curriculum vitae - Assistant Professorship of International Trade

CURRICULUM VITAE
DANIEL BAUMGARTEN
CONTACT
University of Munich (LMU)
Department of Economics
Ludwigstr. 28 VG
80539 München, Germany
Phone: +49-(0)89-2180-3104
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.en.trade.vwl.uni-muenchen.de
RESEARCH INTERESTS
International Trade, Labour Economics
CURRENT AND PREVIOUS POSITIONS
2014 – present
Assistant Professor of International Trade at the University of Munich (LMU)
2009 – 2013
Assistant to the Board of Directors and Researcher in the Research Division “Labor
Markets, Education, Population” at Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für
Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI)
2012/13
Visiting lecturer for Econometrics at the University of Magdeburg (10/12 - 02/13)
2009/10
Visiting researcher at the Aarhus School of Business, Aarhus University, Denmark (10/09
- 02/10)
2007 – 2009
Teaching Assistant for Econometrics at the Ruhr Graduate School in Economics
EDUCATION
2006 – 2011
Dr.rer.oec. (PhD Economics), Ruhr Graduate School in Economics and Ruhr-University
Bochum
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Thomas K. Bauer
Doctoral thesis: “International Trade, Offshoring, and Labour Market Outcomes:
Evidence from German Micro Data” (summa cum laude)
2001 – 2006
Internationaler Diplom-Volkswirt (equiv. MSc in International Economics), University of
Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, and University College Cork, Ireland
PUBLICATIONS
Articles in Refereed Journals
Baumgarten, D. (forthcoming), International Trade and Worker Flows: Empirical Evidence for Germany.
Review of World Economics (Special issue).
Baumgarten, D. (forthcoming), Offshoring, the nature of tasks, and occupational stability: Empirical
evidence for Germany. World Economy. DOI: 10.1111/twec.12155.
Bachmann, R., D. Baumgarten, and J. Stiebale (2014), Foreign direct investment, heterogeneous workers,
and employment security: Evidence from Germany. Canadian Journal of Economics 47 (3): 720-757. DOI:
10.1111/caje.12094.
Bachmann, R. and D. Baumgarten (2013), How do the unemployed search for a job? - Evidence from the
EU Labour Force Survey. IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2013 (2). DOI: 10.1186/2193-9012-2-22
Baumgarten, D., I. Geishecker, and H. Görg (2013), Offshoring, tasks, and the skill-wage pattern. European
Economic Review 61: 132-152. DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2013.03.007.
Baumgarten, D. (2013), Exporters and the rise in wage inequality: Evidence from German linked
employer-employee data. Journal of International Economics 90 (1): 201-217. DOI:
10.1016/j.jinteco.2012.10.001.
Project Reports
RWI (2014), Arbeitsqualität in Zeitarbeitsverhältnissen: Abschlussbericht. (Job quality of temporary
agency work: Final report). (Team: D. Baumgarten, R. Bachmann, M. Fertig, P. Fuchs, M. Giesecke, H.
Hägele, M. Kvasnicka, U. Neumann, S. Schaffner).
RWI (2012), Durchlässiger Arbeitsmarkt durch Zeitarbeit? Studie im Auftrag der Bertelsmann Stiftung
(Does temporary agency work aid labour market permeability? Study on behalf of the Bertelsmann
Foundation). (Team: D. Baumgarten, M. Kvasnicka, J. Landmann, and E. Thode).
RWI (2012), Herausforderung Zeitarbeit. Studie im Auftrag der Bertelsmann Stiftung. (Challenge
temporary agency work. Study on behalf of the Bertelsmann Foundation). (Team: D. Baumgarten and M.
Kvasnicka).
IAB, ISG, and RWI (2011), Evaluation der Leistungen zur Beschäftigungsförderung nach § 16e Abs. 10 SGB
II: Endbericht. (Evaluation of wage subsidy measures for disadvantaged long-term unemployed provided by
§ 16e/10 SGB II: Final report.) (Team: H. Apel, D. Baumgarten, U. Büschel, K. Dengler, M. Fertig, H. Hägele,
C. Hense, A. Hirseland, K. Hohmeyer, A. Kettner, J. Kluve, S. Koch, M. Kvasnicka, A. Moczall, M. Puxi, P.
Ramos-Lobato, S. Schaffner, A. Voit, J. Wolff).
RWI and ISG (2010), Study on various aspects of labour market performance using micro data from the
European Union Labour Force Survey: Final report. (Team: R. Bachmann, D. Baumgarten, M. Fertig, H.
Kröger, S. Schaffner, M. Vorell).
Online Publications
Baumgarten, D., I. Geishecker and H. Görg (2011), Lohneinbußen durch Offshoring? Auf die Tätigkeit
kommt es an! (Negative wage effects of offshoring? Job tasks matter!) Ökonomenstimme.
http://www.oekonomenstimme.org/artikel/2011/01/lohneinbussen-durch-offshoring-auf-die-taetigkeitkommt-es-an/. 05 January 2011.
