ERC Project "MORETHANMONEY"
Digital technologies, the Covid crisis, rising incomes and changing work attitudes all contribute to the recent increase in the importance of certain non-monetary aspects of work - most prominently flexibility and work meaning. What does this mean for gender differences on the labour market and for the future of work? MORETHANMONEY will integrate flexibility and work meaning into the theory and empirics of family labor supply and retirement choices. In three subprojects, I will develop models that combine behavioral, labour and family economics, collect unique data sets that combine administrative, survey and experimental parts and use structural and reduced-form estimation techniques.
- Project name: MORETHANMONEY - Nonwage attributes, gender, and the future of work
- Project leader: Professor Dr Iris Kesternich
- Project team: Dr Christian Pugnaghi Zimpelmann and Andrew Judy
- Project duration: 01.01.2024 – 31.12.2028
- Funder: ERC Consolidator Grant
Non-monetary aspects of work
Press coverage
- 'Gender pay gap vs pension gap across Europe: Why inequality gets worse in retirement?' by Servet Yanatma, published on 06.07.2026.
- How Important are Flexibility and Meaningful Work in the Labor Market? Press release from the University of Hamburg, published on 04.09.2023.
Publications
- "Work meaning and the flexibility puzzle”, accepted for publication at the Journal of Labor Economics. DOI
- “Work meaning and fair wages”, Labour Economics, Vol. 97, 102808, 2025. DOI
- “Zinvol werk en de flexibiliteitspuzzel” (with Thimo De Schouwer), Leuvense Economische Standpunten, 2024/219, 2024. (PDF)
- “Twenty-five hours in a day: On job flexibility and the intra-household allocation of time and money”, IZA DP No. 17505, 2024. (PDF)
- “Job amenities and the gender pension gap”, Discussion Paper Series CRC TR 224, DP No 600, 2024. (PDF)
Workshops
- Workshop on 'Topics in Labour, Family and Gender Economics' from 3 - 5 December 2024 at the University of Hamburg