Stephan L. Thomsen

Research Fellow

Leibniz Universität Hannover

thomsen@wipol.uni-hannover.de

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Stephan L. Thomsen is professor of economics at the Leibniz Universität Hannover. His research focuses on applied econometrics and (micro-)econometric evaluations, and he contributes to questions on labor and education economics, primarily in the area of the evaluation of political reforms, human capital, migration, and social security.

He studied economics (Dipl.-Volksw., 2001) at the Goethe Universität Frankfurt and business economics at the universities of Frankfurt and Hagen (Dipl.-Kfm., 2004). From 2001 to 2006, he worked at the Universität Frankfurt, where he obtained his doctorate in 2006. After that, he moved to ZEW Mannheim as a post-doc researcher from 2006 to 2007. In August 2007, Stephan Thomsen became junior professor of labor economics at the Universität Magdeburg. From 2011 to 2016, he was chairman and academic head of NIW Hannover (Niedersächsisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung).

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in August 2014.

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IZA-Publikationen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17487

Early Career Effects of Entering the Labor Market During Higher Education Expansion

Johannes Goehausen, Stephan L. Thomsen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16779

Can Voluntary Adult Education Reduce Unemployment? Causal Evidence from East Germany after Reunification

Li Kathrin Kaja Rupieper, Stephan L. Thomsen

published in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2025, 59, 2 (2025)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16726

Housing Costs, College Enrollment, and Student Mobility

Johannes Goehausen, Stephan L. Thomsen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15823

Minimum Wage in Germany: Countering the Wage and Employment Gap between Migrants and Natives?

Kai Ingwersen, Stephan L. Thomsen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15280

The Third Mission in the Academic Profession: Empirical Insights into Academic Identities

Vitus Püttmann, Stephan L. Thomsen

revised version forthcoming as 'The Microfoundations of Academics’ Engagement with Society' in: Technovation, 2025.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15199

Explaining Regional Disparities in Housing Prices across German Districts

Lars Brausewetter, Stephan L. Thomsen, Johannes Trunzer

revised version published as 'Regional Supply and Demand Fundamentals in the German Housing Price Boom' in: German Economic Review, 2024, 25 (1), 1-36.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15110

The Financial Situation of Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Dennis H. Meier, Stephan L. Thomsen, Johannes Trunzer

revised version forthcoming in: Soziale Welt

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14757

Did the "Bologna Process" Achieve Its Goals? 20 Years of Empirical Evidence on Student Enrolment, Study Success and Labour Market Outcomes

Martina Kroher, Kathrin Leuze, Stephan L. Thomsen, Johannes Trunzer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14668

Academics' Attitudes toward Engaging in Public Discussions - Experimental Evidence on the Impact of Engagement Conditions

Vitus Püttmann, Jens Ruhose, Stephan L. Thomsen

published online in: Research in Higher Education, 5 December 2022

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13962

An Empirical Assessment of Workload and Migrants' Health in Germany

Kai Ingwersen, Stephan L. Thomsen

published in: BMC Public Health, 2024, 24, 2164 .

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13806

Did the Bologna Process Challenge the German Apprenticeship System? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Stephan L. Thomsen, Johannes Trunzer

revised version published online in: Journal of Human Capital, 11 October 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13416

Are Older Workers Willing to Learn?

Jens Ruhose, Stephan L. Thomsen, Insa Weilage

revised version published as 'No mental retirement: estimating voluntary adult education activities of older workers' in: Education Economics, 2023, 32 (4), 440–473.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12358

The Immigrant-Native Wage Gap in Germany Revisited

Kai Ingwersen, Stephan L. Thomsen

published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2021, 19, 825-854.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11854

The Wider Benefits of Adult Learning: Work-Related Training and Social Capital

Jens Ruhose, Stephan L. Thomsen, Insa Weilage

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2019, 72, 166-186,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11687

The Effects of Universal Public Childcare Provision on Cases of Child Neglect and Abuse

Malte Sandner, Stephan L. Thomsen

revised version published online as 'Preventing Child Maltreatment: Beneficial Side Effects of Public Childcare' (joint with Libertad Gonzalez) in: Economic Journal, 19 July 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11044

Gender Differences in the Development of Other-Regarding Preferences

Katrin John, Stephan L. Thomsen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10334

The Changing Situation of Labor Market Entrants in Germany: A Long-Run Analysis of Wages and Occupational Patterns

Mario Reinhold, Stephan L. Thomsen

published in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2017, 50 (1), 161–174

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9878

Rising Work Complexity but Decreasing Returns

Anna Katharina Pikos, Stephan L. Thomsen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9507

New Evidence on the Effects of the Shortened School Duration in the German States: An Evaluation of Post-Secondary Education Decisions