Uta SCHӦNBERG - HKU Business School

Prof. Uta SCHӦNBERG

经济学

The Hong Kong Jockey Club Professor in Economics

Chair of Economics

Co-Director of the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality in Asia

3917 7764

schoenbe@hku.hk

KK 937

https://www.utaschoenberg.com/

Academic & Professional Qualification

Ph.D. (Economics), University College London, 2004
M.S. (Economics), University of Hanover, 1998

Biography

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.

Research Interests

Labor Economics
Public Economics

Selected Publications

“Wind of Change? Cultural Determinants of Maternal Labor Supply”, 2025, with Barbara Boelmann and Anna Raute. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 17 (2), 41-74.
“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.

Recent Publications

1Apr

Prof. Uta SCHӦNBERG

Wind of Change? Cultural Determinants of Maternal Labor Supply

We investigate the role of cultural norms in shaping women's labor supply decisions after childbirth. Specifically, we are interested in the interplay between childhood socialization and adulthood environment. To that end, we leverage the setting of the German reunification when East Germany's gender-egalitarian culture induced by socialism and West Germany's more traditional culture were brought together. We find that East German gender norms are persistent, whereas West German ones are not. West German mothers adjust their behavior to that of their East German peers not only when immersed in East German environment but even after returning to the West.

1 Apr 2025

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

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