Dr. Benjamin Lochner

Dr. Benjamin Lochner

Room Number	3.158
E-Mail Address	Benjamin.Lochner@fau.de
Phone Number	0911/5302 95319
Office Hours	By Appointment
Teaching	Macroeconomics, International Finance

About him:

Benjamin Lochner is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. He is also a senior researcher at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB).

Benjamin Lochner’s research focuses on the intersection of macro and labor. He studies individual heterogeneity, allocation mechanisms with search frictions as well as macroeconomic dynamics.

Link to his personal website.

 

Research Visits:

• Owen Graduate School, Vanderbilt University, 08/2024
• Aarhus Business School, Aarhus University, 01/2024
• Owen Graduate School, Vanderbilt University, 10/2023
• Dale Mortensen Centre, Aarhus University,  11/2019
• Dale Mortensen Centre, Aarhus University,  09/2018
• University of Hong Kong,  05/2018
• Dale Mortensen Centre, Aarhus University, 04/2018
• Dale Mortensen Centre, Aarhus University, 12/2017

 

Recent Working Papers:

• Matching through Search Channels (R&R The Review of Economic Studies) (with Carlos Carrillo-Tudela and Leo Kaas)
  (Link to WP)
  
• Horizontal Wage Inequality within Firms (R&R The Review of Corporate Finance Studies) (with Daniel Bias, Chen Lin, and Thomas Schmid)
  (Draft will be available soon)
• The (re-)organization of knowledge when firms go public (R&R Journal of Finance) (with Daniel Bias, Stefan Obernberger, Merih Sevilir)
  (Link to WP)
• Gender-Specific Search, Matching, and the Residual Earnings Gap (R&R Economic Journal) (with Christian Merkl)
  (Link to WP)

Journal Publications:

• Firm Productivity, Wages, and Sorting (with Bastian Schulz)
  published in 2024 in the Journal of Labor Economics, (Link) (Link to Online-Appendix)
  
• Employment Protection in Dual Labor Markets: Any Amplification of Macroeconomic Shocks?
  published in 2023 in the B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics (Link)
• AKM effects for German labour market data  for 1985-2021 (with Stefan Seth and Stefanie Wolter)
  published in 2023 in the Journal of Economics and Statistics (Link)
• IABSE-ADIAB – IAB Job Vacancy Survey data linked to administrative data
  published in 2023 in the Journal of Economics and Statistics (Link)
• Do Minimum Wages Improve Self-Rated Health? Evidence from a Natural Experiment (with Lucas Hafner)
  published in 2022 in Empirical Economics, online first (Link)
• Does Online Search Improve the Match Quality of New Hires? (with Nicole Gürtzgen, Laura Pohlan, and Gerard van den Berg)
  published in 2021 in Labour Economics, Vol 70 (Link to WP version)
• Recruiting Intensity and Hiring Practices: Cross-Sectional and Time-Series Evidence (with Christian Merkl, Heiko Stüber, and Nicole Gürtzgen)
  published in 2021 in Labour Economics, Vol 68 (Link)
• History Dependence in Wages and Cyclical Selection: Evidence from Germany (with Anja Bauer)
  published in 2020 in Labour Economics, Vol 67. (Link)
• Decomposing the Large Firm Wage Premium in Germany (with Stefan Seth and Stefanie Wolter)
  published in 2020 in Economics Letters, Vol. 194 (Link)
• The IAB Job Vacancy Survey – Design and Research Potential (with Mario Bossler, Nicole Gürtzgen, Alexander Kubis, and Benjamin Küfner)
  published in 2020 in the Journal of Labour Market Research Vol. 54 (Link)
• The German minimum wage: effects on productivity, profitability, and investments (with Mario Bossler, Nicole Gürtzgen, Ute Betzl, and Lisa Feist)
  published in 2020 in Journal of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 240, 2/3 (Link)

Data Reports:

• AKM effects for German labour market data (with Stefan Seth and Stefanie Wolter)
  FDZ-Methodenreport, 1/2023 (Link)
• IAB-Stellenerhebung verknüpft mit administrativen Daten des IAB (IABSE-ADIAB): – Version 7520 v1, Forschungsdatenzentrum der Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA) im Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) (with Tobias Graf, Stephan Grießemer, Markus Köhler, Martina Oertel, and Andreas Schneider)
• IAB-Stellenerhebung verknüpft mit administrativen Daten des IAB (IABSE-ADIAB) 1975-2020.
  FDZ-Datenreport, 01/2023(de)
• IAB Vacancy Survey linked to administrative data of the IAB (IABSE-ADIAB) 1975-2020.
  FDZ-Datenreport, 01/2023(en)
• “Identifying Couples in Administrative Data” for the years 2001-2014 (with Ann-Christin Bächmann, Corinna Frodermann, Michael Oberfichtner, and Simon Trenkle)
  FDZ-Datenreport, 03/2021 (Link)
• The Administrative Wage and Labor Market Flow Panel Extension for the IAB Job Vacancy Survey 2010–2014 (with Heiko Stüber and Stefan Seth) FDZ-Datenreport, 08/2020 (Link)
• AKM effects for German labour market data (with Lisa Bellmann, Stefan Seth, and Stefanie Wolter)
  FDZ-Methodenreport, 01/2020 (Link)
• A simple algorithm to link „last hires“ from the Job Vacancy Survey to administrative records.
  FDZ-Methodenreport, 06/2019) (Link)

Policy Reports:

• Auswirkungen des gesetzlichen Mindestlohns auf Betriebe und Unternehmen, Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (with Mario Bossler, Nicole Gürtzgen, Ute Betzl, Feist and Jan Wegmann)
  IAB-Forschungsbericht 04/2018 (Link)

Work in Progress:

• Household Labor Supply and Worker Flows: New Evidence from Joint Job Search from Germany (with Bastian Schulz)
  

• What explains the Large Firm Wage Premium? (with Daniel Bias)