Thimo De Schouwer

I am an Economic Analyst in the Analysis and Statistics unit of the Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs, and Inclusion at the European Commission. Here, I study the labor market impacts of AI and build models to inform employment policy. In addition to that, I am an Affiliated Researcher at the Economics Department of the University of Antwerp. My academic work uses search and matching models to study labor and marriage markets. I am interested in a broad range of questions, such as how workers and firms value different aspects of jobs, how market conditions shape equilibrium outcomes, or to what degree technological changes affect the formation of matches. I also study the adoption of generative AI in the workplace.

I hold a PhD in Economics from KU Leuven, funded by a Research Fellowship from the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), and spent some time visiting the Institute for Applied Microeconomics (IAME) at the University of Bonn. Further information can be found on my CV.

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