Holger Lüthen
PhD Candidate
Room 402 B
Professional Positions:
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Since 04/2013 |
Research Assistant, Deutsches Institut für Witschaftsforschung (DIW) Berlin, Germany. |
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Since 04/2013 |
Research Assistant, Chair of Public Finance, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. |
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02/2012 - 04/2013 |
Research Associate, Hertie School of Governance Berlin, Germany. |
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03/2011 |
Visiting Researcher at the Urban Institute in Washington, D. C., USA. |
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12/2010 |
Visiting Researcher at the Research Data Centre of the German Pension Insurance Berlin, Germany. |
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4/2009 - 8/2010 |
Student Assistant, Chair of Public Finance, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. |
Education:
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1/2011 - 4/2011 |
Visiting Ph.D. Student, Georgetown University in Washington, D. C., USA. |
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9/2010 - present |
Ph.D. Student in Economics, Graduate Center of the DIW Berlin, Germany. |
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9/2010 |
Research Associate, Hertie School of Governance Berlin, Germany. |
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03/2011 |
Diplom in Economics (eq. Master of Science in Economics) at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. |
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9/2008 - 1/2009 |
Studies in Economics at the University of Limerick, Ireland. |
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10/2005 - 8/2010 |
Studies in Economics at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. |
Tutorials:
- State and Allocation
- Economics of the Welfare State
- Advanced Quantitative Analysis: Identification and Causality
- Introductory Economics
- Welfare state and Globalization
- Public Companies and Regulation
Seminars:
- Empirical Distribution Analysis in Germany
Research interests:
- Welfare State, Social Security
- Earnings distribution
- Long-term labor market developments
Selected conference presentations:
- Annual Congress of the European Economic Association (EEA), Annual Meeting of the International Institute for Public Finance (IIPF), Annual Meeting of the German Economic Association (VfS), Annual Meeting of the European Association for Labour Economics (EALE), Annual Workshop of the German Pension Insurance Research Data Center (FDZ-RV), Biannual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ).
Invited talks:
- German Pension Insurance (2012).
Contributions to peer-reviewed journals:
- Effectiveness of early retirement disincentives: individual welfare, distributional and fiscal implications (with T. Bönke and D. Kemptner), Labour Economics (forthcoming).
- Rates of Return and Early Retirement Disincentives, German Economic Review 2016, 17(2).
- Lifetime earnings inequality in Germany (mit T. Bönke und G. Corneo), Journal of Labor Economics 2015, 33(1) [
, Online Appendix ].
Other contributions:
- Lebenseinkommensungleichheit westdeutscher Männer: Ergebnisse auf Basis deutscher Sozialversicherungsdaten für die Jahrgänge 1938-1944 (mit T. Bönke und G. Corneo), in Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund (Hrsg.): DRV-Schriften Band 55/2010, S. 232 - 249.
- Ungleichheitsdynamik in Deutschland: permanente Divergenz oder transitorische Fluktuation? (mit T. Bönke und M. Giesecke), in Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund (Hrsg.): DRV-Schriften Band 55/2010, S. 177 - 193.
- Der Koalitionsvertrag nimmt die Gesellschaft in die Pflicht (mit S. Bach, H. Buslei, K. van Deuverden, T. Duso, F. Fichtner, M. Fratzscher, J. Geyer, M. Gornig, P. Haan, C. Kemfert, C. Michelsen, K.-U. Müller, K. Neuhoff, E. Schulz, J. Schupp, K. Spieß und G. Wagner), in DIW Wochenbericht, DIW Berlin, Vol. 80(50), S. 31-42.
- Lebenseinkommen von Arbeitnehmern in Deutschland: Ungleichheit verdoppelt sich zwischen den Geburtsjahrgängen 1935 und 1972 (mit T. Bönke), DIW Wochenbericht 49/2014, 1271 - 1277.
Discussion papers:
- Lifetime Earnings Inequality in Germany (mit T. Bönke und C. Corneo), Discussion Paper, DIW Berlin, Nr. 1160/2011.
- Rates of Return and Early Retirement Disincentives, Discussion Paper, DIW Berlin, Nr. 1389/2014.
