Dr. Carsten Feuerbaum
Former Research Fellow
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research
Areas of Interest:
Empirical Methods, Data Analysis, Machine Learning, Innovation Economics, Labor Markets, Automation, Artificial Intelligence
Academic Résumé
2019 - 2020
Junior Research Fellow and Doctoral Candidate, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition (Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research). Doctoral Thesis: “Labor, Automation Innovation and Human Capital”
2019
Professional Data Science Certificate, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich
2018 - 2019
Visiting Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition (Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research)
2018
Bayesian Machine Learning in Social Sciences, Barcelona GSE Data Science Summer School
2017
Data Science and Big Data Analytics: An Introduction, Methods Summer Programme, London School of Economics
2015 - 2019
Ph.D. (Dr. rer. pol.), KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
Doctoral Thesis: “Labor, Automation Innovation and Human Capital”
Graduate Program Evidence-Based Economics (EBE) of the Elitenetwork of Bavaria
Since 2015
Research Associate, KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Seminar for Microeconomics
2013 - 2015
Master in Economics (M.Sc.), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich
2013 - 2015
Student Assistant, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition (Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research)
2010 - 2013
Bachelor in Economics (B.Sc.), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich/University of Zurich
2009 - 2012
Professional experience: BayernInvest (Sales Institutional Funds) and BayernLB (Sales Promotional Loans, Coordination Financial Market Services)
Honors, Scholarships, Academic Prizes
2019
DAAD Travel Grant
2017
Travel Grant of the European Economic Association;
DAAD Travel Grant
Since 2015
Fellow of the Elite Network Bavaria
2013
Nomination for the LMU Research Prize for Excellent Students
Research Project in Time Series Analysis: “Cleaning and Forecasting Population Data”
2011 - 2012
ERASMUS Scholarship for studies at the University of Zurich, Switzerland
Publications
Further Publications, Press Articles, Interviews
(2020). Beeinflusst das Arbeitsangebot Automatisierungsinnovation?, Ökonomenstimme 2020.
Monographies
(2020). Labour, Automation Innovation and Human Capital, Dissertation. Eichstätt-Ingolstadt: Katholische Universität.
Discussion Papers
(2020). Labor Supply and Automation Innovation, CESifo Working Paper, No. 8410.
- While economic theory suggests substitutability between labor and capital, little evidence exists regarding the causal effect of labor supply on inventing labor-saving technologies. We analyze the impact of exogenous changes in regional labor supply on automation innovation by exploiting an immigrant placement policy in Germany during the 1990s and 2000s. Difference-in-differences estimates indicate that one additional worker per 1,000 manual and unskilled workers reduces automation innovation by 0.05 patents. The effect is most pronounced two years after immigration and confined to industries containing many low-skilled workers. Labor market tightness and external demand are plausible mechanisms for the labor-innovation nexus.
- Available at SSRN
- Also published as: Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition Research Paper No. 20-09
- Also published as: IZA Discussion Paper No. 13429
(2020). Labor Supply and Automation Innovation, Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition Research Paper, No. 20-09.
- While economic theory suggests substitutability between labor and capital, little evidence exists regarding the causal effect of labor supply on inventing labor-saving technologies. We analyze the impact of exogenous changes in regional labor supply on automation innovation by exploiting an immigrant placement policy in Germany during the 1990s and 2000s. Difference-in-differences estimates indicate that one additional worker per 1,000 manual and unskilled workers reduces automation innovation by 0.05 patents. The effect is most pronounced two years after immigration and confined to industries containing many low-skilled workers. Labor market tightness and external demand are plausible mechanisms for the labor-innovation nexus.
- Available at SSRN
- Also published as: IZA DP No. 13429
- Also published as: CESifo Working Paper No. 8410
(2020). Labor Supply and Automation Innovation, IZA DP, No. 13429. Bonn: IZA – Institute of Labor Economics.
- While economic theory suggests substitutability between labor and capital, little evidence exists regarding the causal effect of labor supply on inventing labor-saving technologies. We analyze the impact of exogenous changes in regional labor supply on automation innovation by exploiting an immigrant placement policy in Germany during the 1990s and 2000s. Difference-in-differences estimates indicate that one additional worker per 1,000 manual and unskilled workers reduces automation innovation by 0.05 patents. The effect is most pronounced two years after immigration and confined to industries containing many low-skilled workers. Labor market tightness and external demand are plausible mechanisms for the labor-innovation nexus.
- https://www.iza.org/de/publications/dp/13429/labor-supply-and-automation-innovation
- Also published as: Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition Research Paper No. 20-09
- Also published as: CESifo Working Paper No. 8410
(2018). Growing up in Ethnic Enclaves: Language Proficiency and Educational Attainment of Immigrant Children, CESifo Working Paper, 7097.
- Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children’s acquisition of host-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the exogenous placement of guest workers from five ethnicities across German regions during the 1960s and 1970s in a model with region and ethnicity fixed effects. Our results indicate that exposure to a higher own-ethnic concentration impairs immigrant children’s host-country language proficiency and increases school dropout. A key mediating factor for this effect is parents’ lower speaking proficiency in the host-country language, whereas inter-ethnic contacts with natives and economic conditions do not play a role.
- Available at SSRN
Presentations and Lectures
09/2020
Updates on Labor Supply and Automation Innovation
Research Seminar, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
Location: online
09/2020
Defense Spending and Innovation
Research Seminar, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
Location: online
01/15/2020
Labor Recruitment and Automation Innovation
TUM Research Seminar in Economics
Location: Munich
11/29/2019
Labor Supply and Automation Innovation
CESifo/LINER-AUEB Conference: The Effects of the Digital Transformation on the Workplace and the Labor Market
Location: Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Munich
10/28/2019
Labor Supply and Automation Innovation
LMU Innovation Workshop
Location: Munich
09/21/2019
Labor Supply and Automation Innovation
31st EALE Conference 2019
Location: University of Uppsala, Sweden
08/20/2019
Labor Supply and Automation Innovation
EEA-ESEM Congress
Location: University of Manchester, United Kingdom
06/22/2019
Labor Supply and Automation Innovation
ESPE 33st Annual Conference
Location: University of Bath, United Kingdom
06/16/2019
Labor Supply and Automation Innovation
Ohlstadt/Ammersee Workshop
Location: Ohlstadt
06/12/2019
Labor Supply and Automation Innovation
Migration and Mobility Workshop
Location: University of Glasgow, Scotland
05/27/2019
Labor Supply and Automation Innovation
RENIR Workshop on the impact of automation and artificial intelligence on regional economies
Location: University of Turin, Italy
05/17/2019
Labor Supply and Automation Innovation
8th ZEW/MaCCI Conference on the Economics of Innovation and Competition
Location: Mannheim
04/17/2019
Labor Supply and Automation Innovation
Royal Economic Society Annual Conference 2019
Location: University of Warwick, United Kingdom
02/20/2019
Labor Supply and Automation Innovation
Brown Bag-Seminar
Location: Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich
01/30/2019
Labor Supply and Automation Innovation
TUM Research Seminar in Economics
Location: Munich
01/25/2019
Labor Supply and Automation Innovation
27th BGPE Research Workshop
Location: Munich
06/30/2018
Migration and Automation Innovation
Evidence-Based Economics Summer Meeting 2018
Location: Ammersee
05/24/2018
Growing up in Ethnic Enclaves: Language Proficiency and Educational Attainment of Immigrant Children
21st IZA Summer School in Labor Economics
Location: Buch
09/22/2017
Growing up in Ethnic Enclaves: Language Proficiency and Educational Attainment of Immigrant Children
EALE Conference
Location: University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
09/06/2017
Growing up in Ethnic Enclaves: Language Proficiency and Educational Attainment of Immigrant Children
VfS Annual Meeting
Location: University of Vienna, Austria
06/30/2017
Growing up in Ethnic Enclaves: Language Proficiency and Educational Attainment of Immigrant Children
10th Bavarian Micro Day
Location: University of the Bundeswehr Munich, Neubiberg
06/17/2017
Growing up in Ethnic Enclaves: Language Proficiency and Educational Attainment of Immigrant Children
ESPE 31st Annual Conference
Location: University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
05/26/2017
Growing up in Ethnic Enclaves: Language Proficiency and Educational Attainment of Immigrant Children
14th IZA Annual Migration Meeting
Location: Bonn
04/13/2017
Growing up in Ethnic Enclaves: Language Proficiency and Educational Attainment of Immigrant Children
RES Symposium of Junior Researchers, Bristol
Location: University of Bristol, United Kingdom
03/11/2017
Growing up in Ethnic Enclaves: Language Proficiency and Educational Attainment of Immigrant Children
Applied Microeconomics Workshop
Location: University of Bolzano, Italy
10/13/2016
Growing up in Ethnic Enclaves: The Effects on Education and Language Proficiency
ZEW Workshop on Assimilation and Integration of Immigrants
Location: Mannheim
06/24/2016
The Effects on Education and Language Proficiency of Growing up in Ethnic Enclaves: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Immigrant Children in Germany
CEMIR Junior Economist Workshop on Migration Research
Location: Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Munich
06/09/2016
Growing up in Ethnic Enclaves: The Effects on Education and Language Proficiency
22th BGPE Research Workshop
Location: Munich
Projects
Labor Supply and Automation Innovation
Labor Recruitment and (Non-)Automation Innovation
Defense Spending and Innovation
Courses
ST 2018, 2019, 2020
Econometrics (BSc)
KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
ST 2016, 2017
Econometrics (MSc)
KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
WT 2018/19, 2019/20
Policy Evaluation (MSc)
KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
ST 2017
Economics of Migration (BSc)
KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
ST 2016
Development Economics (BSc)
KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
WT: 2015/16, 2016/17, 2017/18
Microeconomics II (BSc)
KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt