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Max Blesch

@maxblesch.bsky.social
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PhD Candidate at Berlin School of Economics | Structural models in public economics & IO

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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
🇩🇪 discusses about part-time work and about its joint taxation of couples. Good! The government's disdain of part time work makes many people angry. But there is a behavioral econ truth to it: people underestimate how part time work obstructs their careers and wages. See our paper 👇🏼 1/4
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Chiara Lacava @chiaralac.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
@maxblesch.bsky.social (@diw.de & @humboldtuni.bsky.social) et al. show that German women are overly optimistic about wage growth from part-time work, leading to higher part-time and flatter wage trajectories. A structural life-cycle model shows this bias significantly impacts earnings and welfare
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