Robert Mahlstedt

Visiting Research Fellow

University of Copenhagen

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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 a Visiting Research Fellow in February 2021.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15011
The Intended and Unintended Effects of Promoting Labor Market Mobility
Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn, Robert Mahlstedt
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14940
Transparency of the Welfare System and Labor Market Outcomes of Unemployed Workers
Sofie Cairo, Robert Mahlstedt
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
forthcoming in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics.
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
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. 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.
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.
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