Friday Lunch Talk Series
| Date | Presenter | Title |
| 2025 | ||
| 05.12.2025 |
Mantej Pardesi Maastricht University and BIBB |
Career Consequences of Training in Frontier Firms |
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07.11.2025 |
Jesper Eriksen University of Copenhagen |
Making Firms Train: Empirical evidence from a Danish tax reform |
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24.10.2025 |
Sarah McNamara ZEW – Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung |
Heterogeneous Returns to Higher Education and Dropout: A Double-Debiased Machine Learning Approach |
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26.09.2025 |
Thea Zöllner University of Bern and Leading House |
Backlash to Gender Equality? |
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16.05.2025 |
Moritz Mendel Aalto University Helsinki |
Nonstandard Education Careers and Inequality |
| 2024 | ||
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25.10.2024 |
Caroline Neuber-Pohl BiBB |
The role of cognitive and non-cognitive skills in firm productivity |
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18.10.2024 |
Claudio Schilter University of Bern |
Competitive Peers: The Way to Higher Paying Jobs? |
| 20.09.2024 |
Jacob Douglas Light Stanford University |
Student Demand and the Supply of College Courses |
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31.05.2024 |
Katie Caves + Patrick McDonald ETH Zürich |
VET and permeability as necessary factors for education-system equity |
|
19.04.2024 |
Cäcilia Lipowski ZEW |
Keeping Up with the Computers: How Vocational Training Responds to New Technology |
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12.04.2024 |
Valentina Sontheim University of Lucerne |
Locked-in vs. locked-out: The heterogeneous effects of a detracking reform on educational paths |
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08.03.2024 |
Mantej Pardesi Maastricht University and BIBB |
Productivity Convergence and Firm’s Training Strategy |
| 2023 | ||
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03.11.2023 |
Caroline Neuber-Pohl BIBB |
Apprentices, Robots, or Both? The Effects of Automation Technologies on Apprenticeship Markets |
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23.06.2023 |
Mahdi Gholami LMU Munich |
The Impact of Cognitive Skills on Post-Apprenticeship Earnings: The Important Role of the Firm |
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31.05.2023
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Simon Janssen IAB |
The Shelf Life of Incumbent Workers during Accelerating Technological Change: Evidence from a Training Regulation Reform |
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03.03.2023 |
Anne Ardila Brenøe University of Zurich |
Math skills, perceptions of fit, and occupational choice |
|
17.02.2023 |
Sandra McNally CVER-London School of Economics & University of Surrey |
Do Management Practices Matter in Further Education? |
|
10.02.2023 |
Aranya Sritharan ETH Zurich |
Does Familiarity with Vocational and Professional Education Shape Employers’ Educational Preferences in Hiring Processes? |
| 2022 | ||
|
16.12.2022 |
Giuseppe Ippedico UC Davis |
Can Tax Incentives Bring Brains Back? The Effects of Returnees’ Tax Schemes on High-Skilled Migration in Italy |
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04.11.2022 |
Martin Friedrich IAB |
Firm Expansion in Imperfect Labor Markets |
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28.10.2022 |
Markus Nagler University of Erlangen-Nuremberg |
Labor Mobility and the Productivity of Scientists |
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07.10.2022 |
Michael Oberfichtner IAB |
Meeting your caseworkers before or instead of becoming unemployed? Evidence from a field experiment |
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02.09.2022 |
Sönke Matthewes University of Potsdam & Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) |
On track to success? Returns to vocational education in England against its alternatives |
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03.06.2022 |
Ulrike Unterhofer University of Basel |
Peer Effects in Active Labour Market Policies
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13.05.2022 |
Maurizio Strazzeri University of Bern |
Foreign language training and Educational Choices: Evidence from a Curriculum Reform in Switzerland |
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25.03.2022 |
Jürg Schweri Swiss Federal University for Vocational Education and Training (SFUVET) |
Too young to choose - does pupils' age affect their choice for vocational vs. general education? |
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04.03.2022 |
Pascal Hess Maastricht University |
Career counselling and its effects on teenagers’ expectations, job preferences, and early labor market outcomes |
|
17.02.2022 |
Eric Bettinger Stanford University |
The effect of postsecondary institutions on local economies: a bird's-eye view |
|
11.02.2022 |
Caroline Neuber-Pohl Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training, Germany (BIBB) |
The effects of the agreement on the free movement of persons on firms, workers, and apprentices in Germany |
|
28.01.2022 |
Guglielmo Ventura LSE |
Immigration and vocational training: Evidence from the UK |
| 2021 | ||
|
22.10.2021 |
Adrian Lerche Institute for Employment Research (IAB) |
The preference for university education: The role of parental approval |
|
01.10.2021 |
Simon Janssen Institute for Employment Research (IAB) |
Technological change and further training |
|
03.09.2021 |
Jacopo Bassetto Institute for Employment Research (IAB) |
Making integration work? Standardized occupational recognition and migrants' labor market performance |
|
27.08.2021 |
Simone Balestra University of St. Gallen |
Ethnic diversity and occupational choice |
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04.06.2021 |
Christina Langer Harvard Kennedy School |
The economic impact of skills: New evidence from apprenticeship plans |
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07.05.2021 |
Ipek Yükselen Institute for Employment Research (IAB) |
Gender differences in negotiation behavior and role of Information |
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09.04.2021 |
Caroline Wehner Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training, Germany (BIBB) |
Do recruiters select workers with different personality traits for different tasks? A discrete choice experiment |
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26.03.2021 |
Judith Saurer University of Wuerzburg |
Vocational training and refugees: The employer perspective |
|
19.03.2021 |
Nicole Dürrenberger University of Augsburg |
Sozialkapital und Überqualifikation unter Migranten |
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12.03.2021 |
Eric Schuss Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training, Germany (BIBB) |
Finanzielle Anreize zur Ausbildung in der Altenpflege: der Effekt der Ausbildungsumlage auf das Ausbildungsverhalten von Pflegeeinrichtungen |
|
08.01.2021 |
Bernhard Wittek LMU Munich |
EU enlargement and the wage effects of apprentice immigration in Germany |
| 2020 | ||
|
20.11.2020 |
Patrick Chuard-Keller University of St. Gallen |
Switzer-Land of opportunity: Intergenerational income mobility in the land of vocational education |
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13.11.2020 |
Elisabeth Grewenig LMU Munich and ifo Center for the Economics of Education |
Gender norms and labor-supply expectations: Experimental evidence from adolescents |