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- Ph.D. (Economics), University College London, 2004
- M.S. (Economics), University of Hanover, 1998
Prof. Uta Schӧnberg joined the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Hong Kong as a professor in 2023. Prior to joining HKU, she held positions at the economics departments of University College London and the University of Rochester. Her research is in applied microeconomics, with a special interest in wage inequality and wage dynamics; family economics; the economics of education; and the economics of migration. Her work has appeared in leading journals including the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the American Economic Review, and the Journal of Political Economy. Uta served as a Joint Managing Editor at the Review of Economic Studies between 2016 and 2021 and is currently a Co-editor at the American Economic Review.
- Labor Economics
- Public Economics
- “Technological and Organizational Change and the Careers of Workers”, 2023, with Michele Battisti and Christian Dustmann. Journal of the European Economic Association, 21 (4), 1551–1594.
- “Reallocation Effects of the Minimum Wage: Evidence from Germany”, 2022, with Christian Dustmann, Attila Lindner, Matthias Umkehrer and Philipp vom Berge. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 137 (1), 267-328.
- “Spillover Effects of Mass Layoffs”, 2020, with Christina Gathmann and Ines Helm. Journal of the European Economic Association, 18, 427-468.
- “Who Benefits from Universal Child Care? Estimating Marginal Returns to Early Child Care Attendance”, 2018, with Thomas Cornelissen, Christian Dustmann and Anna Raute. Journal of Political Economy, 126, 2356-2409.
- “Peer Effects in the Workplace”, 2017, with Thomas Cornelissen and Christian Dustmann. American Economic Review, 107, 425-456.
- “Labor Supply Shocks, Native Wages, and the Adjustment of Local Employment”, 2017, with Christian Dustmann and Jan Stuhler. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 132, 435-483.