Dr. Nico Pestel – Curriculum Vitae Updated: October 30, 2014 Contact Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Schaumburg-Lippe-Str. 5–9, 53113 Bonn, Germany Phone: +49 228 3894–160, Email: [email protected] Personal Details Born 28 July 1983 in Goch Marital Status Married, one child (born 2013) Citizenship German Languages German and Dutch (native), English (fluent), French (basic) Professional Career 01/2013–present Research Associate, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn 10/2009–12/2012 Resident Research Affiliate, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn Affiliations 2014–present Research Fellow, Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim Research Visits 2013/2014 Short visits to: Free University of Berlin, ZEW Mannheim 2012 Visiting Scholar, Catholic University of Leuven Education 2009–2013 Ph.D. in Economics, University of Cologne, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Clemens Fuest 2006–2009 Diplom-Volkswirt (equiv. M.Sc. Economics), University of Cologne 2004–2006 Vordiplom (equiv. B.Sc. Economics), University of Cologne Publications & Research Refereed International Journals 2014 Tax Policy and Income Inequality in the U.S., 1979–2007, forthcoming in: Economic Inquiry (with O. Bargain, M. Dolls, H. Immervoll, D. Neumann, A. Peichl and S. Siegloch) Labor Demand Effects of Rising Electricity Prices: Evidence for Germany, forthcoming in: Energy Policy, DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2014.10.021 (with M. Cox, A. Peichl and S. Siegloch) 2013 The Politicians’ Wage Gap: Insights from German Members of Parliament, Public Choice 156(3– 4), 653–676 (with A. Peichl and S. Siegloch) Fiscal union in Europe? Redistributive and stabilizing effects of a European tax-benefit system and fiscal equalization mechanism, Economic Policy 28(75), 375–422 (with O. Bargain, M. Dolls, C. Fuest, D. Neumann, A. Peichl and S. Siegloch) Multidimensional Affluence: Theory and Applications to Germany and the US, Applied Economics 45(32), 4591–4601 (with A. Peichl) Multidimensional Well-Being at the Top: Evidence for Germany, Fiscal Studies 34(3), 355–371 (with A. Peichl) 2012 Does Size Matter? The Impact of Changes in Household Structure on Income Distribution in Germany, Review of Income and Wealth 58(1), 118–141 (with A. Peichl and H. Schneider) Refereed German Journals 2014 Der gesetzliche Mindestlohn in Deutschland: Einsichten und Handlungsempfehlungen aus der Evaluationsforschung, forthcoming in: Schmollers Jahrbuch–Journal of Applied Social Science Studies (with P. Arni, W. Eichhorst, A. Spermann and K.F. Zimmermann) 1 2013 Bundestagswahlkampf 2013: Klientelpolitik durch Steuerreform?, Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik 15(2), 182–194 (with A. Peichl, S. Siegloch and E. Sommer) Ist Deutschland wirklich so progressiv? Einkommensumverteilung im europ¨ aischen Vergleich, DIW Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 82(1), 111–127 (with A. Peichl and S. Siegloch) 2012 Effizient, einfach und gerecht: Ein integriertes System zur Reform von Einkommensteuer und Sozialabgaben, Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik 13(3), 196–213 (with M. L¨ offler, A. Peichl, H. Schneider and S. Siegloch) 2011 Einfach ist nicht immer gerecht: Eine Mikrosimulationsstudie der Kirchhof-Reform f¨ ur die Einkommensteuer, DIW Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 80(4), 147–160 (with M. L¨ offler, A. Peichl, H. Schneider and S. Siegloch) Mehr Ungleichheit durch kleinere Haushalte? Der Zusammenhang zwischen Ver¨ anderungen der Haushaltsstruktur und der Einkommensverteilung in Deutschland, Zeitschrift f¨ ur ArbeitsmarktForschung– Journal for Labour Market Research 43(4), 327–338 (with A. Peichl and H. Schneider) Reform der Hartz IV-Hinzuverdienstregelungen: Ein verfehlter Ansatz, Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik 12(1), 12–26 (with A. Peichl, H. Schneider and S. Siegloch) Working Papers Under review Beyond Inequality Accounting: Marital Sorting and Labor Supply of Couples, IZA Discussion Paper No. 8482 / SOEPpaper No. 698–2014 Shifting Taxes from Labor to Consumption: More Employment and more Inequality? (with E. Sommer), IZA Discussion Paper No. 7804 Close to submission Incumbency Advantage in a Mixed Electoral System: The Case of Germany (with A. Peichl and S. Siegloch) Work in progress Marriage Markets on the Campus: University Education and Assortative Mating in Germany Performance Effects of Air Pollution: Evidence from Professional Soccer (with M. Cox, A. Lichter and E. Sommer) Air Quality Effects of Green Energy Policies (with O. Deschenes and M. Kahn) Labor Supply Effects of Wealth Shocks: Evidence for Germany (with K. Doorley) The Impact of Participation Tax Rates on Labor Supply Decisions (with C. Bartels) Labor Demand and Energy Prices: Evidence from Firm Microdata (with A. Lichter) Labor Supply Elasticities in