Learning and Work Hybrid Seminars, Maastricht University, SBE, Spring 2025

Our regular Tuesday hybrid seminar series (from 12:00 to 13:00, onsite and also via zoom) 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: February 11
    Time: 12h00 – 13h00
    Where: TS53 - A1.23 

    Presenter: Jonas Detemple (BIBB/University of Bamberg)
    Title: Career Success of Mothers and Fathers - The Role of Local Public Childcare (joint w/ Katarina Weßling & Dominik Becker)

    Abstract: The birth of a child contributes to increasing gender inequalities in parents’ careers, especially in Germany. It is well-known that the availability of public childcare facilitates mothers’ re-entry into the labor market. However, an unanswered question concerns the influence that the local availability of public childcare may take on longer-term career trajectories of both mothers and fathers and to what extent this depends on couples’ division of labor. We use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) enriched with data on the local availability of public childcare provided by the Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR) and measures parents’ career advancements by monthly and hourly wage gains and the achievement of leadership positions. Cox regression models show that the local availability of public childcare is associated with a reduced average time to achieve career advancements for mothers, whereas fathers’ careers remain largely unaffected. However, in terms of couple-specific division of labor, fathers also tend to benefit more from the local availability of public childcare if they live in a dual-earner household than if they are the primary earner.

     

    Upcoming scheduled seminars:
    25-2-2025 Juan Pablo Rud (Royal Holloway, University of London)
    18-3-2025 tba
    1-4-2025   Benjamin Krebs (University of Basel)
    15-4-2025 Dieter Verhaest (KU Leuven)
    6-5-2025   tba
    20-5-2025 tba
    10-6-2025 Hannah Illing (University of Bonn)
    24-6-2025 tba
    1-7-2025   Ulf Zölitz (University of Zurich)

     

    Previous seminars

    January 14, 2025 Lorenzo Navarini (University of Vienna) - “Changes in Returns to Multidimensional Skills across Cohorts”

    January 28, 2025 Elke Claes (MILE/ ROA) - Private vs. Public Schooling: The Role of School Composition
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