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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
15704 Patricia Palffy
Patrick Lehnert
Uschi Backes-Gellner
Social Norms and Gendered Occupational Choices of Men and Women: Time to Turn the Tide?
We analyze the relationship between social gender norms and adolescents' occupational choices by combining regional votes on constitutional amendments on gender equality with job application data ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2023, 62 (4), 380-410)
J24, J16, I24, M59
15703 Martha J. Bailey
Janet Currie
Hannes Schwandt
The COVID-19 Baby Bump: The Unexpected Increase in U.S. Fertility Rates in Response to the Pandemic
We use restricted natality microdata covering the universe of U.S. births for 2015-2021 and California births from 2015 to August 2022 to examine the childbearing response to the COVID-19 pandemic. ...
(published in: Demograpy, 2023, 120 (34), e2222075120)
J13, I14
15702 Miriam Koomen
Uschi Backes-Gellner
Occupational Tasks and Wage Inequality in Germany: A Decomposition Analysis
We study the role of occupational tasks as drivers of West German wage inequality. We match administrative wage data with longitudinal task data, which allows us to account for within-occupation ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 79, 102284)
C55, D63, E24, J31
15701 Sebastian Link
The Price and Employment Response of Firms to the Introduction of Minimum Wages
This paper studies the price and employment response of firms to the introduction of a nation-wide minimum wage in Germany. Widely throughout the economy, affected firms responded by rapidly and ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 239, 105236)
E31, E24, J38, J31
15700 Marco Bertoni
Giorgio Brunello
Filippo Da Re
Pension Reforms, Longer Working Horizons and Depression. Does the Risk of Automation Matter?
We investigate the effect of postponing minimum retirement age on middle-aged workers' depression. Using pension reforms in several European countries and data from the SHARE survey, we find that ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 85, 102447)
I1, J24, J26, O33
15699 Sandro Heiniger
Winfried Koeniger
Michael Lechner
The Heterogeneous Response of Real Estate Asset Prices to a Global Shock
We estimate the transmission of the pandemic shock in 2020 to prices in the residential and commercial real estate market by causal machine learning, using new granular data at the municipal level ...
(revised version published online as 'The heterogeneous response of real estate prices during the Covid-19 pandemic' in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society, 27 August 2024)
E21, E22, G12, G51, R21, R31
15695 David G. Blanchflower
Alex Bryson
Recession and Deflation?
Central bankers are raising interest rates on the assumption that wage-push inflation may lead to stagflation. This is not the case. Although unemployment is low, the labor market is not 'tight'. On ...
(published in: Review of Keynesian Economics, 2023, 11 (2), 234-251 )
E31, E43, J2, J3, J64
15694 Christian Eggenberger
Uschi Backes-Gellner
IT Skills, Occupation Specificity and Job Separations
This paper examines how workers' earnings change after involuntary job separations depending on the workers' acquired IT skills and the specificity of their occupational training. We categorize ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2023, 92, 102333 )
J24, J63, M53
15691 Astrid Kunze
Katrin Scharfenkamp
Gender Diversity, Labour in the Boardroom and Gender Quotas
This study investigates boards of (non-executive) directors and whether employee representation has a positive effect on gender diversity on boards. We exploit rich, newly assembled board–director ...
(substantially changed version published online as 'The Importance of Codetermination for Gender Diversity in the Boardroom' in: Industrial Relations, 16 June 2025 )
G3, J16, K3, L21, L25, M54
15689 Tobias Schultheiss
Uschi Backes-Gellner
Does Updating Education Curricula Accelerate Technology Adoption in the Workplace? Evidence from Dual Vocational Education and Training Curricula in Switzerland
In an environment of accelerating technological change and increasing digitalization, firms need to adopt new technologies faster than ever before to stay competitive. This paper examines whether ...
(published in: Journal of Technology Transfer, 2024, 49, 191–235)
O33, I25, J23
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