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Christian Schluter

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. Projects

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

Christian Schluter
Date of Birth: 01/06/1969                                            Education
Nationality: German Publications
Research Grants
Research Expertises

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.
1992-93 London School of Economics: MSc. in economics.
1989-92 London School of Economics: BSc. in economics.

Editorial Boards
Econometrics 2024-26

Selected Publications

2023 “Spatial Earnings Inequality”. Journal of Economic Inequality, forthcoming (with M. Trede)
2021 “On Zipf’s law and the bias of Zipf regressions.” Empirical Economics, 61, 529-548.
2019 “Size Distributions Reconsidered.” Econometric Reviews, 38, 6, 695-710 (with M. Trede).
2018 “Top incomes, heavy tails, and rank-size regression.” Econometrics, 6, 10, March 2018.
2016 “Weak convergence to the Student and Laplace distributions.” Journal of Applied Probability, 53, 121-129, March 2016 (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, July 2014 (with G.E. Bijwaard and J. Wahba).
“The Composition of Wage Differentials between Migrants and Natives.” European Economic Review, 65C, 23-44, January 2014 (with P. Nanos).
2012 “On the Problem of Inference for Inequality Measures for Heavy-Tailed Distributions.” The Econometrics Journal, vol. 15, 1, 125-153, February 2012.
“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, March 2011 (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, May 2009 (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, November 2003 (with M. Trede).
“Why Are Child Poverty Rates Higher in Britain than in Germany?” Journal of Human Resources, vol. 38, 441- 465, Spring 2003 (with S.P. Jenkins).
“Welfare measurement and measurement error.” Review of Economic Studies, vol. 69, 357 - 378, April 2002 (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, 2001 (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

2020-24 “Life-cycle INequality DYnamics” (LINDY), ANR-DFG (ANR-19-FRAL-0006-01).
2015-19 “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”.

Recent Expertises

ANR CE41 “Inégalités – discriminations – migrations”: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
Résilience Grand Est: 2020
FRAL (ANR-DFG): 2023
European Commission FR7 : 2013, H2020 : 2014, 2015, 2016
ERC: (2023, remote)
NORFACE 2020: Governance panel member