Bastian Schulz

🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 🚨

-- 1st Aarhus Workshop on Labor Markets --

We welcome empirical and structural work with applications on labor market dynamics, policies, and outcomes.

📍Where? Aarhus University, Denmark
📆 When? 22/10 - 24/10
⏰ Deadline: 22/8

Submit: app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/78820...

Marital sorting on "ambition type," constructed by clustering typical wage dynamics of education programs, increased and contributed to the rise in household inequality, from Frederik Almar, Benjamin Friedrich, Ana Reynoso, Bastian Schulz, and Rune M. Vejlin https://www.nber.org/papers/w33683

Det er en indgroet forestilling i samfundet, at kvinder i højere grad end mænd gifter sig til status og velstand. Men det er en myte, viser nyt studie.

Læs om det nye studie af @bsecon.bsky.social i @weekendavisen.dk

www.weekendavisen.dk/2025-15/idee...

THREAD 🧵: A Concerning Trend in the Heterogenous-Agent (HA) Macro Literature

1/n A growing class of computational algorithms makes heavy use of linearization methods to solve HA models. Two key benefits are emphasized: (i) (extreme) speed & (ii) allows many state (aggregate) variables. ++

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Thanks a lot, we are excited to hear what you think!

That is, in the long-run, the marriage market adjusts such that more families that invest in the careers of women form, which in turn affects firm's expectations.

You can find the working paper at NBER, IZA, and my webpage.

Our model can be used to study the impact of policies. We find that both gender-equal parental leave and a managerial quota can improve gender equality. However, leave policies imply costly skill depreciation, whereas the quota can raise welfare, in part through
adjustments in marital sorting.

We develop and estimate a quantitative life cycle model that captures these family-firm interactions through household formation, families’ joint career and fertility choices, and firms’ managerial training and promotion decisions.

Thus, small initial differences between spouses will amplify over the lifecycle because an equilibrium arises in which both firms and families invest less in the careers of women.

🎯 What can be done?

On the other hand, firms selecting candidates for costly management training form expectations about which type of candidates will continue to invest in their careers without knowing the detailed family situation of each candidate. But they see that men usually invest more.

This is where the interaction between families’ career investments or firms’ promotion decisions kicks in. When families look at the current managerial training and promotion policies of firms, they see that men are more likely to be trained and promoted.

Ambitious men and women often marry each other. Once they have children, it is difficult for both parents to be on a highly demanding career track due to family responsibilities. Now, who should invest relatively more in the career? The husband or the wife?

📊 A key empirical insight from our paper is that your partner matters for your likelihood of receiving management training and becoming a manager. We argue that the mechanism through which this operates is the time allocated to working versus family responsibilities.

Families’ Career Investments and Firms’ Promotion Decisions Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

Why is there a gender gap in management promotions? Is it due to families’ or firms’ decisions? In a new paper with Frederik Almar, Ben Friedrich, Ana Reynoso and Rune Vejlin, we show that the interaction between families' and firms' career investments is key!
www.nber.org/papers/w33438
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Job announcement for Postdoctoral Researcher in Economic History

Job announcement for Postdoctoral Researcher in Economic History

📢We are hiring 📢

We look to fill a Postdoc position in Economic History!

5-year position funded by ERC project „Entrenched: Elite Capture and Social Mobility“

jobportal.uni-koeln.de/bewerben/1964

Deadline: Jan 17, 2025
Please spread widely!

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5 days left to apply!

Join our group in Berlin

🟩 quantitative macro with a focus on labor/gender/intergen mobility/growth
(if this is not you, check out other positions in @bseberlin.bsky.social)
🟦 3+3 year position
🟪 no teaching obligations and lots of support

Happy to answer any questions!

Job displacement, remarriage and marital sorting | New #POIDWorkingPaper by Hanno Foerster, Tim Obermeier and @bsecon.bsky.social
poid.lse.ac.uk/PUBLICATIONS...

All mentioned papers are available on my website. sites.google.com/site/schulzb...

Weniger Scheidungen dank Hartz-Reformen Liebe hat viel mit Geld zu tun. Das kann man in Deutschland gut beobachten.

A very nice article in @faznet.bsky.social (in German) discusses my current research about the interaction of couples' marriage/divorce decisions with the labor market and marriage market sorting. #econsky #familyeconomics Came out in print today.
www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt...

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Does 'knowing the right people' help to make it to the top? Absolutely! But here's the catch: it works best if you're from ‘the right’ (read: wealthy) background.

Our paper "Firm Productivity, Wages, and Sorting" has now been published at #JOLE. The first 50 clicks at the link below give you free access.
Thank you, Ben Lochner, for the excellent work and collaboration!
#Sorting #Wages #econsky #IAB #FAU #AU

Incredibly bad news for Economics in Germany. It was such a coup to attract a young superstar (from MIT!) to run one of our leading research institutes. I can’t believe we are losing him and all the potential he brought to IZA.

Good to see you on the other side. :)

Ein wahnsinnig guter Text. Ein Text, auf den ich lange gewartet habe, der endlich ausspricht, was für ein Zivilisationsbruch der 7. Oktober war und wie moralisch verrottet Teile der westlichen Linken tatsächlich sind:

www.wienerzeitung.at/a/beatrice-f...

I am 34 y.o. Belarusian living in exile in Poland.
FIRST time in my life I will see a peaceful transition of power. To opposition. After democratic elections. With 73% turnout.
My message to you - value and protect your democracy. You can't even imagine what a miracle you have.

Thanks for coming, was great talking to you!

Hi, who is here from German #Econtwitter? Please answer and retweet!

Hello! Trying this out. #econsky