1. Refereed Journal // 2019

    Gender, Informal Employment and Trade Liberalization in Mexico

    We study how import liberalization affects formal employment across gender. The theory offers a mechanism to explain how male and female formal employment shares can respond differently to trade liberalization…

  2. Refereed Journal // 2019

    Policy design for the Anthropocene

    Today, more than ever, ‘Spaceship Earth’ is an apt metaphor as we chart the boundaries for a safe planet1. Social scientists both analyse why society courts disaster by approaching or even overstepping these…

  3. Refereed Journal // 2019

    The losses from integration in matching markets can be large

    Although the integration of two-sided matching markets using stable mechanisms generates expected gains from integration, I show that there are worst case scenarios in which these are negative. The losses…

  4. Refereed Journal // 2019

    Local labor market size and qualification mismatch

    This paper investigates the effect of the size of the local labor market on skill mismatch. Using survey data for Germany, I find that workers in large cities are both less likely to be overqualified for their…