Possible Topics:
• The Price of Tax Exemption: How Tribal Cannabis Stores Reshape Local Markets (Hase)
• Do unions reduce the ethnic wage gap? (Hase)
• Does the minimum wage reduce the ethnic wage gap? (Hase)
• The homeownership gap between immigrants and natives and heterogeneous impacts of homeownership on life satisfaction (Liang)
• COVID-19, working from home and wage inequality (Liang)
• Exposure to flooding risks and geographic labor mobility/internal migration. (Moog)
• Do household income shocks lead to divorces and unstable families? (Moog)
• The effect of having internet at home on the probability to move to another location (Schank)
• The effect of having internet at home on people’s social behavior (Schank)
• The effect of the public smoking ban in Germany on people’s propensity to go out (Schank)
• Is the public smoking ban in Germany good or bad for pubs and restaurants? (Schank)
• The effect of public holidays on worker productivity (Schank)
• The effect of team diversity (in respect of e.g. age, nationality, experience) on team performance in the German soccer/ volleyball league (Voigt)
• Value inheritance: The effect of parents' academic values on children's ambitions (Voigt)
• Does the presence of children reduce the amount of training on the job and what is the associated wage penalty? (Carow)
• Determinants of the duration of parental leaves of fathers (Carow)
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Thesis currently in process:
• The Impact of Flood Disasters on Housing Markets: Evidence from the 2013 Floods in Germany (Julian Wüst)
Completed dissertations:
• The effect of parental leave reforms on the within-family wage gap in Germany (Liudmila Trifonova)
• Workplace exposure to artificial intelligence, wage growth and employment: Individual-level evidence from Germany (Julia Runkel)
• Employment responses to changing gas prices (Jan Lucas Wilhelm)
• Evaluating potentials of synthetic dataset provision for research and statistical offices in Germany (Yannik Garcia Ritz)
• Trends in immigrant-native wage inequality in Germany (Thorsten Aron)
• Der Einfluss des gesetzlichen Mindestlohnes in Deutschland auf Stundenlöhne und Monatseinkommen (Lars Chittka)
• Does the minimum wage reduce the ethnic wage gap? (Hira Kücük)
• Internet access and school performance: evidence from the German SOEP (Joao Felipe Mayer Saucedo)
• The effect of gender diverse supervisory boards on the gender remuneration gap at executive boards: An empirical analysis for Germany (Benedikt Brand)
• Determinants of paid and unpaid overtime: an international comparison of Germany and the UK (Julia Hörsch)
• Determinants and dynamics in multiple job holding - evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel (Alexander Moog)
• The effect of low-emission zones on air quality in German cities (Sebastian Gradel)
• The impact of German minimum wage policy on workers subjective well-being (Maria del Pilar Triana Torres)
• The impact of German minimum wage policy on the gender wage gap (Laura Fleckenstein)
• The effect of working hours mismatch on job satisfaction: evidence for workers with children (Daniela Maier)
• Determinants of success in sports -the influence of visitors on the results of professional soccer matches (Christian Orthey)
• Out of sight out of mind - the effects of former loan agreements on future transfer fees within European Football (Tiago Pereira)
• The effect of team diversity on team performance in the German soccer league (Vasil Yordanov)
• The effect of the Volkswagen emission scandal on the sales of different automobile brands (Jonas Jähnke)
• The effect of women on supervisory boards on the employees' gender wage gap. Evidence from German linked employee-plant-firm data (Johannes Carow)
• Determinants of flight irregularities: an empirical analysis for Lufthansa Technik (Tobias Hausmann)
• Using Monte Carlo simulations to compare OLS and Matching estimators (Maximilian Lüke)
• The development of wage inequality in Germany from 2006 to 2016 - comparison of results based on the GSOEP and the GSES (Rebekka Schnitzler)
• The effect of gender diverse supervisory boards on top executive's compensation in Germany: An empirical analysis (Laura Bilavski)
• Labour market returns to physical exercise in Germany. An empirical analysis (Matthias Dincher)
• The effects of regional allocation of refugees on local voting outcomes - empirical evidence from the 2016 regional elections in Hesse (Germany) (Mathias Lück)
• Do women participate less in further education? (Linh Hoang)
