Maximilian Longmuir

Ph.D. in Economics

I am an applied microeconomist with research expertise in Household Finance, Labor Economics, Economic Inequality, and Intergenerational Mobility. Since September 2025, I have been an Associated Researcher at the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality at the City University of New York (CUNY Graduate Center).

Starting in October 2025, I will be based in Australia, where I continue to develop my research agenda and pursue opportunities for collaboration and funding.

Mail: maxlongmuir \at\ email.de

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Short Bio:

Research Fields of Interest: Applied Microeconomics, especially

Household Finance,
Labor Economics,
Economic Inequality,
Intergenerational Mobility.

Previous Positions:

2023 to 2025 Research Associate at Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality (CUNY Graduate Center, New York).
2021 to 2023, Postdoc at the Humboldt Universität, Project: "The intergenerational reproduction of wealth inequality and its socio-demographic conditions in Germany".
2022 to 2023, Adjunct Lecturer at the Institute of Labour Economics, Leibniz Universität Hannover.

Education:

Ph.D. program on “Public Economics and Inequality" at Freie Universität Berlin.
Graduation in November 2021, Thesis: "Inequality, Risk, and Wealth".

Invited Seminar Talks and Presentations in 2024 and 2025:

August 3: International Conference on Empirical Economics (ICEE PSU Altoona), hosted by Pennsylvania State University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, topic: "Return heterogeneity vs. Participation: The Big Levers of Financial Wealth Inequality?"

July 9 to 11: Eleventh ECINEQ Conference the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality World Bank, Washington DC, topic: "Return heterogeneity vs. Participation: The Big Levers of Financial Wealth Inequality?"

Seminar: June 24, 2025, at the Stone Center Seminar CUNY, NYC, USA. Topic: "Stability in Intergenerational Wealth Transmission Levels in Germany."

June 4: 2025 RCEA International Conference on Economics, Econometrics, and Finance, New Jersey City University, NJ, USA., topic: "Return heterogeneity vs. Participation: The Big Levers of Financial Wealth Inequality?"

April 10 to 13: Population Association of America 2025 Annual Meeting, topic: Wealth Inequality among Families in a Changing Demographic Landscape: Evidence from Germany, 1988–2017

Friday, February 21, 2025 51th Annual Conference - Eastern Economic Association in New York, topic: "Return heterogeneity vs. Participation: The Big Levers of Financial Wealth Inequality?"

January 3–5, 2025: AEA in San Francisco, USA., Topic: "The Scarring Effects of Firm Shutdowns on Workers’ Wages: A Distributional Perspective".

Seminar: August 8, 2024, at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research at The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia. Topic: "The Scarring Effects of Firm Shutdowns on Workers’ Wages: A Distributional Perspective".

Seminar: August 5, 2024, at the Macro Seminar, Economics Department at The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia. Topic: "Returns vs. Participation: The Big Levers of Financial Wealth Inequality."

Seminar: August 1, 2024, at the Productivity Commission, Canberra, Australia. Topic: "Stability in Intergenerational Wealth Transmission Levels in Germany".

Seminar: July 31, 2024, at the Research School of Economics at Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. Topic: "The Scarring Effects of Firm Shutdowns on Workers’ Wages: A Distributional Perspective".

Seminar: July 30, 2024, at the Crawford School of Public Policy at Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. Topic: "De-routinization of Jobs and the Distribution of Earnings: A Cross-Country Comparison".

Seminar: July 25, 2024, at the Economics Department at University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia. Topic: "Stability in Intergenerational Wealth Transmission Levels in Germany".

Conference: July 10th - 12, 2024, Australian Conference of Economists, University of Adelaide, Australia. Topic: "The Scarring Effects of Firm Shutdowns on Workers’ Wages: A Distributional Perspective"

Workshop: Utah Public Finance Invitational Conference 2024, June 11 — June 13, 2024, University of Utah, Salt Lake City. Topic: Returns vs. Participation: The Big Levers of Financial Wealth Inequality.

Workshop: Inequality by the Numbers 2024, Monday, June 3 — Friday, June 7, 2024, at the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, The Graduate Center, New York City, USA. https://www.gc.cuny.edu/events/inequality-numbers-2024

Conference: February 28th to March 2, at YSI @ the 50th Eastern Economics Association Conference, Boston, USA. Topic: "The GC Wealth Project".

Seminar: January 30, 2024, at the Economics Department at Johannes-Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Germany. Topic: "The Scarring Effects of Firm Shutdowns".

Seminar: January 26, 2024, at the OeNB in Vienna, Austria. Topic: "Augmented Wealth in Australia".

Seminar: January 12, 2024, at the e61 Institute, Sydney, Australia. Topic: "The Scarring Effects of Firm Shutdowns".