Markus Nagler
Assistant Professor of Economics
Fields
Education
Innovation
Labor
Welcome!
I am an assistant professor of economics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. I am also an affiliate member of the CESifo Research Network (Labor Economics), an associate member of the LASER Research Network at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, and a fellow of the Schöller Research Center for Business and Society.
I will be visiting the Centre for Economic Performance at LSE in March 2023.
You can find my CV here and my Google Scholar Profile here.
Workplace Stress and Earnings
Are workers compensated for workplace stress?
High-Pressure, High-Paying Jobs
(with Erwin Winkler and Johannes Rincke)
Work-related stress has reportedly increased over time. Using worker-level survey data, we build a measure of work pressure strongly associated with adverse health outcomes. In line with theories of compensating differentials, work pressure comes with a sizable earnings premium, even within narrowly defined occupations. As expected, we find no premium among civil servants who face strong labor market frictions. In complementary stated-choice experiments, we uncover a substantial willingness-to-pay to avoid work pressure. Our evidence is consistent with workers sorting into high- and low-pressure jobs. Differences in the prevalence and valuation of work pressure explain a substantial share of wage inequality.
CESifo Working Paper No. 10102
The Amenity Value of Work from Home
How much are workers willing to pay to work from home?
(with Erwin Winkler and Johannes Rincke)
Working from home (WFH) has become ubiquitous around the world. Using a stated-preference experiment among German employees, we estimate workers’ valuation of WFH and its interaction with other job attributes. We show that workers are willing to give up 7.7% of their earnings for WFH. The value of WFH is significantly higher in the presence of a flexible work schedule,
suggesting that employees view WFH and schedule flexibility as complements. The willingness-to-pay for WFH steeply increases with commuting distance. WFH reduces (but does not close) the gender gap in willingness-to-pay to avoid commuting.
CESifo Working Paper No. 10073
Publications
Fostering the Diffusion of General Purpose Technologies: Evidence from the Licensing of the Transistor Patents
(with Monika Schnitzer and Martin Watzinger)
Journal of Industrial Economics, forthcoming
Coverage: VoxEU, FAU alexander (in German)
Tutoring in (Online) Higher Education: Experimental evidence
(with David Hardt and Johannes Rincke)
Economics of Education Review 92: 102350 (2023)
Can Peer Mentoring Improve Online Teaching Effectiveness? An RCT During the COVID-19 Pandemic
(with David Hardt and Johannes Rincke)
Labour Economics 78: 102220 (2022)
ICT, Collaboration, and Innovation: Evidence from BITNET
(with Kathrin Wernsdorf and Martin Watzinger)
Journal of Public Economics 211: 104678 (2022)
Disclosure and Subsequent Innovation: Evidence from the Patent Depository Library Program
(with Jeffrey L. Furman and Martin Watzinger)
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 13(4): 239-270 (2021)
Coverage: Brookings, Written Description, CATO Research Brief, VoxEU, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Report "Safeguarding the Bioeconomy", Matt Clancy's New Things Under the Sun, AEA Chart of the Week, Update in Matt Clancy's New Things Under the Sun
How Antitrust Enforcement Can Spur Innovation: Bell Labs and the 1956 Consent Decree
(with Martin Watzinger, Thomas Fackler, and Monika Schnitzer)
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 12(4): 328-359 (2020)
AEJ:Policy Best Paper Award 2021
Coverage: YouTube-EEA, Vox, Latest Thinking, New York Times, The Register, The American Prospect, Center for American Progress, Wired, Gilbert: "Innovation Matters: Competition Policy for the High-Technology Economy", AEA Chart of the Week, FAU alexander (in German), ifo Schnelldienst (in German), Works in Progress
Weak Markets, Strong Teachers: Recession at Career Start and Teacher Effectiveness
(with Marc Piopiunik and Martin R. West)
Journal of Labor Economics 38(2): 453-500 (2020)
Coverage: BBC News, Washington Post, Education Week, Elite Network of Bavaria (in German), Harvard GSE News, The 74, NBER Reporter: Education Program Report, National Council on Teacher Quality, The Economist, Education Next, The Education Exchange, Haaretz (in Hebrew)
The Disciplinary Effect of Post-Grant Review: Causal Evidence from European Patent Opposition
(with Stefan Sorg)
Research Policy 49(3): 103915 (2020)
(with Sascha O. Becker and Ludger Woessmann)
Journal of Economic Growth 22(3): 273–311 (2017)
Workshop Organization
Co-Organizer, JHS Workshop Future of Labor 2022
Co-Organizer, 20th Bavarian Micro Day 2022
Co-Organizer, FAU Applied Micro Research Workshop
Co-Organizer, IAB-FAU Labor Reading Group
Co-Organizer, CRC190 Workshop Future of Labor 2019
Co-Organizer, EBE Summer Meeting 2016
Contact me
You can reach me at markus.nagler _at_ fau.de
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