Stephan L. Thomsen

Research Fellow

Leibniz University of Hannover

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Research Interests

Stephan L. Thomsen is professor of economics at the Leibniz Universität Hannover. His research focuses on applied econometrics and (micro-)econometric evaluations, and he contributes to questions on labor and education economics, primarily in the area of the evaluation of political reforms, human capital, migration, and social security.

He studied economics (Dipl.-Volksw., 2001) at the Goethe Universität Frankfurt and business economics at the universities of Frankfurt and Hagen (Dipl.-Kfm., 2004). From 2001 to 2006, he worked at the Universität Frankfurt, where he obtained his doctorate in 2006. After that, he moved to ZEW Mannheim as a post-doc researcher from 2006 to 2007. In August 2007, Stephan Thomsen became junior professor of labor economics at the Universität Magdeburg. From 2011 to 2016, he was chairman and academic head of NIW Hannover (Niedersächsisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung).

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in August 2014.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8623
Did Tuition Fees in Germany Constrain Students' Budgets? New Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Stephan L. Thomsen, Friederike von Haaren
revised version published in: IZA Journal or European Labor Studies, 2016, 5:6
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4580
Intensifying the Use of Benefit Sanctions: An Effective Tool to Shorten Welfare Receipt and Speed Up Transitions to Employment?
Bernhard Boockmann, Stephan L. Thomsen, Thomas Walter
published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 2014, 3:21, https://doi.org/10.1186/2193-9004-3-21
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1512
The Employment Effects of Job Creation Schemes in Germany: A Microeconometric Evaluation
Marco Caliendo, Reinhard Hujer, Stephan L. Thomsen
published in: Millimet, D., Smith, J. and Vytlacil, E. (eds.), Advances in Econometrics, Volume 21: Estimating and Evaluating Treatment Effects in Econometrics, 2008, 383-430,
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1117
The Effects of Vocational Training Programmes on the Duration of Unemployment in Eastern Germany
Reinhard Hujer, Stephan L. Thomsen, Christopher Zeiss
published in: Allgemeines Statistisches Archiv / Journal of the German Statistical Society, 2006, 90 (2), 299-321
IZA Discussion Paper No. 750
New Evidence on the Effects of Job Creation Schemes in Germany - A Matching Approach with Threefold Heterogeneity
Reinhard Hujer, Marco Caliendo, Stephan L. Thomsen
published in: Research in Economics, 2004, 58(4), 257-302
IZA World of Labor Article
The impacts of shortening secondary school duration
Stephan L. Thomsen
IZA Standpunkt Nr. 97
Wohnungsmarkt und Wohnungspolitik in Deutschland: Situation und Optionen
Stephan L. Thomsen, Daniel Vogt, Lars Brausewetter
short version published in: Wirtschaftsdienst, 100 (6), 461-467. DOI: 10.1007/s10273-020-2680-9
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