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• Events // 27.11.2024

  Labor Mobility and the Level of Unemployment in a Currency Union

  Unemployment rates are substantially higher and more volatile in the euro area relative to the United States. The paper presented in this Mannheim Applied Seminar asks to what extent the lack of c
• Events // 13.11.2024

  Long-Term Consequences of Air Pollution Does Age or Years of Exposure Matter?

  The paper presented in this Mannheim Applied Seminar examines the long-term impacts of early childhood exposure to pollution by leveraging the sharp decrease in imported sulfur dioxide – the prima
• Events // 06.11.2024

  Expected Re-Employment Wages and Job Search

  The paper presented in this Mannheim Applied Seminar examines how job seekers' subjective beliefs about re-employment wages affect their perceived labor market prospects, job search behavior and l
• Events // 04.12.2024

  The Death and Life of Great British Cities

  The paper presented in this Mannheim Applied Seminar studies how cities’ industrial structure shapes their life and death. The authors‘ analysis exploits the large heterogeneity in the early compo
• Events // 20.11.2024

  Worker Absences and Demand for Flexible Contracts

  Worker absenteeism and high turnover remain common problems in developing labor markets, even while the unemployment rate is high (Allen 1981, Leigh 1983, Benavides et al. 2000). In India, the abs
• Events // 16.10.2024

  Industrial and Trade Policy in Supply Chains The Case of Rare Earth Elements

  Industrial policies, traditionally aimed at boosting the competitiveness of protected sectors, can inadvertently drive productivity growth in downstream sectors abroad. The paper presented in this
• Events // 09.10.2024

  Listen to Her Gender Differences in Information Diffusion within the Household

  The paper presented in this Mannheim Applied Seminar studies how economic information diffuses within the household, leveraging an information-provision experiment with a representative sample of
• Events // 02.10.2024

  Birth Timing and Spacing Implications for Parental Leave Dynamics and Child Penalties

  The paper presented in this Mannheim Applied Seminar uses rich population-level administrative data from Denmark to develop new facts about the relationship between the timing and spacing of birth
• Events // 23.10.2024

  Spatial Spillovers of Violent Conflict

  The paper presented in this Mannheim Applied Seminar investigates how the food transportation network and price system propagate effects of violent conflict to distant locations. Conflict along tr
• Events // 25.09.2024

  The Cold War and US Labor Markets

  The paper presented in this Mannheim Applied Seminar argues that the Cold War contributed to the equitable and tight labor markets of the post-war decades. On the labor-demand side, the authors is