We compare men and women who are displaced from similar jobs by applying an event
study design combined with propensity score matching and reweighting to administrative …

We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for
Germany over the last two decades. Combining personal income tax and social security …

Previous research shows that female managers narrow the gender wage gap (GWG) among
workers but does not disentangle two general underlying mechanisms. First, female …

Recent studies attribute the rise in wage inequality primarily to widening pay disparities
between rather than within firms. I develop a novel theory to quantitatively explain this fact …

Technological change increases the demand for higher skills and fosters wage inequality.
Studies on technological change often emphasize the importance of training to adapt …

Work-related stress has reportedly increased over time. Using worker-level survey and
experimental data, we investigate the labor market consequences of work pressure. We …

We analyze the effects of a large place-based policy, subsidizing up to 50% of investment
costs of manufacturing firms in East Germany after reunification. We show that a 1 …

This paper investigates the gender gap in commuting by differentiating between the place of
residence and work in urban and rural regions. Using administrative geo-referenced data for …

Many couples face a trade-off between advancing one spouse's career or the other's. We
study this trade-off by analyzing the earnings effects of relocation and the effects of a job …

We provide evidence that suggests that a reduction in outside wage options reduces wage
increases in retained jobs. We use the natural experiment of a reform that reduced outside …