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.