Robert Mahlstedt

Research Fellow

University of Copenhagen

robert.mahlstedt@econ.ku.dk

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Research Interests

Robert Mahlstedt is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Copenhagen. He completed his PhD at the University of Potsdam in 2017.

His research interests include the evaluation of public policies, labor economics, behavioral economics and microeconometrics. His current work focuses on the relevance of psychological motives and behavioral economic concepts for the job search behavior of unemployed workers and subsequent labor market outcomes.

Robert was a Resident Research Affiliate at IZA from 2012 until April 2017. He became a Research Affiliate in May 2017 and Research Fellow in 2024. He was a Visiting Research Fellow from February 2021 - 2023.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17198

The Accuracy of Job Seekers' Wage Expectations

Marco Caliendo, Robert Mahlstedt, Aiko Schmeißer, Sophie Wagner

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. 15011

The Intended and Unintended Effects of Promoting Labor Market Mobility

Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn, Robert Mahlstedt

published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 29 November 2023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14940

Transparency of the Welfare System and Labor Market Outcomes of Unemployed Workers

Sofie Cairo, Robert Mahlstedt

substantially revised version published as 'The disparate effects of information provision: A field experiment on the work incentives of social welfare' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2023, 226, 104987

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13941

Risk Sharing Within and Outside the Firm: The Disparate Effects of Wrongful Discharge Laws on Expected Stock Returns

Robert Mahlstedt, Rüdiger Weber

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13846

Side Effects of Labor Market Policies

Marco Caliendo, Robert Mahlstedt, Gerard J. van den Berg, Johan Vikström

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2023, 125 (2), 339 - 375

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11169

Mobility Assistance Programmes for Unemployed Workers, Job Search Behaviour and Labour Market Outcomes

Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn, Robert Mahlstedt

substantially revised version available as IZA DP No. 15011

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9183