We study how public school teachers use paid sick leave. Most U.S. sick leave schemes operate as individualized credit accounts – paid leave is earned and unused leave accumulates, producing an employee-specific…
This paper documents the evolution of labor earnings and earnings dynamics in Greece during 2002–2023 using administrative matched employer–employee data from the Greek social security system. The data span the…
Economic strength and social development hinge on our ability to identify and harness existing potential. What is crucial is an environment that empowers people, opens opportunities and secures long-term…
This paper provides new causal evidence on how patent allowances affect firms and their employees based on quasi-random assignment of patent applications to examiners. Exploiting employer–employee records with…
This paper analyzes the local economic impacts of troop deployments. We exploit variation from the historic large-scale US troop withdrawal from Germany triggered by the end of the Cold War, to estimate the…
This paper investigates whether the local economic effects of niche university actors depend on regional context. Focusing on private university campuses in Germany, it exploits their staggered foundation…
Public procurement is widely regarded as an important instrument to foster innovation. We examine how additional award criteria beyond price relate to firms’ realized innovation performance by combining…
