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. Labour 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  

   2. Labor Market Concentration in Germany. German Economic Review  (published online before print, with M. Popp); doi.org/10.1515/ger-2024-0129   

   3. 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 

   4. 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 

   5. 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 

   6. 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 

   7. 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 

   8. 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 

   9. 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 

   10. 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 

   11. 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 

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

   13. 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 

   14. 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 

   15. 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 

   16. 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