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Thimo De Schouwer

PhD Student in Economics
KU Leuven
thimo.deschouwer (at) kuleuven.be


About Me

I am a PhD student at the Economics Department at KU Leuven funded by the Research Foundation - Flanders. I also spent some time visiting the Institute for Applied Microeconomics at the University of Bonn.

My research is in labor and family economics. I’m interested in how individuals and firms value all kinds of job attributes, how these valuations are reflected in equilibrium labor market outcomes, and how different job attributes are interrelated. I study these questions empirically using structural models of search and matching and causal inference methods.

Publications

  1. Work Meaning and the Flexibility Puzzle
    with Iris Kesternich
    WP Version BibTex Accepted at the Journal of Labor Economics

Working Papers

  1. Work Meaning and Fair Wages
    with Elisabeth Gsottbauer, Iris Kesternich, and Heiner Schumacher
    PDF Presentation BibTex Submitted

  2. How to Make Work Meaningful?
    with Thibault Deneus and Marco Forti
    PDF BibTex Submitted

Work in Progress

  1. Workplace Flexibility in Equilibrium
    Draft available on request

  2. No Place Like Home? Home size, Unemployment, and Divorce
    with Edoardo Ciscato and Mariana Zerpa