• Determinants of internal and external job promotion - an empirical analysis with German SOEP data (Nicole Nelling)
• The effect of parental age at birth on educational outcomes and wages: an empirical analysis with the German SOEP (Marc Diederichs)
• The relationship of board gender diversity and stock price informativeness: an empirical analysis of the DAX 160 companies (Stephan Eck)
• Does the German statutory minimum wage affect working hours? An empirical investigation (Christian Düben)
• Are employees with fixed-term contracts less absent from work than employees with permanent contracts? An empirical analysis using the German Socio-Economic Panel (Hannah Schwabl)
• The role of aid to the health sector in attracting FDI: empirical evidence from Africa (Franziska Ulrich)
• Using simulations to evaluate different econometric methods to estimate dynamic non-linear models (Alexander Basan)
• Gender diversity, critical mass and firm performance: new evidence from German boardrooms (Vera Steitz)
• Job search behavior of unemployment-benefit-II recipients. An empirical analysis using PASS (Lenin Castillo)
• Has internet increased the job finding rate? An empirical analysis (Manuel Denzer)
• Using simulations to evaluate different methods to estimate binary response models with a binary endogenous explanatory variable (Annelen Carow)
• Do wages rise more in large firms? Evidence for Germany (Ying Liang)
• The effect of smoking behavior on labor market and health outcomes (Yingjie Huang)
• Strategic alliances among venture backed companies - empirical evidence from biotechs (Leonhard Brinster)
• Persistence in welfare-receipt. An empirical analysis using the panel study "Labour Market and Social Security" (PASS) (Stefan Schwarz)
• What are the determinants of rent prices in Germany? An empirical analysis (Sarim Khalid)
• Job mobility and risk aversion. An empirical analysis using the German Socio-Economic Panel (Sandra Achten)
• The impact of natural resources on economic growth using simulated maximum likelihood methods to estimate country-specific coefficients (Giacomo Benini)
• Institutional change, openness and development: evidence from Africa (Felix Giorgio Amato)
• Trade liberalization and price pass-through: evidence from the world coffee market (Victor Gimenez Perales)
• Analysis of the impact of health facility condition on educational outcomes of elementary school students: evidence from Uganda (Jan-Stephen Welsch)
• An analysis of forecasting methods with the example of the German GDP forecasting (Christian Endres)
• Does winning today increase the chances of winning tomorrow? An empirical analysis of football data (Julius Nick)
• Determinanten der CDS-Spreads - eine dynamische Paneldatenanalyse - (Jörg Geier)
• Women labor force participation and economic development: evidence from developing countries (Farhan Azmat)
• Die Determinanten nationaler Migration (Samir Ben Naceur, Diplom)
• Human capital and its impact - income differentials between Bachelor, Master and Diploma graduates (Nora Nickig)
• Children and their parents labor supply: evidence from Germany (Eni Bilbili)
• The determinants of China's urban house price: evidence from provincial panel data in mainland China (Fan Yang)
• The construction of a regional price index for the German federal state of Hesse (Stefanie Käuser und Mathias Bieg)
• To move or not to move: the effects of wage, unemployment and house price differentials on the interregional migration decision in Germany (Lorna Syme)
• Wage and employment effects of immigration to Russia (Evgenia Poliakova)
• Theory and empirical applications of the European airline market (Chunxiao Ma)
• An analysis of the economic transition and income inequality in China (Xiaoli Jiang)
• Horizontale Unternehmenszusammenschlüsse: Motive und Wohlfahrtseffekte (Atahar Ahmad, Diplom)
• Auswirkungen von aktivierender Arbeitsmarktpolitik im Rahmen von Such- und Matchingmodellen (Patrick Könsgen, Diplom)
• Labour market dynamics of couples receiving welfare. An empirical analysis using PASS (Lisa Leschnig)
• Die Lohnkurve: eine empirische Schätzung mit Daten der Verdienststrukturerhebung 2006 (Thorsten Ritter, Diplom)
• Studentische Preisdiskriminierung am Mainzer Staatstheater (Sarah Anna Mediouni, Diplom)
• Eine Analyse der Reaktion des deutschen Arbeitsmarktes auf die Finanzkrise (Daniel Vorreiter, Diplom)
• Preisdiskriminierung im Schienenpersonenfernverkehr: Eine ökonomische Analyse in Theorie und Praxis – unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des InterConnex“ (Vera Plachetka, Diplom)