Research Publications

For a full list of publications, including data-related and policy-oriented publications, see my CV or my profile at IAB. 

1. 1. Do caseworker meetings prevent unemployment? Evidence from a field experiment, European Economic Review (with P. Homrighausen); doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2025.105215 

   2. Labor Market Concentration, Wages and Job Security in Europe, Journal of Human Resources  (with A. Bassanini, G. Bovini, E. Caroli, J. Casanova Ferrando, F. Cingano, P. Falco, F. Felgueroso, M. Jansen, P. S. Martins, A. Melo and M. Popp); https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.0223-12757R1  

   3. Labor Market Concentration in Germany. German Economic Review 26(4), 2025: 361–393 (with M. Popp); doi.org/10.1515/ger-2024-0129   

   4. Parental Leave, Worker Substitutability, and Firms’ Employment, Economic Journal 135(669), 2025: 1467–1495 (with M. Huebener, J. Jessen, and D. Kühnle); https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueae114 

   5. Who benefits from cash-for-care? The effects of a home care subsidy on maternal employment, childcare choices, and children's development, Journal of Human Resources 59(4), 2024: 1011-1051  (with M. Collischon and D. Kühnle); https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.0720-11051R1 

   6. The urban wage premium in imperfect labor markets, Journal of Human Resources 57(S), 2022: S111-S136 (with B. Hirsch, E. Jahn and A. Manning); https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.monopsony.0119-9960R1 

   7. Revisiting gender identity and relative income within households – a cautionary tale on the potential pitfalls of density estimators, Journal of Applied Econometrics 36/7, 2021: 1065–1073 (with D. Kühnle and K. Ostermann); https://doi.org/10.1002/jae.2853 

   8. Stacked linear regression analysis to facilitate testing of hypotheses across OLS regressions, Stata Journal 21/2, 2021: 411–429 (with H. Tauchmann); doi.org/10.1177/1536867X211025801 

   9. Does starting universal childcare earlier influence children’s skill development?, Demography 57, 2020: 61–98 (with D. Kühnle); link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13524-019-00836-9 

   10. Do unions and works councils really dampen the gender pay gap?, Economics Letters 196, 2020 (with M. Töpfer and C. Schnabel); doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2020.109509 

   11. Employment adjustments following rises and reductions in minimum wages: New insights from a survey experiment, Labour 34/3, 2020: 323–346 (with M. Bossler and C. Schnabel); doi.org/10.1111/labr.12168 

   12. The German model of industrial relations: (Where) does it still exist?, Journal of Economics and Statistics 239/1, 2019: 5–37 (with C. Schnabel); doi.org/10.1515/jbnst-2018-0158 

   13. Works council introductions in Germany: Do they reflect workers’ voice?, Economic and Industrial Democracy 40/2, 2019: 301–325; doi.org/10.1177/0143831X16645199 

   14. Bounding the causal effect of unemployment on mental health–nonparametric evidence from four countries, Health Economics 26/12, 2017: 1844–1861 (with K. Cygan-Rehm and D. Kühnle); doi.org/10.1002/hec.3510 

   15. The employment effect of deregulating shopping hours: Evidence from German retailing, Economic Inquiry 55/2, 2017: 757–777 (with M. Bossler); doi.org/10.1111/ecin.12394 

   16. The levelling effect of product market competition on gender wage discrimination, IZA Journal of Labor Economics 3/19, 2014 (with B. Hirsch and C. Schnabel); izajole.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40172-014-0013-1 

   17. Do women benefit from competitive markets? Product market competition and the gender pay gap in Germany, Economics Bulletin 32/2, 2012: 1618–1624 (with B. Hirsch and C. Schnabel); www.accessecon.com/Pubs/EB/2012/Volume32/EB-12-V32-I2-P155.pdf