Andrea Weber


Contact information

RWI Essen
Hohenzollernstraße 1-3

45128 Essen

Germany

Tel: +49 201 8149 205           

E-mail: andrea.weber@rwi-essen.de

 

Curriculum Vitae

New Working Papers

Female Hires and the Success of Start-up Firms, American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, forthcoming, (2010), with Christine Zulehner

Competition and Gender Prejudice: Are Discriminatory Employers Doomed to Fail?, with Christine Zulehner

Active Labor Market Policy Evaluations: A Meta-analysis, with David Card and Jochen Kluve, revise and resubmit EJ

 

Published Papers

The Effects of Marginal Employment on Subsequent Labour Market Outcomes (2010), German Economic Review, forthcoming, (joint with Rene Böheim)

Do Wages Compensate for Anticipated Working Time Restrictions? Evidence from Seasonal Employment in Austria, (2008), Journal of Labor Economics, 26(1), 181-221 (with Emilia Del Bono)

Cash-on-Hand and Competing Models of Intertemporal Behavior: New Evidence from the Labor Market (2007),  Quarterly Journal of Economics, 122(4), 1511-1560 (with David Card and Raj Chetty)

[NBER working paper version with additional results here]

The Spike at Benefit Exhaustion: Leaving the Unemployment System or Starting a New Job? (2007),  American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 97(2), 113-118 (with David Card and Raj Chetty)

[NBER working paper version with additional results here]

Choice and Success of Job Search Methods, (2007), Empirical Economics, 35, 153-178 (with Helmut Mahringer)

[IZA working paper version  here]

Sectoral Adjustment of Employment to Shifts in Outsourcing and Trade: Evidence from a Dynamic Fixed Effects Multinomial Logit Model, (with Peter Egger and Michael Pfaffermayr), Journal of Applied Econometrics, forthcoming.

Active Labor Market Policy in Austria: Practice and Evaluation Results. (2006), DIW Quarterly Journal of Economic Research, 75, 155-167, (joint with Helmut Hofer)

The Austrian Severance Payments Reform, (2005), Empirica, 32, 255-274, (joint with Reinhard Koman and Ullrich Schuh)

Wage Mobility in Austria 1986 – 1996, (2002), Labour Economics, 9, 563-577, (joint with Helmut Hofer).

Vacancy Durations: a Model for Employer’s Search, (2000), Applied Economics, 32, 1069-1075.

Working Papers

Clash of Career and Family: Fertility Decisions after Job Displacement, with Emilia Del Bono and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer, IZA Discussion Paper No. 3272, revise and resubmit JEEA

Employment Effects of Early Interventions on Job Search Programs, (2004), IZA Discussion Paper No. 1076, (with Helmut Hofer)

Are Job Search Programs a Promising Tool? A Microeconometric Evaluation for Austria, (2003), IZA Discussion Paper No. 1075, (with Helmut Hofer). 

State Dependence and Wage Dynamics: a Heterogeneous Markov Chain Model for Wage Mobility in Austria, (2002), working paper IHS Economic Series, Nr. 114.

Research

Abstracts and Work in Progress

Teaching at UC Berkeley

Wage Theory and Policy

Applied Econometrics