Firm-Level Technology Adoption in Times of Crisis (with Melanie Arntz, Georg Graetz, Terry Gregory, Florian Lehmer, and Cäcilia Lipowski), April 2025.
The Impact of Labour Demand Shocks when Occupational Labour Supplies are Heterogeneous (with Ben Etheridge and Aitor Irastorza-Fadrique), June 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.