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Economics Department Faculty

Uta Schoenberg

Assistant Professor of Economics
Office: Harkness 230
Phone: (585) 275-0093
Email: utas at mail.rochester.edu

Ph.D. University College London, 2004

Research Interests: Labor Economics, Applied Microeconomics

Publications:

• "Revisiting the German Wage Structure", 2008, with Christian Dustmann and Johannes Ludsteck and Johannes Ludsteck. Conditionally accepted, Quarterly Journal of Economics.
  
  "Online Appendix". This appendix contains, among other findings, a detailed comparison between inequality trends in the IABS and the GSOEP.
  
  This paper was featured in:
  
  1. Financial Times Deutschland, 29.06.2007, " Lohnverhältnisse wie in den USA"
  2. Handelsblatt, 29.06.2007, "Reiche werden reicher, Arme ärmer".


• "Training and Union Wages", with Christian Dustmann. Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming.
• "Testing for Asymmetric Employer Learning", 2007, Journal of Labor Economics, 25, 651-692
• "Wage Growth due to Human Capital Accumulation and Job Search: A Comparison between the United States and Germany", 2007, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 60, 562-586.

Working Papers:

1. "The Effect of Expansions in Leave Coverage on Children’s Long-Term Outcomes", 2008, with Christian Dustmann.
2. "Maternity Leave Legislation, Female Labor Supply, and the Family Wage Gap", 2007, with Johannes Ludsteck.

This paper was featured in:
1. Handelsblatt, 29. October 2007, "Wem hilft es, wenn Mütter zu Hause bleiben?"
2. Die ZEIT, 8. November 2007, "Gefragt- Uta Schoenberg", Chancen. (not available online).


3. "How General is Human Capital? A Task-Based Approach", 2007, with Christina Gathmann.
4. "Apprenticeship Training and Commitment to Training Provision" , 2007, with Christian Dustmann.

Courses :

• Eco 207 : Intermediate Microeconomics
• Eco 502 : Topics in Labor Economics

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