Welcome!

I am Assistant Professor of Economics at ESMT Berlin. My research focuses on the labor market.

I am also affiliated to RFBerlin, the IAB, the Berlin School of Economics, and a Research Fellow at IZA. I pursued my PhD at the University of Mannheim, Germany.

You can find my CV here and my Google Scholar profile here.

Working Papers

Is the Gig Economy a Stepping Stone for Refugees? Evidence from Administrative Data (with Felix Degenhardt), August 2025 [RFBerlin DP 17/25]

Workplace Connections and Labor Migration (with Michelle Hansch and Alexandra Spitz-Oener), July 2025

Harnessing Deductions to Increase Tax Compliance and Formalization (with Albrecht Bohne), May 2025, accepted, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

The Long-Run Effects of Immigration: Evidence Across a Barrier to Refugee Settlement (with Antonio Ciccone), November 2024, revise & resubmit, Review of Economic Studies [previous version: CEPR DP 17152, IZA DP 15185]

[rbb, wdr5, global focus, inclusive productivity, swr2, latest thinking]

Market Size and Spatial Growth—Evidence from Germany’s Post-war Population Expulsions: A Comment (with Antonio Ciccone), July 2024

Job Mobility Networks and Data-driven Labor Markets, April 2023, revise & resubmit, Journal of Labor Economics

German Prize for Economics (2nd Prize) from the Joachim Herz FoundationYoung Labour Economist Prize 2016 of the European Association of Labour Economists UniCredit Econ Job Market Best Paper Award 2016Best Poster Prize at the EALE/SOLE World Conference 2015 in Montréal [poster]

Publications

Information Frictions and Learning Dynamics: Evidence from Tax Bunching in Ecuador (with Albrecht Bohne) [Official Link], Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Vol. 127, Issue 1, p. 46-78 (2025)

Granular Search, Market Structure, and Wages (with Gregor Jarosch and Isaac Sorkin) [Official Link][IZA #12574] [NBER #26239], Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 91, Issue 6, p. 3569–3607 (2024)

Internal Labor Markets: A Worker Flow Approach (with Ingrid Huitfeldt, Andreas Kostøl, and Andrea Weber), Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 233, Issue 2, p. 661-688 (2023)

Personality Traits Across the Life Cycle: Disentangling Age, Period, and Cohort Effects (with Bernd Fitzenberger, Gary Mena, and Uwe Sunde), The Economic Journal, Vol. 132, Issue 646, p. 2141-2172 (2022)

Contact Info

Office Address:

ESMT Berlin

Schlossplatz 1

10178 Berlin

Phone: +49 (0)30 21231 1555

Email: jan [dot] nimczik [at] esmt [dot] org

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