Category: Podcast
Project Leader Albrecht Glitz on Globalisation, Welfare and Economic Espionage
Listen on In this podcast, project leader Albrecht Glitz, an associate professor at the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, shares his journey as a labor economist with a unique twist: a research interest in espionage. Albrecht’s research is based on...
Project Leader Guido Friebel on Boosting Business: the Impact of Worker Representation
Listen on Project Leader Guido Friebel, professor of human resources at Goethe University in Frankfurt, discusses his research on co-determination within firms with a focus on Denmark’s model of worker committees. These committees, distinct from traditional worker councils, emphasize cooperation...
Project Leader Sascha Becker on Understanding Regional Inequalities: Technology, Education and Policies for Levelling Up
Listen on Project Leader Sascha Becker is a professor of economics and Xiaokai Yang Chair of Business and Economics at Monash University, Melbourne and part-time professor at the University of Warwick in England. In this podcast, Sascha discusses project at...
Project Leader Thomas Cornelissen on Knowledge Spillover and Individual Careers
Listen on In this podcast, Project Leader Thomas Cornelissen, Professor of Economics from the University of Essex, discusses his research project funded by the ROCKWOOL Foundation. Thomas is motivated by the evolving nature of work and the increasing importance of...
Project Leader Jérôme Adda on Globalisation and the Spread of Diseases
Listen on In this podcast, we explore the research of Jérôme Adda, an Economics professor at Bocconi and Project Leader at RFBerlin. Jérôme discusses his ROCKWOOL Foundation-funded projects, combining his background in biology with economics. The first project tackles the...
Deputy Director Tommaso Frattini on the Global Migration Information Hub
Listen on Tommaso Frattini is a Deputy Director of RFBerlin and a Professor of Economics at University of Milan. In this episode he introduces Global Migration Information Hub (GMIH), an initiative to disseminative knowledge on migration. By piecing together data...
Deputy Director Alexandra Spitz-Oener on technology adoption and the changing nature of work
Listen on Alexandra Spitz-Oener, Deputy Director of RFBerlin, Professor of Economics at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and a research associate at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) in Nuremberg, talks about her research on how machines and workers interact in the...
Director Christian Dustmann on our new research institute in Berlin
Listen on Christian Dustmann, Director of ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin Institute for the Economy and the Future of Work (RFBerlin), Professor of Economics at University College London, Director at Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), opens our podcast series...
Introduction to RFBerlin Talks
We are pleased to announce the release of RFBerlin Talks, a podcast from RFBerlin that strives to make cutting-edge research on the economy and the labour market more accessible. We invite leading economists to discuss the key challenges the labour...
