Marco Caliendo

Program Coordinator and Visiting Research Fellow

University of Potsdam

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Marco Caliendo is Professor of Empirical Economics at the University of Potsdam. He studied economics at the University of Manchester and the Goethe-University of Frankfurt where he also received his PhD in April 2005. From January 2005 until July 2007 he worked for the DIW in Berlin as a Senior Research Associate in the Public Economics Department.

His current research interests include the evaluation of labor market programs, job search and unemployment dynamics, self-employment/entrepreneurship, the influence of personality traits on economic outcomes, and applied microeconometrics. His work has been published in journals such as Review of Economics and Statistics, European Economic Review, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Population Economics, Journal of Economic Psychology and Small Business Economics.

He joined IZA as a Senior Research Associate in August 2007 and served as Deputy Program Director for the IZA research area "Evaluation of Labor Market Programs" until January 2009. From February 2009 until September 2011 he served as Director of Research at IZA. Since October 2011 Marco Caliendo has been acting as Program Director of IZA’s research area “Evaluation of Labor Market Programs”.

You can access most of his papers also on RePEC at http://ideas.repec.org/e/pca21.html.

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IZA Discussion Paper No. 12043
The Causal Effects of the Minimum Wage Introduction in Germany: An Overview
Marco Caliendo, Carsten Schröder, Linda Wittbrodt
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11246
The Short-Term Distributional Effects of the German Minimum Wage Reform
Marco Caliendo, Alexandra Fedorets, Malte Preuß, Carsten Schröder, Linda Wittbrodt
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11190
The Short-Run Employment Effects of the German Minimum Wage Reform
Marco Caliendo, Alexandra Fedorets, Malte Preuß, Carsten Schröder, Linda Wittbrodt
published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 53, 46-62. [free download until October 10, 2018 here].
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11169
Mobility Assistance Programmes for Unemployed Workers, Job Search Behaviour and Labour Market Outcomes
Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn, Robert Mahlstedt
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11055
The Post-Reform Effectiveness of the New German Start-Up Subsidy for the Unemployed
Lutz Bellmann, Marco Caliendo, Stefan Tübbicke
published in: LABOUR: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, 2018, 32(3), 293-319
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10406
Locus of Control and Investment in Training
Marco Caliendo, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Helke Seitz, Arne Uhlendorff
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10177
Earnings Exemptions for Unemployed Workers: The Relationship between Marginal Employment, Unemployment Duration and Job Quality
Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn, Arne Uhlendorff
published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 42, 177-193
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9628
Personality Traits and the Evaluation of Start-Up Subsidies
Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn, Martin Weißenberger
published in: European Economic Review, 2016, 86, 87-108
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9600
Job Search, Locus of Control, and Internal Migration
Marco Caliendo, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Juliane Hennecke, Arne Uhlendorff
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9488
Youth Unemployment and Active Labor Market Policies in Europe
Marco Caliendo, Ricarda Schmidl
published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2016, 5 (1), 1-30 [Open Access]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9183
The Return to Labor Market Mobility: An Evaluation of Relocation Assistance for the Unemployed
Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn, Robert Mahlstedt
revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 148, 136-151
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8972
Home-Ownership, Unemployed's Job Search Behavior and Post-Unemployment Outcomes
Marco Caliendo, Anne C. Gielen, Robert Mahlstedt
published in: Economics Letters, 2015, 137, 218-221
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8817
Subsidized Start-Ups out of Unemployment: A Comparison to Regular Business Start-Ups
Marco Caliendo, Jens Hogenacker, Steffen Künn, Frank Wießner
published in: Small Business Economics, 45(1), 2015, 165-190
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8337
Unobservable, but Unimportant? The Influence of Personality Traits (and Other Usually Unobserved Variables) for the Evaluation of Labor Market Policies
Marco Caliendo, Robert Mahlstedt, Oscar A. Mitnik
substantially revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 46, 14-25 [free download until May 11, 2017 here].
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8305
The Gender Wage Gap: Does a Gender Gap in Reservation Wages Play a Part?
Marco Caliendo, Wang-Sheng Lee, Robert Mahlstedt
substantially revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, 136, 161-173.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7971
The IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey: A Scientific Use File
Patrick Arni, Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn, Klaus F. Zimmermann
revised version published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2014, 3(6), 1-20 [Open Access]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7947
Obesity and the Labor Market: A Fresh Look at the Weight Penalty
Marco Caliendo, Markus Gehrsitz
published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2016, 23, 209-225
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7460
Regional Effect Heterogeneity of Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed
Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn
published in Regional Studies, 2014, 48 (6), 1108-1134
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6830
Getting Back into the Labor Market: The Effects of Start-Up Subsidies for Unemployed Females
Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2015, 28(4), 1005-1043
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6810
The German Labor Market after the Great Recession: Successful Reforms and Future Challenges
Marco Caliendo, Jens Hogenacker
published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2012, 1(3), 1-24 [Open Access]
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