Ludo  Visschers

Bio

Ludo Visschers earned his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, following his undergraduate studies at the University of Maastricht. Before returning to UC3M, he was a full professor at the University of Edinburgh. He has also held positions as an assistant professor at UC3M and Simon Fraser University in Canada. Most of his research interests lie in the broad area of Macro-Labor, where he focuses on modeling and measuring the frictions workers encounter when searching for (better) jobs, as well as the policies to improve labor market outcomes in the face of these frictions. Ludo is a research fellow with CESifo and IZA, a research affiliate with the Stone Centre on Wealth Concentration, Inequality, and the Economy at UCL, and an affiliate of the Edinburgh Futures Institute.

Selected Publications

- Unemployment and Endogenous Reallocation over the Business Cycle” (with Carlos Carrillo-Tudela), Econometrica, 2023

- Search and Reallocation in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from the UK (with Carrillo-Tudela, Comunello, Clymo, Jäckle and Zentler-Munro), Labour Economics, 2023

- “Competing with Asking Prices” (with Ben Lester and Ronald Wolthoff, 2017, Theoretical Economics

- “Directed Search over the Lifecycle” (with Guido Menzio and Irina A. Telyukova), Review of Economic Dynamics, 2016

-  "Unemployment Risk and Wage Differentials", with Roberto Pinheiro, Journal of Economic Theory, 2015, 157, pp. 397-424

Recent Work

- Cyclical Earnings, Career and Employment Transitions (with Carlos Carrillo-Tudela and David Wiczer)

- Family Labor Market Decisions and Statistical Gender Discrimination," (with David Cuberes, Sevi Rodriguez Mora and Marc Teignier)

- Workers' Task and Employer Mobility over the Business Cycle (with Carlos Carrillo-Tudela and Fraser Summerfield)

- Sectoral Labour Flow Accounting: A Matching Function Approach, with Carlos Carrillo-Tudela, Alex Clymo, Camila Comunello and David Zentler-Munro

- Dual Labor Markets, Unemployment and Career Mobility, with Chris Busch, Ismael Gálvez-Iniesta, Eugenia González-Aguado