In several projects, I examine to understand the causes, extent and consequences of employers' market power. Current projects are:

• The wage elasticity of recruitment, IZA Discussion Paper 15675, 2022  (with B. Hirsch, E. Jahn and A. Manning)
  We propose a new approach to estimate the wage elasticity of the flow of recruits to the firm based on the AKM wage decomposition and implement using date for the labour market region of Hamburg, Germany. 

• The pass-through of monopsony power to wages (with B. Hirsch, E. Jahn and A. Manning)
  We aim to estimate the pass-through of monopsony power to wages paid to workers and thus whether potential monopsony power indeed translates into wages.

My research on gender and family economics focuses more and more on investigating parenthood and leave from the firms' perspective. In our latest paper, we documented that anticipated, extended parental leave does not have a lasting impact on firms. Currently I work on this project:

• Gender-specific effects of the Covid 19-pandemic (with M. Buhmann, H. Illing, J. Schmieder, and S. Trenkle)
  We work on extending our previous work (in German) to understand how the pandemic affected labour market trajectories. 

I ran several field experiments in the past and more is on the way! Current projects are:

• Do Caseworker Meetings Prevent Unemployment? Evidence from a Field Experiment. IZA Discussion Paper 16293, 2024 (with P. Homrighausen) [conditionally accepted, European Economic Review; current darft available on request] 

• Voluntary unemployment insurance for the self-employed (with G. van den Berg, E. Jahn, G. Stephan, and A. Uhlendorff)