Bastian Schulz

Upcoming Workshop:

The 1st Aarhus Workshop on Labor Markets (AWLM 2025) happens from Wednesday, 22.10 to Friday, 24.10 in Aarhus, Denmark. We bring together researchers who study labor markets from various perspectives, including both empirical research and structural work with empirical applications.  See the program here.

Upcoming and recent presentations of my work (also by co-authors):

• Econometric Society World Conference (Seoul, August 18-22): Families’ Career Investments and Firms’ Promotion Decisions

• Stanford SITE (Inequality Through the Lens of Individual and Labor Market Dynamics, September 4-5): Families’ Career Investments and Firms’ Promotion Decisions

• Families in Macroeconomics (Edesheim, September 10-11): Joint Labor Search and the Taxation of Couples

News:

• September 2025: A new and revised version of Educational Ambition, Marital Sorting, and Inequality is available.

• August 2025: A new and revised version of Job Displacement, Remarriage, and Marital Sorting is available. 

• April 2025: Media coverage of my reserach 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.

• 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.