Andreas Kuhn

Research Fellow

Swiss Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training

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Andreas Kuhn is a senior researcher and lecturer at the Swiss Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training, and he is also affiliated with the Centre for Research in Economics of Education at the University of Bern, Switzerland. He received his Ph.D. in economics in April 2008 from the University of Zurich, following studies in sociology, economics, and economic history, also at the University of Zurich.

He is broadly interested in the main fields of applied microeconomics (health and labor economics, economics of education, and public economics) and in applied microeconometrics, especially evaluation methods. In his current position, he focuses especially on the economics of vocational education and training.

His current research focuses on questions concerning the career choices of adolescents and on the factors influencing the provision of apprenticeship positions of firms.

Andreas joined IZA as a Research Fellow in January 2009.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12861
The Strength of Gender Norms and Gender-Stereotypical Occupational Aspirations among Adolescents
Andreas Kuhn, Stefan C. Wolter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12479
Open Labor Markets and Firms’ Substitution between Training Apprentices and Hiring Workers
Manuel Aepli, Andreas Kuhn
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12159
Local Norms Describing the Role of the State and the Private Provision of Training
Andreas Kuhn, Jürg Schweri, Stefan C. Wolter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11851
Fatal Attraction? Extended Unemployment Benefits, Labor Force Exits, and Mortality
Andreas Kuhn, Stefan Staubli, Jean-Philippe Wuellrich, Josef Zweimüller
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9579
The Individual Perception of Wage Inequality: A Measurement Framework and Some Empirical Evidence
Andreas Kuhn
revised version forthcoming as `The Individual (Mis-)Perception of Wage Inequality: Measurement, Correlates and Implications' in: Empirical Economics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9406
The Subversive Nature of Inequality: Subjective Inequality Perceptions and Attitudes to Social Inequality
Andreas Kuhn
revised and shortened version published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2019, 59, 331-344
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8409
Immigration, Cultural Distance and Natives' Attitudes Towards Immigrants: Evidence from Swiss Voting Results
Beatrice Brunner, Andreas Kuhn
revised version published in: Kyklos, 2018, 71(1), 28-58
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6721
Redistributive Preferences, Redistribution, and Inequality: Evidence from a Panel of OECD Countries
Andreas Kuhn
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6141
Financial Incentives, the Timing of Births, Birth Complications, and Newborns' Health: Evidence from the Abolition of Austria's Baby Bonus
Beatrice Brunner, Andreas Kuhn
revised version published as 'Announcement effects of health policy reforms: evidence from the abolition of Austria's baby bonus' in: European Journal of Health Economics, 2014, 15(4), 373-388
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5573
Inequality Perceptions, Distributional Norms, and Redistributive Preferences in East and West Germany
Andreas Kuhn
revised and shortened version published in: German Economic Review, 2013, 14(4), 483-499
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