Thimo De Schouwer
About Me
I am an Economic Analyst in the Analysis and Statistics unit of the Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs, and Inclusion (DG EMPL) at the European Commission. Before, I was a PhD student in the Economics Department at KU Leuven, funded by a Fellowship from the Research Foundation Flanders. I also spent some time visiting the Institute for Applied Microeconomics (IAME) at the University of Bonn.
I work in labor economics, studying how individuals and firms perceive and value a wide range of job attributes. I study how their preferences are formed, how they are reflected in equilibrium outcomes, and how this is shaped by the structure of the labor market. To study these questions, I estimate structural models of search and matching, use causal inference methods, and collect survey evidence.