the U.S. and Germany (with O. Bargain, M. Dolls, D. Neumann, A. Peichl and S. Siegloch) Other Publications 2014 Earnings Inequality, IZA Policy Paper No. 89, forthcoming in: International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edition (with A. Peichl) Employment Effects of Green Energy Policies, IZA World of Labor, DOI: 10.15185/izawol.76 Documentation IZAΨMOD v3.0: The IZA Policy Simulation Model, IZA Discussion Paper No. 8553 (with M. L¨ offler, A. Peichl, S. Siegloch and E. Sommer) 2013 Economic Inequality in Germany and the Role of Household Context, Bonn Journal of Economics 2(2), 91–105 Green Jobs: Erlebt Deutschland sein gr¨ unes Besch¨ aftigungswunder?, IZA Standpunkte No. 58 Inequality in Germany: The Role of Household Context and the Concept of Economic Resources, Dissertation, University of Cologne 2012 Geringf¨ ugige Besch¨ aftigung: Situation und Gestaltungsoptionen, Studie im Auftrag der Bertelsmann Stiftung, IZA Research Report No. 47 (with W. Eichhorst, T. Hinz, P. Marx, A. Peichl, S. Siegloch, E. Thode and V. Tobsch) Finanzielle und Besch¨ aftigungswirkungen unterschiedlicher Tarifverl¨ aufe alternativer Hinzuverdienstregelungen, Studie f¨ ur das Bundesministerium f¨ ur Wirtschaft und Technologie, IZA Research Report No. 46 (with M. L¨ offler, A. Peichl, H. Schneider and S. Siegloch) 2011 Bemessungsgrundlage kontra F¨ unf-Stufen-Tarif: Eine Simulationsanalyse des Reformvorschlags nach Rose, Wirtschaftsdienst 91(5), 328–332 (with A. Peichl, H. Schneider and S. Siegloch) Aktivierung von Fachkr¨ aftepotenzialen: Frauen und M¨ utter, Kurzexpertise im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums f¨ ur Arbeit und Soziales, IZA Research Report No. 39 (with W. Eichhorst, M. Kendzia, A. Peichl, S. Siegloch and V. Tobsch) 2010 Gutachten zur Berechnung von Vorschl¨ agen zur Neuregelung der Erwerbst¨ atigenfreibetr¨ age im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums f¨ ur Arbeit und Soziales, IZA Research Report No. 32 (with A. Peichl, H. Schneider and S. Siegloch) Alter Wein in neuen Schl¨ auchen: Der F¨ unf-Stufen-Steuertarif der FDP auf dem Pr¨ ufstein, IZA Standpunkte No. 27 (with A. Peichl, H. Schneider and S. Siegloch) 2 Presentations International Conferences 2014 European Meeting of the International Microsimulation Association (IMA), Maastricht; 33rd General Conference of the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth (IARIW), Rotterdam; Nineteenth Annual Meetings of the Society of Labor Economists (SOLE), Arlington 2013 69th Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF), Taormina; Fifth Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ), Bari; 12th Journ´ees Louis-Andr´e G´erard-Varet (LAGV), Aix-en-Provence; Eighteenth Annual Meetings of the Society of Labor Economists (SOLE), Boston 2012 32nd General Conference of the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth (IARIW), Boston; European Meeting of the International Microsimulation Association (IMA), Dublin 2011 Annual Meeting of the German Economic Association, Frankfurt am Main; 67th Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF), Ann Arbor; Fourth Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ), Catania; New Directions in Welfare II, OECD Paris; 3rd General Conference of the International Microsimulation Association (IMA), Stockholm; Sixteenth Annual Meetings of the Society of Labor Economists (SOLE), Vancouver 2010 Annual Meeting of the German Statistical Society, Nuremberg; Annual Meeting of the German Economic Association, Kiel; 31st General Conference of the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth (IARIW), St. Gallen; 10th International Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Moscow; 24th Annual Conference of the European Society for Population Economics (ESPE), Essen Invited Seminar Presentations 2014 scheduled: CEPS/INSTEAD, Luxembourg ; ZEW Mannheim; University of Cologne 2010–2012 University of Antwerp; University of Kiel; Catholic University of Leuven; Leuphana University of L¨ uneburg; University of Hohenheim Workshops 2014 scheduled: Eighth Microcensus User Conference, Mannheim; 2nd IZA Workshop on Labor Market Effects of Environmental Policies, Bonn; 5th IZA Workshop on Entrepreneurship Research, Potsdam; Evaluation of Family Policy Measures, ZEW Mannheim; Ninth Winter School on Inequality and Social Welfare Theory (IT9), Alba di Canazei 2013 1st IZA Workshop on Labor Market Effects of Environmental Policies, Bonn; Eighth Winter School on Inequality and Social Welfare Theory (IT8), Alba di Canazei 2012 15th IZA European Summer School in Labor Economics, Buch am Ammersee; Seventh Winter School on Inequality and Social Welfare Theory (IT7), Alba di Canazei 2011 Reformoptionen: Minijobs und Ehegattenbesteuerung, Bertelsmann Stiftung, Berlin; Wirksame Gesetze durch Nachhaltigkeitspr¨ ufungen, Bertelsmann Stiftung, Deutscher Bundestag, Berlin; Sixth Winter