UTA SCHÖNBERG

PUBLICATIONS

• “Do Place-Based Tax Incentives Create Jobs?”, 2020, with Hyejin Ku and Ragnhild Schreiner. Journal of Public Economics, 191, 104105.

  

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• "Spillover Effects of Mass Layoffs", 2020, with Christina Gathmann and Ines Helm. Journal of the European Economic Association, 18, 427-468.

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• “Productivity Growth, Wage Growth, and Unions", 2018, with Alice Kügler and Ragnhild Schreiner. In: "Price and Wage-Setting in Advanced Economies", European Central Bank Conference Proceedings.

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                       Link to VoxEU article

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                       Selected Media coverage: New York Times

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                       Presentation, ECB Forum, Sintra, June 2018

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• "Who Benefits from Universal Child Care? Estimating Marginal Returns to Early Child Care Attendance", 2018, with Thomas Cornelissen, Christian Dustmann and Anna Raute. Journal of Political Economy, 126, 2356-2409.

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              Presented at invited sessions at the EALE/SOLE in Montreal and the EEA in Mannheim.

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                       Link to VoxEU article

                       Link to Makronom article

                       Link to Okonomenstimme article

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                      Selected Media Coverage:  Spiegel, FAZ, iNews, Liberation

             

       

• “The Long-Term Effects of Early Track Choice”, 2017, with Christian Dustmann and Patrick Puhani. Economic Journal, 127, 1348-1380.

                    

                       Link to VoxEU article

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                       Selected Media Coverage: FAZ (4.3.2014; edotrial), Suddeutsche Zeitung (4.3.2014), 

                                                                   Stuttgarter Zeitung (6.3.2014), Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung

                                                                   (4.3.2014), Wirtschaftwoche

                                                                

                                                           

• "On the Economics and Politics of Refugee Migration", 2017, with Christian Dustmann, Francesco Fasani, Tommaso Frattini, and Luigi Minale. Economic Policy, Special Issue on Refugee Migration, 32, 497-550.

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• "Peer Effects in the Workplace", 2017, with Thomas Cornelissen and Christian Dustmann. American Economic Review, 107, 425-456.   

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                       Online Appendix

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• "Labor Supply Shocks, Native Wages, and the Adjustment of Local Employment", 2017, with Christian Dustmann and Jan Stuhler. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 132, 435-483.

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                       Online Appendix

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• "The Impact of Migration: Why Do Studies Find Such Different Results", 2016, with Christian Dustmann and Jan Stuhler. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 30, 31-56.

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                       Companion Appendix

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• "From LATE to MTE: Alternative Methods for the Evaluation of Policy Interventions", 2016, with Thomas Cornelissen, Christian Dustmann and Anna Raute. Labour Economics, 41, 47-60.

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•  "Referral-Based Job Search Networks", 2016, with Christian Dustmann, Albrecht Glitz and Herbert Brücker. Review of Economic Studies, 83, 514-546.

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•  "From the `Sick Man of Europe’ to the `Economic Superstar’: Germany's Resurgent Economy”, 2014, with Christian Dustmann, Bernd Fitzenberger and Alexandra Spitz-Oener. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 28, 167-188.

             

                            Link  to VoxEU article

                          Link to Harvard Business Review arrticle, written by my co-author Alexandra Spitz-Oener

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                          Reprinted in: Explaining Germany's exceptional recovery: A new eBook, Vox eBook.

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                         Selected Media Coverage: Spiegel online (2.4.2014), Die Welt (3.2.2014),  FT blogs

                                                                     (4.2.2014), BBC News  (13.2.2014),

                                                                     Alternatives Economiques (6.3.2014), Der Bund (26.5.2014),

                                                                     Die Welt  (29.6.2014), Panorama (8.2.2018)

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• "Expansions in Maternity Leave Coverage and Mothers’ Labor Market Outcomes after Childbirth", 2014, with Johannes Ludsteck. Journal of Labor Economics, 32, 469-505 .

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                         Selected Media Coverage: Zeit online 

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•  "The Effect of Expansions in Leave Coverage on Children's Long-Term Outcomes", 2012, with Christian Dustmann. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 4, 190-224. 

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                         Online Appendix

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                         Selected Media Coverage: Handelsblatt (29.10.2007), Spiegel online (19.7.2008), N24

                                                                     (19.7.2008, reprinted in e.g. Suddeutsche Zeitung, Financial

                                                                     Times, Welt online)

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•  "What Makes Firm-Based Vocational Training Schemes Successful? The Role of Commitment", 2012, with Christian Dustmann. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 4, 36-61.

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• "Ethnicity and Educational Achievement in Compulsory Schooling", 2010, with Christian Dustmann and Steve Machin. Economic Journal Features, 120, F272-F292. 

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                         Online Appendix (includes findings for Mathematics test scores).

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                         Media Coverage: Daily Mail

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•  "How General is Human Capital? A Task-Based Approach", 2010, with Christina Gathmann. Journal of Labor Economics, 28, 1-49. (Lead article).

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•  "Revisiting the German Wage Structure ", 2009, with Christian Dustmann and Johannes Ludsteck. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 124, 843-881. 

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                        Online Appendix (compares inequality trends in the German Socio-Economic Panel and the

                                  IAB Employment Sample).

                         

                          Selected Media Coverage: Financial Times Deutschland (28.6.2007), wiisen.de (28.6.2007),

                                                                            Handelsblatt (29.7.2007), Stuttgarter Zeitung (29.1.2007), Focus

                                                                            online (29.6.2007), Frankfurter Rundschau (25.9.2007)

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•  "Training and Union Wages", 2009, jointly with Christian Dustmann. Review of Economics and Statistics, 91, 363-376.

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•  "Does the IAB Employment Sample Reliably Identify Maternity Leave Taking? A Data Report", 2009, Journal for Labor Market Research, 42, 49-70.

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•  "Testing for Asymmetric Employer Learning", 2007, Journal of Labor Economics, 25, 651-692.

 

•  "Wage Growth due to Human Capital Accumulation and Job Search: A Comparison between the United States and Germany", 2007, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 60, 562-586.

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