen den Betrieben vertieft (with Melanie Arntz, Georg Graetz, Terry Gregory, Jan Moritz Johanning, Florian Lehmer, Cäcilia Lipowski, Britta Matthes, and Nick Niers), IAB-Kurzbericht, 2023, No. 4, Nürnberg, 8 S. DOI:10.48720/IAB.KB.2304.
The Causes and Consequences of Job Polarization, and their Future Perspectives. In Work in the Age of Data. Madrid: BBVA, 2019. (Full book here)
The Allocation of and the Returns to Talent: An Empirical Model, The Bonn Journal of Economics, July 2014, Volume 3(1), Pages 101-111.
Concentration versus Re-Matching? Evidence on the Locational Effects of Commuting Costs, May 2013, LSE Centre for Economic Performance Discussion Paper, 1207.