Professor of Economics
Aix Marseille School of Economics
My research is in the wider field of empirical labour economics /
econometrics, and has been published in e.g. The Review of Economic
Studies, The Review of Economics and Statistics,
International Economic Review and Journal of
Econometrics.
Interests
applied econometrics
labour economics
inequality
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Education
PhD in Economics, 1997
London School of Economics
MSc in Economics, 1993
London School of Economics
BSc in Economics, 1992
London School of Economics
Current Position
2012-
Professeur des Universités, Aix-Marseille Université, France.
Preceding Positions
2010-2012
Professeur Associé, Aix-Marseille Université.
2002-2012
Reader in Economics, University of Southampton.
1997-2002
Lecturer in Economics, University of Bristol.
1997-2007
Research Associate, Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion,
LSE.
Education
1993-96
London School of Economics: Ph.D in economics. Degree awarded June
1997.
“Interdependent Hazards, Local Interactions, and the Return Decision
of Recent Migrants” (with G.E. Bijwaard), forthcoming Spatial
Economic Analysis.
“Dealing with Censored Earnings in Register Data”. Journal of
Economics and Statistics / Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und
Statistik (with M. Beckmannshagen, J. König, I. Retter, C.
Schröder, Y. Tchokni).
“Routes to the Top”. Review of Income and Wealth, 71,2,
(with J. König and C. Schröder). ,
Replication Kit
“The beyondpareto command for optimal extreme value index
estimation.” The Stata Journal, 25(1), 169-188.
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Replication Kit,
Vignette
2024
“Spatial Earnings Inequality”. Journal of Economic
Inequality, 22, 531–550 (with M. Trede).
2021
“On Zipf’s law and the bias of Zipf regressions.” Empirical
Economics, 61, 529-548.
“Top incomes, heavy tails, and rank-size regression.”
Econometrics, 6, 10.
2016
“Weak convergence to the Student and Laplace distributions.”
Journal of Applied Probability, 53, 121-129 (with M. Trede).
2014
“The Impact of Labour Market Dynamics on the Return-Migration of
Immigrants.” The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 96,
No. 3, 483-494 (with G.E. Bijwaard and J. Wahba).
“The Composition of Wage Differentials between Migrants and
Natives.” European Economic Review, 65C, 23-44 (with P. Nanos).
2012
“On the Problem of Inference for Inequality Measures for
Heavy-Tailed Distributions.” The Econometrics Journal, vol. 15,
1, 125-153.
“The econometrics of inequality measurement.” The Econometrics
Journal, 15, 1, C54-57.
2011
“Upward Structural Mobility, Exchange Mobility, and Subgroup
Consistent Mobility Measurement.” Review of Income and Wealth,
vol. 57, 1, 1-22 (joint with D. Van de gaer).
2010
“Are parents altruistic ? Evidence from Mexico.” Journal of
Population Economics, 23, 3, 1025-1046 (joint with J. Wahba)
2009
“Edgeworth Expansions and Normalizing Transforms for Inequality
Measures.” Journal of Econometrics, vol. 150, 1, 16-29 (with
K.J. van Garderen).
2008
“Identifying Multiple Outliers in Heavy-Tailed Distributions with an
Application to Market Crashes.” Journal of Empirical Finance,
15, 700-713 (with M. Trede).
2003
“Local versus Global Assessment of Mobility.” International
Economic Review, vol. 44, no. 4, 1313 - 1336 (with M. Trede).
“Why Are Child Poverty Rates Higher in Britain than in Germany?”
Journal of Human Resources, vol. 38, 441- 465 (with S.P.
Jenkins).
“Welfare measurement and measurement error.” Review of Economic
Studies, vol. 69, 357 - 378 (with A. Chesher).
2002
“Tails of Lorenz curves.” Journal of Econometrics, 109, 1,
151-166 (with M. Trede).
“Statistical inference for inequality and poverty measures with
dependent data.” International Economic Review, 43, 2, 185-200
(with M. Trede).
2001
Child poverty in Britain and Germany, Anglo-German
Foundation, London (with S.P. Jenkins, G. Wagner).
“Child poverty in Germany: trends and persistence”. In: Bradbury,
B., Jenkins, S.P., Micklewright, J. (eds.) The Dynamics of Child
Poverty in Industrialised Countries, Cambridge University
Press.
1998
“Statistical inference with mobility indices.” Economics
Letters, 59, 157-162.
1997
“On the performance of social benefit systems.” Economic
Journal, 107, 489- 502.
Research Grants
2024-28
Member of project “The MAny DIMensions of INequalities” (MADIMIN) ,
ANR
“LOCal LABour markets: The causes and consequences of spatial
differences in labour market outcomes across cities in France and
Germany” (LOCLAB), ANR-DFG (ANR-15-FRAL-0007-01).
2012-14
“Temporary Migration and Economic Development: the Triple-Win Policy
Vision applied to North Africa”, ESRC/DFID joint scheme for research on
international development (poverty alleviation) RES-167-25-0678. With J.
Wahba (Southampton, UK).
2009-12
The NORFACE Research Programme on “Migration in Europe – Social,
Economic, Cultural and Policy Dynamics” , project “Understanding
Migrants’ Choices”.
2001-02
ESRC Grant R000223640, project title: “Improving finite sample
inference for inequality and poverty measures” (with Kees Jan van
Garderen).
1999-00
Anglo German Foundation grant 1278, project title: “Child poverty in
Germany and the UK”, (with S. Jenkins, and G. Wagner).
1999
ESRC grant R000222650, project title: “Income dynamics in the UK and
Germany”.
