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• Events // 16.10.2019

  Using Payroll Tax Variation to Unpack the Black Box of Firm-Level Production

  The paper presented in this Research Seminar uses quasi-experimental variation in payroll tax rates to investigate how firms use their input factors. The paper finds that higher payroll tax rate i
• Events // 02.10.2019

  Roman Transport Network Connectivity and Economic Integration

  We show that the creation of the first integrated pan-European transport network during Roman times influences economic integration over two millennia. Drawing on spatially highly disaggregated data
• Events // 18.09.2019

  The Effects of Affirmative Action on Targeted and Non-Targeted Students Evidence from Low-Income Priorities in Paris High School

  Since 2008, school choice in Paris has an income-based affirmative action component granting low-income students preferential treatment in high school admissions. This policy is implemented as part o
• Events // 04.09.2019

  Labor in the Boardroom

  We estimate the effects of a mandate allocating a third of corporate board seats to workers (shared governance). We study a reform in Germany that swiftly abolished this mandate for certain firms inc
• Events // 29.05.2019

  Optimal Social Assistance and Unemployment Insurance in a Life-Cycle Model of Family Labor Supply and Savings

  The speaker analyzes empirically the optimal mix and optimal generosity of social insurance and assistance programs. For this purpose, we specify a structural life-cycle model of the labor supply,
• Events // 15.05.2019

  Kinship Correlations and Intergenerational Mobility

  We propose a new methodology to estimate long-run intergenerational socioeconomic mobility. Our approach does not require information across multiple generations, but considers different degrees of k
• Events // 08.05.2019

  Dynamic Responses to Immigration

  The speaker analyzes the dynamic effects of immigration by estimating an equilibrium model of local labor markets in the US. The model includes firms in multiple cities and sectors which combine capi
• Events // 10.04.2019

  Minority Salience and Political Extremism

  The presented paper studies electoral effects of exposure to religious minorities in the context of Muslim communities in Germany. Using unique data on mosques’ construction and election results acro
• Events // 20.03.2019

  Promotion Through Connections: Favors or Information?

  Connections appear to be helpful in many contexts such as obtaining a job, a promotion, a grant, a loan or publishing a paper. This may be due either to favor
• Events // 13.03.2019

  The Anatomy of Sorting: Evidence from Denmark

  In this paper, we develop a model of wage dynamics and employment mobility with unrestricted interactions between worker and firm unobserved characteristics in both wages and employment mobility. We