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Research
The ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin Institute for the Economy and the Future of Work (RFBerlin) engages in research designed to raise the standard of public debate and create the best possible basis for policy making.
Discussion papers
No. 66/26 - March 2026
Getting In and Getting Through: Ex Ante Beliefs and Counterfactual Outcomes in Centralized College Admissions
Pamela Giustinelli, Edwin Leuven
No. 65/26 - March 2026
Is This Really Kneaded? Identifying and Eliminating Potentially Harmful Forms of Workplace Control
Guido Friebel, Matthias Heinz, Mitchell Hoffman, Tobias Kretschmer, Nikolay Zubanov
No. 64/26 - March 2026
No. 63/26 - March 2026
Why Artificial Intelligence is not a Salient Issue: Politicizing AI Reduces Mobilization Potential
Giacomo Battiston, Federico Boffa, Eugenio Levi, Alberto Parmigiani, Steven Stillman
Research Insights
Concise, research-based articles for scholars,
policymakers, and anyone curious about the world.
News
RFBerlin research and researchers are regularly featured in the press.
Tweets by @RF_Berlin
Today is International Women’s day!
Across the EU, women are more educated than ever, and often more educated than men. Yet they are still less likely to be employed.
The latest Eurostat data (2024) show that among both EU and non-EU immigrants, women are 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲𝗹𝘆
New Discussion Papers from RFBerlin!
At RFBerlin, we collect frontier research on education, labor markets, and social policy. Each week we highlight new discussion papers that contribute evidence to these questions.
This week’s papers in the thread below ⬇️
RFBerlin’s Research Insight in the media!
Who really wins when a company is taken over? Not the workers. Research by Jakob Beuschlein, Jósef Sigurdsson & Horng Chern Wong was picked up by Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR)!
📑Read about it here:
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Upcoming events
RFBerlin hosts a wide array of events aimed at fostering academic research and collaboration.
Handbook of Labor Economics – Chapter Previews
In anticipation of the upcoming Handbook of Labor Economics, we offer early access to select chapters through our Discussion Papers series. Following our 2023 conference on this new edition, first chapters are now available for preview, featuring insights from leading research in economics and labor.
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