Kathi Hartinger

Thank you for a wonderful conference!! 😊

September 30 – October 1, 2025, Mannheim, Germany We are pleased to announce the fourth International PIAAC Research Conference 2025, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. The conference will serve as a platform for sharing and discussing interdisciplinary research based Call for Papers for the International PIAAC Research Conference 2025

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Call for Papers for the Int. PIAAC Research Conference 2025 - September 30 – October 1, 2025 - Mannheim, Germany - Submit your paper now - Deadline for submission of presentations and symposia: April 30, 2025
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Can’t wait to submit here 😊😊😊

Delighted to be a discussant at the BiB graduate student workshop in Wiesbaden today

Shall we give this another try? 😅

Heute mal ein ganz anderer Workshop - Peer-to-Peer-Mentoring ☕️

today’s view from the office ❄️

Today, I got to give a guest lecture at Berkeley in the same class I took as a visiting student in 2016 - surreal and wonderful! :)

Thank you! Here’s the correct link: ideas.repec.org/p/jgu/wpaper... - always happy to discuss!

Better link to the paper: ideas.repec.org/p/jgu/wpaper...

Noch so neu hier und direkt 2 Sachen falsch gemacht! 😁 Dankeschön! 😊

That’s what happens when you copy & paste from twitter apparently… Apologies, this should work! ideas.repec.org/p/jgu/wpaper...

Very cool paper!

Despite the negative sides of individualism (e.g., pandemic response), it seems to be a strong motivator for innovation at the individual level and acts as an important non-cognitive skill in this context. 🌍
Thanks to my PhD advisors @simonwiederhold.bsky.social & Gerard Roland for their support! 😊

All results are in line with theory, which would predict a positive effect due to the emphasis on personal achievements, uniqueness, and stand-out ideas in individualism.

The results for innovation production inputs also translate into direct output measures of innovation: IDV is strongly positively related to patenting behavior - also in the sample of PCT patents filed by a single inventor.

Empirical strategy: With data from PIAAC, the PCT, and the GSOEP, I compare migrants from different cultural backgrounds within the same destination country (epidemiological approach), but I also abstract from the migration context by using personal and regional variation in IDV.

More individualist people are significantly more likely to work in innovative jobs - ranging from broadly classified creative occupations (+8 PP relative to a 43% share for a SD ⬆️ in IDV) to research 🔬, performing arts 🎨, and ambitious self-employment. 📈

Key finding: Selection into innovative occupations and knowledge diffusion on the job through learning explain 44% of the sizeable IDV productivity premium (~8% wage increase for the IDV difference between Argentina, Germany, and the US).

We know that individualist societies are more #innovative – but we do not know the underlying individual behaviors. I investigate comprehensively and internationally how #individualism affects selection into innovative jobs, knowledge diffusion, #creativity, and #patenting.

Hey #EconSky, I am excited to share my new paper on “Individualism, Creativity, and Innovation”: ideas.repec.org/p/jgu/wpaper/2…. I show that #individualism – the #culture of personal achievement and personal responsibility – affects #innovative #productivity at the individual level. #JMP 😊🧵

Let’s share my new paper before it gets too crowded on here ;)

Welcome to #EconSky, @lennardzyska.bsky.social!! Good to see the OG KU PhD students represented here 😊

Thank you, Simon! ☺️

Hi econ sky! :) Excited to build a vibrant and inclusive #econ community on this new platform. If you are interested in my research on #culture, #skills, and #innovation and don’t want to wait for me to post about it: khartinger.com