Learning and Work Hybrid Seminars, Maastricht University, SBE, Autumn/Winter 2025

Our regular Tuesday hybrid seminar series (from 12:00 to 13:00, onsite and also via Microsoft Teams) features researchers from different disciplines, with focuses on both academic and policy issues.

L&W hybrid seminar organizers

Raymond Montizaan: r.montizaan@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Katarina Wessling: k.wessling@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Steffen Künn: s.kuenn@maastrichtuniversity.nl

  • Upcoming seminars 2025

    When: Tuesday 2nd of September 
    Time: 12.00 - 13.00
    Where: TS53 - A0.24

    Speaker: Jan Möhlmann / Benedikt Vogt  / Timo Verlaat - CPB

    Title: From Immediate Disruptions to Lasting Impacts: COVID-19 Infections and Their Effects on Labor Supply and Disability Insurance

    Abstract: We examine the causal effects of a COVID-19 infection on hours worked and disability insurance (DI) take-up. We link Dutch administrative data on over five million individuals’ PCR tests to labor market records spanning 2020–2023. Using an event-study differences-in-differences design, we exploit variation in infection timing during the early waves of the pandemic. We find that a COVID-19 infection leads to an immediate 40% decline in hours worked within two weeks of infection and a nearly 6% increase in DI take-up two years later. Our results imply an incidence of 0.24% for severe long COVID among the working-age population infected early in the pandemic.

     

    Upcoming scheduled seminars:

    16.09.2025 Steffen Hillmert/ Silvia Kopeczny - University of Tuebingen
    30.09.2025 Jan Stuhler - Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
    14.10.2025 Juan Pablo Rud - Royal Hollaway
    20.10.2025 Mark Boyes / Elizabeth Hill - Curtin University (Extraordinary seminar )
    21.10.2025 Wieteke Conen - UvA
    11.11.2025 Jan-Paul Heisig - WZB / FU Berlin
    25.11.2025 Paula Protsch - BIBB/ Univ. Cologne
    09.12.2025 Mantej Pardesi - ROA/ Maastricht University
     
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