Workshops and conferences

Workshop 'Perspectives for Future Research on European Urban Development'

Cities all over the world have a very prominent function for generating creativity and economic growth. The institutional conditions for this function differ a lot between nations, not least between Russia and Germany. The Workshop shall promote the exchange of research results on the impact of these differences on the local economy. The main focus is laid on the urban system in Russia.

IWH Research Seminar

Monopsony Makes Firms Not Only Small but Also Unproductive: Why East-Germany Has Not Converged

When employers face a trade-off between growing large and paying low wages — that is, when they have monopsony power — some productive employers will decide to acquire fewer customers, forgo sales, and remain small.

IWH Research Seminar

Virtual Lecture: Wage Inequality in Germany after the Minimum Wage Introduction

IWH Research Seminar

Virtual Lecture: Geographic inequality in income and mortality in Germany

IWH Research Seminar

Trade Exposure and the Decline in Collective Bargaining: Evidence from Germany

We analyse whether the increase in trade exposure induced by the rise of China and the transformation of Eastern Europe has been a driver of the severe decline in collective bargaining coverage rates among German establishments from the mid 1990s onwards, which has been identified as a major source of rising wage inequality in Germany.

IWH Research Seminar

Adjusting to Globalization – Evidence from Worker-establishment Matches in Germany

This paper addresses the impact of rising international trade exposure on individual earnings profiles in heterogeneous worker-establishment matches.