Hannah Illing
Welcome!
I am an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at the Mercator School of Management, University of Duisburg-Essen. I am also a research associate at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB), an IZA@LISER research fellow, and a research affiliate at RFBerlin.
Prior to joining the University of Duisburg-Essen, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bonn. I completed my PhD as part of the IAB's graduate program.
My main field is labor economics. My research is motivated by understanding the sources of labor market disparities, often in combination with economic shocks.
Publications
Working Papers
Abstract: This paper studies the gender gap in entry wages. Using German administrative data from 1981 to 2016, we exploit sudden worker deaths to identify exogenous vacancies and compare female and male replacements hired into ex ante comparable vacancies. Female replacements earn 16 log points less at entry; the gap remains 10 log points after accounting for their wages in previous jobs. The gap is not explained by worker observables, outside options, amenities, hours, or coworker adjustments. It shrinks in tight labor markets and widens where firms have greater wage-setting power, pointing to entry wage setting as a central firm-side margin.
Work in Progress
Contact
Mercator School of Management
University of Duisburg-Essen
Lotharstraße 65, 47057 Duisburg, Germany