COMMISSIONED RESEARCH PROJECTS
2012 – 2015
2014
“Evaluation des Operationellen Programms des Bundes für den Europäischen
Sozialfonds (ESF) in der Förderperiode 2007-2013“ (Evaluation of the European Social
Fund (ESF) Operational Programme 2007-2013 of the German Federal Government) on
behalf of the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs.
“Globaler Handel und Lohnungleichheit” (Global trade and wage inequality) on behalf
of the Bertelsmann Foundation.
2013 – 2014
“Labour Market Transitions in Turbulent Times” on behalf of the European Foundation
for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound).
2012 – 2014
“Arbeitsqualität in Zeitarbeitsverhältnissen“ (Job quality of temporary agency work) on
behalf of the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs.
2
2013
“Mehr Gerechtigkeit: Was steht zur Wahl? Eine Analyse und Kommentierung von
Programmaussagen der Parteien zur Arbeitsmarkt- und Bildungspolitik unter dem
Gesichtspunkt der Chancengerechtigkeit ” (More equality: What can we vote for? An
analysis and comment of the party programmes on labour market and education
policies from an equality of opportunity perspective) on behalf of the Initiative Neue
Soziale Marktwirtschaft Foundation [Project leader].
2011
“Erstellung zweier Studien zum Thema Zeitarbeit” (Two studies on temporary agency
work) on behalf of the Bertelsmann Foundation [Project co-leader].
2011
“Evaluation der Leistungen zur Beschäftigungsförderung nach §16e Abs. 10 SGB II”
(Evaluation of wage subsidy measures for disadvantaged long-term unemployed) on
behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Labor and Social Affairs.
2010
“Study on various aspects of labour market performance using micro data from the
European Union Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS)” on behalf of the European Commission.
MEDIA COVERAGE (SELECTION)
Financial Times Deutschland, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurter Rundschau, Die Welt, die
tageszeitung, Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (WAZ), Der Tagesspiegel, Hamburger Abendblatt, Kölner
Stadtanzeiger, Die Presse, Spiegel Online, Süddeutsche Zeitung, WDR 5.
CONFERENCE AND SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS
2014
European Trade Study Group (Munich), University of Frankfurt/Oder, Workshop
“Internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen” (Göttingen)
2013
University of Tuebingen, FlexWorkResearch Conference (Amsterdam), University of
Munich, Workshop “The International side of deindustrialization and labor market
dynamics in Japan, Korea, Germany, and France” (Tokyo).
2012
European Association of Labour Economists (Bonn).
2011
Verein für Socialpolitik (Frankfurt); European Economic Association (Oslo); 4th User
Conference of the RDC of the BA at the IAB (Nuremberg); Workshop “Internationale
Wirtschaftsbeziehungen” (Göttingen); Berlin Network of Labor Market Research
2010
Ruhr-University Bochum; Verein für Socialpolitik (Kiel); Workshop “Internationale
Wirtschaftsbeziehungen” (Göttingen); Aarhus School of Business
2009
Danish Graduate Programme in Economics (Ebeltoft); European Association of Labour
Economists (Tallinn); Econometric Society European Meeting (Barcelona); International
Workshop “Poverty and Inequality in the Global Economy” (Mannheim); Workshop
“Internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen” (Göttingen)
2008
3rd User Conference on the Analysis of BA and IAB Data (Nuremberg); European Trade
Study Group (Warsaw)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2014/15
“Offshoring and Multinational Firms” (lecture and tutorial), University of Munich, Master
level
Reading Course “Recent Job Market Papers in International Trade”, University of
Munich, PhD level
2014
“Empirical International Trade” (lecture and tutorial), University of Munich, Master level
2012/13
“Econometrics” (lecture and tutorial), University of Magdeburg, Master level
3
2008, 2009
Tutorial “Econometrics II”, Ruhr Graduate School in Economics, PhD level
2007/08
Tutorial “Econometrics I”, Ruhr Graduate School in Economics, PhD level
REFEREEING
Economic Systems, Empirical Economics, European Economic Review, German Economic Review, Journal of
Economic Behavior & Organization, Labour Economics, LABOUR: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial
Relations, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Research in Labor Economics, Review of World Economics,
Scandinavian Journal of Economics, World Economy
SCHOLARSHIPS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS
2014
Prize for best refereed publication at RWI in 2013 (“Foreign direct investment,
heterogeneous workers, and employment security: Evidence from Germany”, joint with
R. Bachmann and J. Stiebale, published in Canadian Journal of Economics)
2013
Prize for best refereed publication at RWI in 2012 (“Exporters and the rise in wage
inequality: Evidence from German linked employer-employee data”, published in Journal
of International Economics)
2009/10
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD): Grant for research visit at Aarhus School of
Business, Aarhus University, Denmark
2009
Deutsche Bundesbank: Travel grant for talk at the Econometric Society European
Meeting
2006-2009
Ruhr Graduate School in Economics and Leibniz Association: Full PhD scholarship
2007
Sparkassenförderpreis (Award by Sparkasse Nuremberg) for academic achievements
(diploma thesis)
2004
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD): Travel grant for internship at the GermanEcuadorian Chamber of Industry and Commerce
LANGUAGES
German (native), English (fluent), Spanish (fluent).
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