Alexander Patt

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Germany. My primary research fields are labour economics, regional economics, and microeconomic theory. In my research, I focus on structural transformation of the labour markets and its implications for worker mobility, productivity and sorting.

I currently work on:

• Home ownership and structural changes in the labour market (with Bernd Fitzenberger)

• Labour market tightness and worker allocation across and within firms (with Sabrina Genz and Alexandra Spitz-Oener)

• Play stupid games, win stupid prizes (with Katharina Hartinger)

• How to fix occupational information in the IAB Employment Biographies data following 2011 structural break

My publications up to now:

• International emigrant selection on occupational skills (with Jens Ruhose, Simon Wiederhold, and Miguel Flores), JEEA 2021 [DOI]

• Complex problem-solving skills and innovativeness - evidence from occupational testing and regional data (with Peer Ederer and Samuel Greiff), EJE 2016

• What do employers pay for employees’ complex problem solving skills? (with Peer Ederer, Ljubica Nedelkoska, and Silvia Castellazzi), IJLE 2015

My full CV is available here.