School on Inequality and Social Welfare Theory (IT6), Alba di Canazei 2010 GINI – Growing Inequalities’ Impact, Amsterdam; Sixth International Young Scholars SOEP Symposium, Delmenhorst; 3rd RGS Doctoral Conference in Economics, Bochum; Fifth Winter School on Inequality and Social Welfare Theory (IT5), Alba di Canazei Teaching 10/2013–03/2014 Organizer of IZA’s internal research seminar Since 2010 Supervision of Diploma and Master theses in Public Economics, Universities of Cologne and Bonn 2007–2008 Undergraduate level tutorials in Microeconomics and Macroeconomics, University of Cologne Other Professional and Research Activities 10/2013–present Head of IZA’s microsimulation unit (IZAΨMOD) 01/2013–present Deputy Program Director of the IZA Research Area “Environment and Employment” (Program Director: Prof. Olivier Deschenes, PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara) Refereeing European Journal of Political Economy, IZA Journal of Labor Policy, Journal of Economic Inequality, Journal of Economics, National Tax Journal, Review of Income and Wealth, Social Indicators Research 3 Memberships International Association for Research in Income and Wealth (IARIW), Verein f¨ ur Socialpolitik (German Economic Association), International Institute for Public Finance (IIPF), Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ), Society of Labor Economists (SOLE) Research Projects (Co-)Project leader 2014–2015 Analyse der Verteilung von Einkommen und Verm¨ ogen in Deutschland (with IAW T¨ ubingen, Universit¨ at T¨ ubingen and ZEW Mannheim, on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs) 2013–2015 Verteilungswirkungen umweltpolitischer Maßnahmen und Instrumente (with FU Berlin, on behalf of the Federal Environment Agency) Member of the project team 2011–2014 Employment 2025: How will multiple transitions affect the European labour market (NEUJOBS, on behalf of the European Commission) 2012 The CSB Minimum Income Protection Indicators database (CSB-MIPI): 2012 update for Germany (on behalf of Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy, University of Antwerp) 2011 Finanzielle und Besch¨ aftigungswirkungen unterschiedlicher Tarifverl¨ aufe alternativer Hinzuverdienstregelungen gegen¨ uber dem Status Quo (on behalf of the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology); Minijobs: Situation und Gestaltungsoptionen (on behalf of Bertelsmann Stiftung); Aktivierung von Fachkr¨ aftepotenzialen: Frauen und M¨ utter (on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Labour and Social Affairs) 2010 Changes in the redistributive capacity of tax-benefit systems: Simulation-based indicators (on behalf of OECD); Gutachten zur Berechnung von Vorschl¨ agen zur Neuregelung der Erwerbst¨ atigenfreibetr¨ age (on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Labour and Social Affairs) Workshop Organization 2014 2nd IZA Workshop “Labor Market Effects of Environmental Policies”, Bonn 2013 1st IZA Workshop“Labor Market Effects of Environmental Policies”, Bonn; IZA/VEF Workshop: A European Labor Market with Full Employment, More Income Security and Less Income Inequality in 2020, Bonn 2010 Influencing Factors on the Income Distribution in Germany, Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF) and Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Berlin Courses and Workshops 2012 15th IZA European Summer School in Labor Economics, Buch am Ammersee 2011 EUROMOD training course, University of Essex, Colchester; Topics in Econometrics and Statistics: Microeconometric Analysis, Prof. Francis Vella, Ph.D. (Georgetown University), Bonn 2010 Communicating Research in Economics, Prof. Christian Hellwig, Ph.D. (Toulouse School of Economics), Cologne; LIS Annual Summer Workshop, Luxembourg Income Study; SOEPcampus, University of Mannheim; Training Course Microsimulation, Institute for Fiscal Studies/University College of London 2009 Introduction to the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), DIW Berlin 2008 Training in Academic Didactics, University of Cologne Media Appearance Print Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Handelsblatt, Welt am Sonntag, Wirtschaftswoche, energie+MITTELSTAND Radio MDR Info, Campus radio Cologne 4 References Prof. Dr. Clemens Fuest President, Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) P.O. Box 103443 68034 Mannheim, Germany [email protected] Phone: +49 621 1235-100 Prof. Dr. Klaus F. Zimmermann Director, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) P.O. Box 7240 53072 Bonn, Germany [email protected] Phone: +49 228 3894-200 Prof. Dr. Andreas Peichl Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) P.O. Box 103443 68034 Mannheim, Germany [email protected] Phone: +49 621 1235-389 PD Dr. Hilmar Schneider Director, CEPS/INSTEAD 3, avenue de la Fonte 4364 Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg [email protected] Phone: +352 58 58 55-611 5