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Benedikt Herz

European Commission, Belgium

Good policy relies on sound empirical evidence. For policymakers especially, IZA World of Labor is therefore an important outlet that covers a wide range of recent developments in labor economics

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Author

Current position

Economist, European Commission, Belgium

Research interest

Labor economics, applied economics

Website

https://benedikt-herz.github.io/

Qualifications

PhD Economics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2015

Selected publications

  • "Border effects in European public procurement." Journal of Economic Geography (Forthcoming) (with X.-L. Varela-Irimia).

  • "Structural change and the fertility transition in the American South." Review of Economics and Statistics (Forthcoming) (with P. Ager and M. Brueckner).

  • "Accounting for mismatch unemployment." Journal of the European Economic Association (Forthcoming) (with T. van Rens).

  • "Specific human capital and wait unemployment." Journal of Labor Economics 37:2 (2019).

  • “Effects of the European Union trademark: Lessons for the harmonization of intellectual property systems.” Research Policy 48:7 (2019) (with M. Mejer).

article(s)

  • The labor market in the UK, 2000–2019 Updated

    Unemployment rose only modestly during the Great Recession and fell strongly since, with productivity and wages lagging behind

    Benedikt HerzThijs van Rens, February 2020
    Experiences during the Great Recession support the view that the UK labor market is relatively flexible. Unemployment rose less and recovered faster than in most other European economies. However, this success has been accompanied by a stagnation of productivity and wages; an open question is whether this represents a cyclical phenomenon or a structural problem. In addition, the effects of the planned exit of the UK from the EU (Brexit), which is quite possibly the greatest current threat to the stability of the UK labor market, are not yet visible in labor market statistics.
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