Research

Publications

Gender wage discrimination and trade openness. Prejudiced employers in an open industry [Open Access]

World Development, 170, 2023.

Working from Home: Heterogeneous Effects on Hours Worked and Wages [Open Access]

with Melanie Arntz and Francesco Berlingieri, Labour Economics, 76, 2022.

Press coverage in Wirtschafts Woche (in German).

Gender, Informal Employment and Trade Liberalization in Mexico [online] [WP]

with Pamela Bombarda. The World Bank Economic Review, 34(2), June 2020, Pages 259–283 .

Formal but less equal. Gender wage gaps in formal and informal jobs in Brazil [online] [pdf]

World Development, 101, January 2018, Pages 73-87.

Note: the latest version uses data for 2015. The working paper version available here uses data for 2009.

Domestic Regulation, Import Competition and Firm-Level Productivity Growth in the OECD. [online version][pdf]

with Sean Dougherty. Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 26(4), 2017, Pages 385-409.

Working from Home and Covid-19: the Chances and Risks for Gender Gaps [Online]

with Melanie Arntz and Francesco Berlingieri, Intereconomics, 55, December 2020, pages 381–386.

Press coverage: Süddeutsche Zeitung, DUB Unternehmer Magazin, Mannheimer Morgen (in German).

Flexible at work, flexible at home: working from home and the division of time within families [WP]

Local labour market resilience: the role of digitalisation and working-from-home [WP]

ZEW Discussion Paper No. 22-031, Mannheim 2022.

Press coverage: Handelsblatt

Gender Wage Gaps across Skills and Trade Openness [2019 version]

Remote work, local labour markets’ boundaries and spatial inequality

Till a Shutdown Do Us Part : The Covid-19-Shock to Local Labour Demand, Occupational Mobility and its Long-Term Impact. slides

Internet, ICT and employment dynamics within firms

Working hours fluctuations, career outcomes and fertility decisions