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WORK IN PROGRESS
- “Parental Leave From The Firm Perspective”, joint with Gozde Corekcioglu (Ozyegin University) and Marco Francesconi (University of Essex). NHH Discussion Paper Series (DP no. 11), IZA (DP no. 17893), CESifo (DP no. 11), CEPR (DP no. 20282). New revised version: “Long-Run Firm Adjustments to Parental Leave”, Sept. 2026. Available on request! – Submitted.
- “Firms and the Gender Wage Gap: A Comparison of Eleven Countries“, joint with Marco G. Palladino (Bank of France), Antoine Bertheau (NHH), Alexander Hijzen (OECD), Cesar Barreto, Dogan Gülümser, Marta Lachowska, Anne Sophie Lassen, Salvatore Lattanzio, Benjamin Lochner, Stefano Lombardi, Jordy Meekes, Balazs Murakozy and Oskar Nordstöm Skans. – Invited to revise and resubmit to the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.
- Link to the talk by Marco P. at the NBER Summer Institute 2025
- NEW! “Gendered Leadership and Early Hiring in New Ventures”, joint with Bram Timmermans (Norwegian School of Economics), June 2026, available on request. Invited to revise and resubmit at Human Resource Management
- “Boss Effects in the Labor Market”, joint with Christina Gathmann (LISER and University of Luxembourg) and Natella Agikyan (LISER and University of Luxembourg)
PUBLICATIONS
- Kunze, Astrid; Marta Palczyńska (Institute for Structural Research (IBS)) and Iga Magda (Institute for Structural Research (IBS)) (2026): “Gender differences in the effectiveness of hiring subsidies for young unemployed“, Labour Economics. Access Here.
- Kunze, Astrid and Katrin Scharfenkamp (2026): “The Importance of co-determination for Gender Diversity in The Boardroom“, Industrial Relations, 65, pp.121-131.
- I discussed this paper in a chronicle in the Norwegian business newspaper Dagens Næringsliv: Link.
- Kunze, Astrid (2024): “Claudia Goldin: Nobel Laureate 2023 and Her Impact on Understanding Women’s Position in the Labour Market“, Beta, 38(1), pp. 1-13.
- Corekcioglu, Gozde; Marco Francesconi and Astrid Kunze (2024): “Expansion in Paid Parental Leave and Mothers’ Economic Progress”, European Economic Review, 169, pp. 1-20.
Covered in the research brief by the CATO Institute. Link
- Kunze, Astrid (2022): “Parental Leave and Maternal Employment”, IZA World of Labor.
