Frederik Almar

I am a PhD Student at the Department of Economics and Business Economics at Aarhus University and part of the Platform for Inequality Research at Aarhus University (PIREAU).

During the fall of 2023, I visited the Yale Department of Economics as a Visiting Assistant in Research.

Research Interests

• Income Inequality

• Labor Economics

• Family Economics

More about my project

I investigate the economic causes of the increasing income inequality. I particularly focus on individual decisions related to educational program choices, whom to marry (marriage markets), and career choices related to occupational career paths and the division of time between labor supply and home production.

These decisions may impact the increasing income inequality through mechanisms of: 

• Increased selectivity (sorting) in educational program-, partner-, and occupation choice

• Persistence in the gender wage gap

• Geographical differences in the availability of education, partners, and jobs

I study these mechanisms with Danish administrative data, and I apply both microeconometric methods and structural economic models.