Equal opportunities are regarded as a core value of modern societies – but how significant is their influence on economic success? A new ZEW study shows that when educational opportunities are distributed more…
Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings
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2026
Die Akademisierung seit der Jahrtausendwende hat Fachkräfteengpässe in akademischen Berufen verringert. Mehr akademisch gebildete Fachkräfte könnten aber die Löhne senken. Es stellt sich die Frage, ob sich ein…
The circumstances into which individuals are born can place fundamental constraints on their future economic opportunities, leading to a mismatch between talent, education and occupation. One major determinant…
Many countries limit how long a worker may be kept on a temporary contract, yet little is known about how firms and workers respond when this maximum duration is tightened. Does a shorter cap simply displace…
We revisit the employer size wage effect (ESWE)—arguably the most basic and influential departure from the law of one price for labor. Our main result is that this canonical fact disappears completely across…
This article examines the economics of paid sick leave from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. Research on paid sick leave has evolved dynamically over the last decade, primarily driven by the spread…
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…
