Publications of the Research Group Inequality and Public Policy

  1. Refereed Journal // 2024

    How unemployment benefit duration shapes startup motivation and growth

    Business creation is economically important, and unemployment precedes the creation of a substantial share of new firms. Yet, most research has focused on analyzing the effects of unemployment insurance policies…

  2. Non-Refereed Journal // 2024

    How Corruption Fuels Inequality in China: Graft on a Staggering Scale Warps the Country’s Economy

    After Chinese President Xi Jinping rose to power in 2012, his government launched a sweeping anticorruption campaign that attracted worldwide attention for its scope and determination. Powerful figures, long…

  3. Refereed Journal // 2024

    Unemployment effects of the German minimum wage in an equilibrium job search model

    We structurally estimate an equilibrium search model using German administrative data and use the model for counterfactual analyses of a uniform minimum wage. The model with worker and firm heterogeneity does…

  4. Refereed Journal // 2024

    Anti-corruption campaign in China: An empirical investigation

    We create a database of officials who have been found guilty of corruption in China in the period 2012-21 with their personal characteristics and the amount of embezzled funds. We use it to investigate the…

  5. Refereed Journal // 2024

    The impact of Communist Party membership on wealth distribution and accumulation in urban China

    This paper provides the first in-depth investigation into the evolution of the wealth gap between CCP and non-CCP households in urban China from 1995 to 2017. We apply unconditional quantile regression to…