Bastian Schulz

Call for Papers:

The 1st Aarhus Workshop on Labor Markets (AWLM 2025) aims to bring together researchers who study labor markets from various perspectives. We welcome both empirical research and structural work with empirical applications. Wednesday, 22.10 to Friday, 24.10 in Aarhus, Denmark. Please send us your best papers by August 22!

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:

• 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).

• March 2025: A new and revised version of Educational Ambition, Marital Sorting, and Inequality is available. It also came out as NBER WP No. 33683 and 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.