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Maria Balgova

@BalgovaMaria

Labour economist studying geography of jobs, matching, and pay at @BankofEngland. @OxfordEconDept PhD, @iza_bonn fellow, made in 🇸🇰
London, UK sites.google.com/view/mariabalg… Joined November 2018
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Maria Balgova @BalgovaMaria
Why don't firms publish pay in their job adverts?

We present the first experimental evidence on how (not) posting wages changes the applicant pool, and whether that gives firms a reason to hide wage info.

Great short thread by my co-author Lukas + link to the full paper👇
Lukas Hensel 🇺🇦 @LukasHenselEcon Oct 8, 2025
🚨🚨New WP Alert (tinyurl.com/4sesthst)🚨🚨
@marcjosefwitte, @BalgovaMaria, @TsegayTselassie, and I have a new working paper using a field experiment to study the causal impact of pay information in job adverts on application numbers and applicant skills. A🧵
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Maria Balgova @BalgovaMaria
You won't regret reading this paper (or hiring Jakob!)
Jakob Wegmann @WegmannJakob Nov 25, 2024
🎉Thrilled to share my #JMP🎉

It provides a missing piece to understand how people react to income taxation.

Tldr: By changing tax pre-payments governments can - with almost no costs - increase perceived work incentives of secondary earners.

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To collect income taxes, almost all countries require employers to withhold monthly tax prepayments which are then fully credited against the final income tax liabilities of their employees. Despite being a fundamental component of income taxation systems worldwide, the impact of these withholding taxes on labor supply is poorly understood. We investigate their importance in the context of married couples in Germany where the withholding tax liability can be redistributed between spouses. We exploit a reform that reduced the withholding tax for some married women more than for others, while inducing no differences in income taxes. Using administrative data for the full population of German taxpayers, we estimate an elasticity of labor income with respect to the withholding tax eight years after the reform of 0.14. Additional evidence from a self-conducted survey suggests imperfect understanding of the tax system and limited pooling of resources within the household as the main mechanis
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Maria Balgova @BalgovaMaria
I love this paper - examines a very intuitive concept that has some really interesting parallels with the trade-off between occupation and geographic mobility.
Saman Darougheh @DaroughehSaman Aug 5, 2024
I'm happy to announce that my work on occupational "broadness", mismatch unemployment and the business cycle is forthcoming at the JPE: Macro. This has been a long, long time coming with the help and support of so many people around me. The findings: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73…
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