The Colloquium on Personnel Economics provides a forum for presenting research in all areas of personnel economics – theoretical, empirical, and experimental. Young scientists in particular have the opportunity to present and discuss their academic works, concepts, and new discoveries among...

This paper develops a new class of poverty and inequality measures we call common prosperity. This measure complements existing classes of measures and allows decomposition across income sources or components of consumption expenditure. This framework enables us to study the trade-off between...

This paper studies the association between the levels of individual trust and individual economic performance. I distinguish between generalized trust, a proxy for beliefs about others' trustworthiness, and within-firm trust, i.e. trust in firm management and trust in colleagues. Using rich...

The aim of the course is to give an in-depth overview of the current state and contribution of Responsible Organising research on the key inequality challenges that faces humankind. Responsible Organising (RO) is one of Hanken's four Areas of Strength, which has been evaluated as reaching...

Thematic Workshops: Workshop 1 – Areas of concern and proposals for less unequal worlds Workshop 2 – Unequal access to “invisible or online” education for those who already suffered from unequal access to “visible or in-person” education Workshop 3 – The Pandemic and the growing...

Nauro Campos (University College London) will present his research co-authored with Fabrizio Coricelli (University of Siena, Paris School of Economics and CEPR) and Marco Frigerio (University of Siena) entitled The Political U: New Evidence on Democracy and Income. Jarko Fidrmuc (Zeppelin...

The Colloquium on Personnel Economics provides a forum for presenting research in all areas of personnel economics –theoretical, empirical,and experimental. In particular, young scientists have the opportunity to present and discuss their academic works, concepts,and new discoveries among...

The impact of a disaster on a country or a community is often measured using one aggregate metric: the total cost of the physical damages. While relevant to estimate financial needs for the reconstruction, this single number hardly represents the impact on the poorest people and households, who...

Mit Ausbruch der Covid-19-Pandemie hat sich die Arbeit für viele Beschäftigte ins Homeoffice verlagert. Wurde vor ein paar Monaten noch von einem kurzzeitigen vermehrten Arbeiten im Homeoffice ausgegangen, steht längst fest, dass auch nach der Pandemie ein großer Anteil der Beschäftigten...