Bastian Schulz
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I am an Associate Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics and Business Economics, Aarhus University. I am also affiliated with IZA, CESifo, and PIREAU.
Research interests: labor economics, family economics, search-matching models, inequality
You can reach me by email: bastian.schulz@econ.au.dk.
My CV is available here: Download CV
I post recent news, paper updates, and upcoming presentations at the bottom of this page. For information on my research, teaching, and workshops, please use the sidebar.
Upcoming and recent presentations of my work:
European SaM Conference (Vilnius, May 8-10): Families’ Career Investments and Firms’ Promotion Decisions, Joint Labor Search and the Taxation of Couples
RFBerlin-CEPR Annual Symposium in Labour Economics 2025 (Berlin, June 12-13): Families’ Career Investments and Firms’ Promotion Decisions
Society for Economic Dynamics (Copenhagen, June 26-28): Families’ Career Investments and Firms’ Promotion Decisions
News:
March 2025: A new and revised version of Educational Ambition, Marital Sorting, and Inequality is available. It also came out as IZA DP No. 17814.
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.
December 2024: I am very grateful for two new grants from the Danish e-infrastructure Consortium (DeiC) and the Aarhus University Research Foundation (AUFF). These resources, including computation time at the European supercomputer LUMI, will help to advance my research agenda on interactions between labor and marriage markets.
September 2024: A new version of Job Displacement, Remarriage, and Marital Sorting is available. It also came out as IZA DP No. 17335, CESifo WP No. 11387 and CEP DP No. 2045.
Research Agenda:
My research combines micro data with insights from economic theory to better understand how heterogenous agents, such as workers and firms or men and women, match with each other (sorting). This approach helps elucidate trends in inequality and population structure (see chart).
Specifically, I examine how sorting influences labor market dynamics and inequality, and how it interacts with economic policy, e.g., labor market policy, tax policy, and policies that aim to improve gender equality. I use Danish register data, German social security data, and household surveys.
Currently, my focus is on the interactions between labor and marriage markets:
The labor market influences marriage, marital stability, and sorting through endogenous decisions about marriage and divorce, which are linked to labor market outcomes and transitions.
Families' choices (marriage, sorting, labor supply) and firms' hiring, training, and promotion decisions interact in shaping gender inequality.
For more details, see my Research Statement.
