Research

New Technologies

"Skill Demand in the Age of AI: Evidence from Europe" (with Najada Feimi, Terry Gregory and David Marguerit), mimeo, LISER, April 2025.

"Firm Investments and the Greening of Occupations" (with Natella Agikyan and Terry Gregory), mimeo, LISER, April 2025.

"AI and Educational Choices" (with David Marguerit), mimeo, LISER, August 2025.

"AI, Task Changes and Worker Reallocation" (with Felix Grimm and Erwin Winkler), CEPR Working Paper, January 2025; IZA Discussion Paper, December 2024.

“Labor Market Effects of AI and Robotics: Evidence from Patent Data" (with Felix Grimm), Working Paper, updated version coming soon.

“The Pandemic Push: Digital Technologies and Workforce Adjustment" (with Christian Kagerl, Laura Pohlan and Duncan Roth), R&R at Labour Economics. Earlier version: CEPR Working Paper No. 18097, April 2023.

Human Capital

"Boss Effects in the Labor Market" (with Natella Agikyan and Astrid Kunze), mimeo, LISER, April 2025.

“College Openings and Local Economic Development” (with Francesco Berlingieri and Matthias Quinckhardt), November 2023, under submission. Earlier version: CEPR Working Paper No. 17374, April 2025.

“Minimum Wages, Routine Jobs and Capital-Labor Substitution” (with Terry Gregory, Boris Ivanov and Kristina Zapp), June 2022.

“Evolution of Wage Inequality in East Germany” (with Eduard Brüll), December 2018.

“Spillover Effects of Mass Layoffs” (with Ines Helm and Uta Schönberg), Journal of the European Economic Association, 18, 1 (2020): 427-468.

“How General is Human Capital? A Task-Based Approach” (with Uta Schönberg), Journal of Labor Economics, 28, 1 (2010): 1-50 (lead article).

“Skill Loss of Older East Germans after Unification”, Journal of Applied Social Science Studies (Schmollers Jahrbuch), 125 (2005): 1-10 (lead article).

Policy Evaluation

“From Licensing to Certification: Labor Market Effects of Liberalization,” (with Franziska Lembcke), Working Paper, March 2020.

“Minimum Wages, Routine Jobs and Capital-Labor Substitution” (with Terry Gregory, Boris Ivanov and Kristina Zapp), June 2022.

“Free Childcare and its Effects on Children and their Families” (with Anna Busse), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 179 (2020): 240-260.

“Taxing Childcare: Effects on Family Labor Supply and Children” (with Björn Saß), Journal of Labor Economics, 36, 3 (2018): 665-709.

“Gorbachev’s Anti-Alcohol Campaign and Russia’s Mortality Crisis” (with Grant Miller and Jay Bhattacharya), American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 5, 2 (2013): 232-60.

Immigration

“Arriving LATE: Access to Citizenship and Economic Integration” (with Julio Garbers), June 2024.

“Economic Assimilation of Immigrants in Germany” (with Ole Monscheuer), November 2021.

“Access to Citizenship and Social Integration” (with Nicolas Keller and Ole Monscheuer), Working Paper, April 2019.

“Marginal Returns to Citizenship and Skill Development,” (with Christina Vonnahme and Anna Busse), April 2025, under submission.

”Citizenship and Integration” (with Julio Garbers), Labour Economics, 82, June 2023.

“Access to Citizenship and the Economic Assimilation of Immigrants” (with Nicolas Keller), Economic Journal, 128, 616 (2018): 3141-3181.

“Effects of Enforcement on Illegal Markets: Evidence from Migrant Smuggling at the Southwestern Border”, Journal of Public Economics, 92, 10-11 (2008): 1926-1941.

Health Economics

“In Sickness and In Health: Job Displacement and Health Spillovers within Couples” (with Kristiina Huttunen, Laura Jernström, Robin Stitzing and Lauri Sääsvuori), CEPR Discussion Papers; no. DP15856; earlier version: IZA Working Paper No. 13329; June 2022, Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming.

“Proportional Representation, Political Responsiveness and Child Mortality”, April 2025; under submission. Earlier version: IZA Working Paper No. 12729.

“Compulsory Schooling and Mortality in 20th Century Europe” (with Hendrik Jürges and Steffen Reinhold), Social Science and Medicine, 127 (2015): 74-82.

“Gorbachev’s Anti-Alcohol Campaign and Russia’s Mortality Crisis” (with Grant Miller and Jay Bhattacharya), American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 5, 2 (2013): 232-60.

Political Economy

“Proportional Representation, Political Responsiveness and Child Mortality”, April 2025; under submission. Earlier version: IZA Working Paper No. 12729.

“The Role of Electoral Incentives for Policy Innovation: Evidence from the U.S. Welfare Reform” (with Andreas Bernecker and Pierre Boyer), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 13, 2 (2021): 26-57.

“Gender Gaps in Policy-Making: Evidence from Direct Democracy in Switzerland” (with Patricia Funk), Economic Policy, 30, 81 (2015): 141-181.

“Voter Preferences, Direct Democracy and Government Spending” (with Patricia Funk), European Journal of Political Economy, 32 (2013): 300-319.

“How do Electoral Systems Affect Fiscal Policy? Evidence from Cantonal Parliaments, 1890-2000” (with Patricia Funk), Journal of the European Economic Association, 11, 5 (2013): 1178-1203.

“Does Direct Democracy Reduce the Size of Government? New Evidence from Historical Data, 1890-2000” (with Patricia Funk), Economic Journal, 121, 557 (2011): 1252-1280.

“Overseas Trade and the Decline of Privateering” (with Henning Hillmann), Journal of Economic History, 71, 3 (2011): 730-761.

Survey Methodology

“The German Internet Panel: A Probability-Based Face-to-Face Recruited Online Panel” (with Annelies Blom and Ulrich Krieger), Field Methods, 27 (2015): 391-408.

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