Bastian Schulz

Recent workshop:

We hosted the 1st Aarhus Workshop on Labor Markets (AWLM 2025) from Wednesday, 22.10 to Friday, 24.10 in Aarhus, Denmark. See the program here.
We plan to hold the second edition of the workshop in 2027.

News:

• January 2026: Job Displacement, Remarriage, and Marital Sorting is now under revision for American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics.

• November 2025: New grant from the Danish e-infrastructure Consortium (DeiC), including computation time at the European supercomputer LUMI that will help advance my research agenda on interactions between labor and marriage markets.

• October 2025: New grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark (IRFD), supporting my project "Disentangling the Interplay of Marriage, Divorce, Fertility, and Work: Evidence from Natural Experiments", which is joint work with Frederik Almar, Edoardo Ciscato, Hanno Foerster, Andrew Shephard, and Guanyi Wang.

• October 2025: Educational Ambition, Marital Sorting, and Inequality has been accepted for publication by the Journal of Labor Economics.

• April 2025: Media coverage of my research on marriage market matching in the Danish national newspaper Weekendavisen: Golddiggermyten (The Golddigger Myth).

• January 2025: New working paper! Families’ Career Investments and Firms’ Promotion Decisions is available. It also came out as NBER WP No. 33438, IZA DP No. 17367, and CESifo WP No. 11659.