Thomas Dohmen

Thomas Dohmen is the Director of the Research Centre for Education and the Labour market (ROA) and professor of Education and the Labour Market in the Department of Economics and Business Administration of Maastricht University. He holds Master’s degrees in Economics from the University of Warwick (England) and Maastricht University. He obtained his doctoral degree at Maastricht University in May 2003. From 2003 until 2007 he was employed as a researcher at IZA in Bonn, where he specialized in labour economics, applied microeconometrics, as well as experimental and behavioral economics.

His research focuses on three main areas: (1) the nature and economic consequences of preferences, cognitive and non-cognitive skills, (2) the psychology of incentives, (3) personnel economics. In his empirical research he combines experimental methods and econometric techniques, for example to obtain behaviorally relevant measures of preferences and attitudes in large survey data sets.

He is a research fellow at IZA in Bonn and a research professor at DIW in Berlin,, where he closely collaborates with the group that designs and develops the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP).

 

webpage: http://www.roa.unimaas.nl/cv/dohmen/cvdohmen.pdf

 

 Recent publications

 

  • “The Influence of Social Forces: Evidence from the Behavior of Football Referees,” forthcoming in Economic Inquiry.
  • “Do the Reciprocal Trust Less?,” forthcoming in Economics Letters (with Steffen Altmann and Matthias Wibral).
  • “Representative trust and reciprocity: prevalence and determinants, Economic Inquiry, Vol. 46, No. 1, January 2008, 84-90 (with Armin Falk, David Huffman and Uwe Sunde),
  • Do professionals choke under pressure? Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Vol. 65, Issues 3-4, March 2008, 636-653.
  • “Social comparison affects reward-related brain activity in the human ventral striatum,” Science 318, 1305-1308 (with Klaus Fließbach, Bernd Weber, Peter Trautner, Uwe Sunde, Christian E. Elger, and Armin Falk).
  • “Cross-Sectional Earnings Risk and Occupational Sorting: The Role of Risk Attitudes,” Labour Economics, 2007, vol. 14(6), 926-937 (with Holger Bonin, Armin Falk, David Huffman, and Uwe Sunde).
  • “Housing, Mobility, and Unemployment,” Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2005, vol. 35(3), 305-325.
  • “Performance, Seniority, and Wages: Formal Salary Systems and Individual Earnings Profiles,” Labour Economics, 2004, vol. 11(6), 741-763.
  • “Monkey Bars and Ladders: The Importance of Lateral and Vertical Movements in Internal Labor Market Careers,” Journal of Population Economics, 2004, vol. 17(2), 193-228 (with Ben Kriechel and Gerard A. Pfann).
  • “Worker Separations in a Nonstationary Corporate Environment,” European Economic Review, 2004, vol. 48(3), 645-663 (with Gerard A. Pfann).
  • “Building and Using Economic Models: A Case-Study of the IS-LL Model,” Journal of Economic Methodology, 2002, vol. 9(2), 191-212.

 

 

Books

 

  • Internal Labor Markets: Theory and Evidence at the Firm Level, Maastricht: Universitaire Pers Maastricht, 2003.

 

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