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...
Conference for the Handbook of Labor Economics, Volumes 5 and 6
On October 19-21, 2023, the ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin and Humboldt-Universität Berlin hosted a conference on the new Handbook of Labor Economics (Volumes 5 and 6), edited by Christian Dustmann and Thomas Lemieux. Throughout the 3-day programme, the draft chapters of...
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...
