Steffen Altmann

Research Fellow and Associated Member

University of Duisburg-Essen

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Steffen Altmann is Professor of Economics at the University of Duisburg-Essen and Director of the research unit "Behavioral Economics and Labor Market Performance" at the University of Copenhagen. He studied Economics at the University of Mannheim and received his Ph.D. from the University of Bonn in 2009. He worked at IZA as a Resident Research Affiliate (2005-2007), Research Associate (2007-2010), Senior Research Associate (2010-2014) and as Team Leader of the IZA research team "Personalized Labor Market Policy" (2019-2023). From 2007 until 2014, he also served as Deputy Program Director for IZA's research program area "Behavioral and Personnel Economics". He continues to maintain close ties with the IZA research team as an Associated Member.

His research interests include behavioral and experimental economics as well as labor economics and human resource management. In his research, he investigates how psychological motives and economic incentives shape workplace behavior and aggregate labor market outcomes. He is also interested in applying insights from behavioral economics to questions in public policy.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16696
Which Occupations Do Unemployed Workers Target? Insights from Online Job Search Profiles
Steffen Altmann, Robert Mahlstedt, Malte Jacob Rattenborg, Alexander Sebald
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15830
The Direct and Indirect Effects of Online Job Search Advice
Steffen Altmann, Anita Marie Glenny, Robert Mahlstedt, Alexander Sebald
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15747
Do Job Seekers Understand the UI Benefit System (And Does It Matter)?
Steffen Altmann, Sofie Cairo, Robert Mahlstedt, Alexander Sebald
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12337
Passive Choices and Cognitive Spillovers
Steffen Altmann, Andreas Grunewald, Jonas Radbruch
published as 'Interventions and Cognitive Spillovers' in: Review of Economic Studies, 2022, 89 (5), 2293-2328
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11129
Deadlines and Cognitive Limitations
Steffen Altmann, Christian Traxler, Philipp Weinschenk
substantially revised version published in: Management Science, 2022, 68 (9), 6733-6750
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9040
Learning about Job Search: A Field Experiment with Job Seekers in Germany
Steffen Altmann, Armin Falk, Simon Jäger, Florian Zimmermann
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 164, 33-49
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8680
Defaults and Donations: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Steffen Altmann, Armin Falk, Paul Heidhues, Rajshri Jayaraman
substantially revised version published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 101 (5), 808-826
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7610
Incentives and Information as Driving Forces of Default Effects
Steffen Altmann, Armin Falk, Andreas Grunewald
substantially revised version published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 89 (5), 2293-2328.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6699
Nudges at the Dentist
Steffen Altmann, Christian Traxler
revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2014, 72, 19-38
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5727
Equity and Efficiency in Multi-Worker Firms: Insights from Experimental Economics
Johannes Abeler, Steffen Altmann, Sebastian J. Goerg, Sebastian Kube, Matthias Wibral
published in: Analyse & Kritik, 2011, 33(1), 325-347
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5001
Implicit Contracts, Unemployment, and Labor Market Segmentation
Steffen Altmann, Armin Falk, David B. Huffman
substantially revised version published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2014, 81 (1), 30-56
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4262
Gift Exchange and Workers' Fairness Concerns: When Equality Is Unfair
Johannes Abeler, Steffen Altmann, Sebastian Kube, Matthias Wibral
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2010, 8(6), 1299-1324
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3835
Promotions and Incentives: The Case of Multi-Stage Elimination Tournaments
Steffen Altmann, Armin Falk, Matthias Wibral
revised and extended version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2012, 30 (1), 149-174
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3010
Do the Reciprocal Trust Less?
Steffen Altmann, Thomas Dohmen, Matthias Wibral
published in: Economics Letters, 2008, 99 (3), 454-457
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2500
Reciprocity and Payment Schemes: When Equality Is Unfair
Johannes Abeler, Steffen Altmann, Sebastian Kube, Matthias Wibral
substantially revised version appeared as DP No. 4262
IZA Standpunkt Nr. 12
Eingeschränkt rationales Verhalten: Evidenz und wirtschaftspolitische Implikationen
Steffen Altmann, Armin Falk, Felix Marklein
published in: Beihefte der Zeitschrift für das gesamte Handelsrecht und Wirtschaftsrecht, 2011, 75, 63-82
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