Research
Research Interests
Labor Economics, Behavioral Economics, Applied Microeconomics, Applied Econometrics
Publications
The Direct and Indirect Effects of Online Job Search Advice (with S. Altmann, A. Glenny and A. Sebald, conditionally accepted at Review of Economic Studies, current version)
Do Job Seekers Understand the UI Benefit System (and Does It Matter)? (with S. Altmann, S. Cairo and A. Sebald, conditionally accepted at Journal of the European Economic Association, current version)
Job Search, Overoptimism and Statistical Profiling: Can Statistical Profiling Improve Job Seekers' Reemployment Prospects? (with N. Harmon and M. Rasmussen, conditionally accepted at The Economic Journal, current version)
The Intended and Unintended Effects of Promoting Labor Market Mobility (2026), Review of Economics and Statistics, 108(2), 421-435 (with M. Caliendo & S. Künn)
The Disparate Effects of Information Provision: A Field Experiment on the Work Incentives of Social Welfare (2023), Journal of Public Economics, 226, 104987 (with S. Cairo)
Side Effects of Labor Market Policies (2023), Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 125(2), 339–375, 2023 (with M. Caliendo, G. van den Berg and J. Vikström)
The Return to Labor Market Mobility: An Evaluation of Relocation Assistance for the Unemployed (2017), Journal of Public Economics, 148, 136-151 (with M. Caliendo and S. Künn)
Unobservable, but Unimportant? The Relevance of Usually Unobserved Variables for the Evaluation of Labor Market Policies (2017), Labour Economics, 46, 14-25 (with M. Caliendo and O. Mitnik)
The Gender Wage Gap and the Role of Reservation Wages: New Evidence for Unemployed Workers (2017), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 136, 161-173 (with M. Caliendo and W.-S. Lee)
Home-Ownership, Unemployed’s Job Search Behavior and Post-Unemployment Outcomes (2015), Economics Letters, 137, 218-221 (with M. Caliendo and A. Gielen)
Working Papers
The Accuracy of Job Seekers' Wage Expectations (with M. Caliendo, A. Schmeisser and S. Wagner, revision requested at Journal of Public Economics, current draft)
Unemployment Narratives (with S. Settele and J. Wohlfart, current version)
Wage Expectations and Job Search (with S. Altmann, M. Rattenborg, A. Sebald, S. Settele and J. Wohlfart, CESifo Working Paper 12420)
Mental Models of High School Success (with T. Hübsch, P. Pinger, S. Settele and H. Willadsen, CESifo Working Paper 12497)
Which Occupations do Unemployed Workers Target? Insights from Online Job Search Profiles (with S. Altmann, M. Rattenborg and A. Sebald, IZA Discussion Paper No. 16696)
Firing Costs and the Stock Market (with R. Weber, current version)