Laura Pohlan Receives Research Award for her Doctoral Dissertation

During a virtual event at the beginning of October, the Roman Herzog Institut in Munich awarded the Roman Herzog Research Prize for Social Market Economy 2020 to three young scientists. Dr. Laura Pohlan, University of Mannheim, received the award for her doctoral dissertation with the title “Essays on Unemployment, Job Search Behavior and Policy Interventions”.

In her work, Laura Pohlan looks at the social consequences of unemployment and the effects of direct and indirect government measures on employment. She shows that the feelings of social exclusion grow more profound the longer people are unemployed and that such feelings may even persist following reemployment. For her dissertation, Pohlan was awarded the third prize worth 5,000 euros. Since August 2020, the economist is part of the research group “Market Design” at the Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research in Mannheim.

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