Assist. Prof. Albert Jan Hummel

Labor-market Policies

Albert Jan Hummel recently obtained a grant from the NWO Dutch Research Council to study the implications of firm heterogeneity for the effects of labor-market policies on wages and employment, and the consequences for their optimal design. During his stay in Munich, he would like to make progress on the question how changes in income taxes and unemployment benefits affect sorting patterns in the labor market, which has important implications both for efficiency (i.e., the size of the economic pie) and equity (i.e., how the pie is distributed). Furthermore, he intends to work on the question how minimum-wage policies affect labor-market outcomes when firms differ both in their productivity and how much labor market power they can exert.

Mr. Hummel’s research interests lie at the intersection of public economics and macroeconomics, with links to labor and environmental economics. He works on questions related to the optimal design of policies to address inequality and climate change, mostly from an (applied) theoretical perspective.

Albert Jan Hummel is Associate Professor at the University of Groningen. He is a Research Affiliate of the CESifo Research Network and a Candidate Fellow of the Tinbergen Institute He holds a PhD in Economics from the Erasmus University Rotterdam and Tinbergen Institute, an MPhil in Economics from the Tinbergen Institute, and a BSc in Economics as well as a BSc in Business Economics from Rijksuniversiteit Groningen.