Research Papers:


Worker Representatives
(with Julian Budde, Thomas Dohmen, and Simon Trenkle)


Labor Market Tightness and Union Activity
(with Chantal Pezold and Patrick Nüß)


Voice at Work
(with Jarkko Harju and Benjamin Schoefer)
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, conditionally accepted.


How Substitutable are Workers? Evidence from Worker Deaths
(new version with Jörg Heining and Nathan Lazarus)
American Economic Review, conditionally accepted.
 

Long-Term Effects of Equal Sharing: Evidence from Inheritance Rules for Land
(with Charlotte Bartels and Natalie Obergruber)
Economic Journal, accepted. Publisher's Version, VoxEU Summary
 

Worker Beliefs About Outside Options
(with Christopher Roth, Nina Roussille, and Benjamin Schoefer)
Quarterly Journal of Economics, forthcoming (August 2024).
Media Coverage: econimateBBCBrookingsProject SyndicateFAS (German)Economic Report of the President/CEA Annual Report 


Marginal Jobs and Job Surplus: A Test of the Efficiency of Separations
(with Benjamin Schoefer and Josef Zweimüller)
Review of Economic Studies, 90, no. 3 (2023): 1265-1303, VoxEU Summary


Paying Outsourced Labor: Direct Evidence from Linked Temp Agency-Worker-Client Data
(with Andres Drenik, Pascuel Plotkin, and  Benjamin Schoefer)
Review of Economics and Statistics, 105, no. 1 (2023): 206-216, VoxDev Talk


The German Model of Industrial Relations: Balancing Flexibility and Collective Action
(with Shakked Noy and Benjamin Schoefer)
Journal of Economic Perspectives, (2022) 36(4), pp.53-80. 


What Does Codetermination Do?
(with Shakked Noy and Benjamin Schoefer)
ILR Review, 2022, 75 (4), 857-890.


Labor in the Boardroom
(with Benjamin Schoefer and Jörg Heining)
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2021, 136(2), 669-725. Publisher's Version (freely available as editors' choice)
VoxEU SummarySummary for Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate GovernanceIZA NewsroomNBER Digest
Media coverage: Video Illustration (by econimate)Here & Now (NPR)Washington Post/BloombergSloanFAZ (German)


Wages and the Value of Nonemployment 
(with Benjamin Schoefer, Samuel Young, and Josef Zweimüller)
Quarterly Journal of Economics, (2020) 135 (4), 1905-1963. Publishers's VersionSlides


A Permutation Test for the Regression Kink Design
(with Peter Ganong)
Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 113:522, pp. 494-504, 2018. Publisher's Version
Software package rdpermute in Stata: ssc install rdpermute (GitHub repository)


Learning about Job Search: A Field Experiment with Job Seekers in Germany
(with Steffen Altmann, Armin Falk, and Florian Zimmermann)
Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 164, August 2018, pp. 33-49. Publisher's VersionVoxEU Summary


Complex Tax Incentives
(with Johannes Abeler)
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 7 (3):1-28, August 2015. Web AppendixPublisher's Version 


Google Scholar Profile

 

Policy Writing:

Wodurch Europas Arbeitsmärkte dynamischer werden? (German version) 
Comment expliquer que les salaires ne réagissent pratiquement pas au manque de main-d’œuvre? (French version) 
(with Clemens Fuest, Camille Landais, and Nina Roussille)
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Le Monde (2024)


Können höhere Löhne zur Überwindung des Fachkräftemangels beitragen? (with Clemens Fuest) Wirtschaftsdienst 103, no. 4 (2023): 253–258.


Gegen den Fachkräftemangel: Mehr Lohn als Mittel
(with Clemens Fuest)
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 


Einwanderung klug, einfach und fair gestalten: Ein Vorschlag mit doppelter Dividende, (Manuela Barišić, Alan Manning, Mathilde Muñoz, Ulf Rinne, and Jan Stuhler), IZA Standpunkte No. 105. Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), 2023.
 

Codetermination and Power in the Workplace
(with Shakked Noy and Benjamin Schoefer)
Invited policy paper, August 2021 draft
Economic Policy Institute: EPI Unequal Power Project essay series
Journal of Law and Political Economy


Natürliche Experimente im Arbeitsmarkt und darüber hinaus
(with Jörn-Steffen Pischke), Wirtschaftsdienst, 101. Jahrgang, 2021, Heft 12, S. 977–983