Research

Working Papers

Adrjan, Pawel, Mária Balgová, Simon Jäger, Jonas Jessen, and Jason Sockin. 2026. “Job Ads As Signals: Evidence from a Priced Amenity and Worker Beliefs.”
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Jäger, Simon, Benjamin Schoefer, and Gert Bijnens. n.d. “What Does Consulting Do?”. Quarterly Journal of Economics, Reject and Resubmit.
Manuscript
Jäger, Simon, Jörg Heining, and Nathan Lazarus. n.d. “How Substitutable Are Workers? Evidence from Worker Deaths”. American Economic Review, Conditionally Accepted.
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Brinkmann, Christina, Simon Jäger, Moritz Kuhn, Farzad Saidi, and Stefanie Wolter. n.d. “Short-Time Work Extensions”. Journal of Political Economy, Revise and Resubmit.
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Budde, Julian, Thomas Dohmen, Simon Jäger, and Simon Trenkle. n.d. “Worker Representatives”. Journal of the European Economic Association, Revise and Resubmit.
Manuscript
Pezold, Chantal, Simon Jäger, and Patrick Nüß. n.d. “Labor Market Tightness and Union Activity.”
Manuscript

2025

Harju, Jarkko, Simon Jäger, and Benjamin Schoefer. 2025. “Voice at Work”. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 17 (3): 271-309.
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Jäger, Simon, Suresh Naidu, and Benjamin Schoefer. 2025. “Collective Bargaining, Unions, and the Wage Structure: An International Perspective”. In Handbook of Labor Economics, 6:229-372.
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2024

Bartels, Charlotte, Simon Jäger, and Natalie Obergruber. 2024. “Long-Term Effects of Equal Sharing: Evidence from Inheritance Rules for Land”. Economic Journal 134 (664). Publisher’s version: Long-Term Effects of Equal Sharing: Evidence from Inheritance Rules for Land.
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Jäger, Simon, Christopher Roth, Nina Roussille, and Benjamin Schoefer. 2024. “Worker Beliefs About Outside Options”. Quarterly Journal of Economics 139 (3).
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2023

Jäger, Simon, Benjamin Schoefer, and Josef Zweimüller. 2023. “Marginal Jobs and Job Surplus: A Test of the Efficiency of Separations”. Review of Economic Studies 90 (3): 1265-1303.
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Drenik, Andres, Simon Jäger, Pascuel Plotkin, and Benjamin Schoefer. 2023. “Paying Outsourced Labor: Direct Evidence from Linked Temp Agency-Worker-Client Data”. Review of Economics and Statistics 105 (1): 206-16.
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2022

Jäger, Simon, Shakked Noy, and Benjamin Schoefer. 2022. “The German Model of Industrial Relations: Balancing Flexibility and Collective Action”. Journal of Economic Perspectives 36 (4): 53-80.
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Jäger, Simon, Shakked Noy, and Benjamin Schoefer. 2022. “What Does Codetermination Do?”. ILR Review 75 (4): 857-90.
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2021

Jäger, Simon, Benjamin Schoefer, and Jörg Heining. 2021. “Labor in the Boardroom”. Quarterly Journal of Economics 136 (2): 669-725. Publisher’s Version (freely available as editors’ choice): Labor in the Boardroom.
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2020

Jäger, Simon, Benjamin Schoefer, Samuel Young, and Josef Zweimüller. 2020. “Wages and the Value of Nonemployment”. Quarterly Journal of Economics 135 (4): 1905-63. Publisher’s version: Wages and the Value of Nonemployment.
Manuscript, Slides

2018

Ganong, Peter, and Simon Jäger. 2018. “A Permutation Test for the Regression Kink Design”. Journal of the American Statistical Association 113 (522): 494-504.
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Altmann, Steffen, Armin Falk, Simon Jäger, and Florian Zimmermann. 2018. “Learning about Job Search: A Field Experiment With Job Seekers in Germany”. Journal of Public Economics 164: 33-49. Publisher’s version: Learning about Job Search: A Field Experiment with Job Seekers in Germany.
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2015

Abeler, Johannes, and Simon Jäger. 2015. “Complex Tax Incentives”. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 7 (3): 1-28. Publisher’s version: Complex Tax Incentives.
Manuscript, Web Appendix