I am an Associate Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics and Business Economics, Aarhus University, and the ECONAU data manager. I am affiliated with RFBerlin, IZA, CESifo, the GLO, PIREAU, and CEFAU.
Research interests: labor and family economics, macroeconomics, search and matching, inequality
You can reach me by email: bastian.schulz@econ.au.dk.
My CV is available here: Download CV
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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 final program here.
News:
October 2025: Educational Ambition, Marital Sorting, and Inequality has been accepted for publication by the Journal of Labor Economics.
August 2025: A new and revised version of Job Displacement, Remarriage, and Marital Sorting is available.
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.
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.