Curriculum Vitae ¨ nn Dr. Steffen Ku Current Position Assistant Professor Maastricht University, School of Business and Economics

Contact Department of Economics at the School of Business and Economics Maastricht University Tongersestraat 53, 6211 LM Maastricht, Netherlands Phone: +31 43 38 82851 Email: [email protected] WWW: http://sites.google.com/site/steffenkuenn

Professional Career 2014 - 2015

Senior Research Associate and Deputy Director of the Research Area “Evaluation of Labor Market Programs” IZA - Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn

2012 - 2014

Research Associate IZA - Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn

2008 - 2012

Resident Research Affiliate IZA - Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn

2007 - 2008

Student Research Assistant IZA - Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn

2005 - 2006

Student Research Assistant German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), Berlin, Germany

2003 - 2005

Student Research Assistant German Federal Parliament, Berlin, Germany

1999 - 2002

Apprenticeship: Municipal Clerk Chamber of Crafts, Neubrandenburg, Germany

Research Interests Applied Labor Economics Evaluation of Labor Market Policy Microeconometrics

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Curriculum Vitae ¨ nn Dr. Steffen Ku Education 2008 - 2012

PhD in Economics, Grade: summa cum laude University of Potsdam, Germany

2002 - 2008

M.A. Economics Free University Berlin, Germany

2006 - 2007

Undergraduate Studies in Economics Loughborough University, United Kingdom

Publications In Refereed Journals The Return to Labor Market Mobility: An Evaluation of Relocation Assistance for the Unemployed (2017), Journal of Public Economics, 148, 136-151 (with M. Caliendo and R. Mahlstedt) Earnings Exemptions for Unemployed Workers: The Relationship between Marginal Employment, Unemployment Duration and Job Quality (2016), Labour Economics, 42, 177-193 (with M. Caliendo and A. Uhlendorff) Personality Traits and the Evaluation of Start-Up Subsidies (2016), European Economic Review, 86, 87-108 (with M. Caliendo and M. Weißenberger) Getting Back into the Labor Market: The Effects of Start-Up Subsidies for Unemployed Females (2015), Journal of Population Economics, 28 (4), 10051043 (with M. Caliendo) Subsidized Start-Ups out of Unemployment: A Comparison to Regular Business Start-Ups (2015), Small Business Economics, 45(1), 165-190 (with M. Caliendo, J. Hogenacker, F. Wießner) The challenges of linking survey and administrative data (2015), IZA World of Labor, 2015:214. The IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey: A Scientific Use File (2014), IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 3:6 (with P. Arni, M. Caliendo and K. F. Zimmermann) Regional Effect Heterogeneity of Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed (2014), Regional Studies, 48 (6), 1108-1134 (with M. Caliendo)

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Curriculum Vitae ¨ nn Dr. Steffen Ku ¨ Alte Idee, neues Programm: Der Gr¨ undungszuschuss als Nachfolger von Uberbr¨ uckungsgeld und Ich-AG (2012), Journal for Labor Market Research, 45 (2), 99-123 (with M. Caliendo, J. Hogenacker, F. Wießner) Start-up Subsidies for the Unemployed: Long-Term Evidence and Effect Heterogeneity (2011), Journal of Public Economics, 95, 311-331 (with M. Caliendo) Die Nachhaltigkeit von gef¨orderten Existenzgr¨ undungen aus Arbeitslosigkeit: Eine Bilanz nach f¨ unf Jahren (2010), Journal for Labor Market Research, 42 (4), 269-291 (with M. Caliendo, F. Wießner) Monograph Unemployment and Active Labor Market Policy: New Evidence on Start-up Subsidies, Marginal Employment and Programs for Youth Unemployed (2012), URL: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-62718 Discussion Papers Fighting Youth Unemployment: The Effects of Active Labor Market Policies (2011), IZA Discussion Paper 6222 (with M. Caliendo, R. Schmidl) Policy Reports / Policy Papers Evaluation der Programme“Gr¨ undercoaching Deutschland”und“Gr¨ undercoaching Deutschland - Gr¨ undungen aus der Arbeitslosigkeit” (2014), IZA Research Report No. 61 (with M. Caliendo, A. Kritikos, C. Loersch, H. Schr¨oder, H. Sch¨ utz) Der Gr¨ undungszuschuss in Brandenburg: Eine regionale Analyse (2012), IZA Research Report No. 48 (with M. Caliendo, F. Wießner) Gr¨ undungszuschuss f¨ ur Arbeitslose: Bislang solider Nachfolger der fr¨ uheren Programme (2012), IAB - Kurzbericht 2/2012 (with M. Caliendo, J. Hogenacker, F. Wießner) ¨ Ich-AG und Uberbr¨ uckungsgeld: Erfolgsgeschichte mit zu fr¨ uhem Ende (2009), IAB - Kurzbericht 3/2009 (with M. Caliendo, F. Wießner)

Work in Progress Mobility assistance for unemployed workers, job search behavior and labor market outcomes The quality of childcare and labor market outcomes The impact of housing quality on health and labor market outcomes Catching up or lagging behind? The business potential of subsidized start-ups out of unemployment: A long run perspective

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Curriculum Vitae ¨ nn Dr. Steffen Ku Externally Funded Research Projects 2014 - 2015

A Detailed Analysis of the Service Sector in the Federal State MecklenburgWestern Pomerania, funded by the Ministry of Labor, Gender Mainstreaming and Social Affairs of the Federal State Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany

2010 - 2013

Evaluation of Business Coaching for Start-ups Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi), Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (BMAS), KfW, Germany

2009 - 2012

Evaluation of the New Start-up Subsidy Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg, Germany

2008 - 2009

Long-term Effects of Start-up Subsidies in Germany Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg, Germany

Media Coverage S¨ uddeutsche Zeitung (www) MDR Info Radio (www) Wirtschaftswoche, Gr¨ under (www)

Refereeing Journal of Human Resources; European Economic Review; Labour Economics; Regional Studies; Small Business Economics; International Journal of Manpower; Fiscal Studies; Research in Labor Economics; German Economic Review; Journal of Labor Research; Journal of Applied Social Science Studies; Evaluation and Program Planning; Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal; IZA World of Labor

Conference Presentations/Invited Seminars 2016

EALE Conference, Ghent, Belgium ESPE, Berlin, Germany

2015

EALE/SOLE World Meeting, Montr´eal, Canada ZEW, Mannheim, Germany LISER, Luxembourg University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Seminar on Self-employment, Brussels, Belgium

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Curriculum Vitae ¨ nn Dr. Steffen Ku Conference Presentations/Invited Seminars 2014

International Conference on ALMP Evaluation, Barcelona, Spain EALE Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia IZA/CEPR ESSLE Meeting, Buch am Ammersee, Germany Invited: Berlin Network of Labor Market Research (BeNA), Berlin, Germany

2013

CAFE Workshop 2013, Borkop, Denmark 4th IZA Workshop on Entrepreneurship Research, San Francisco, USA Invited: International Workshop on “Young NEETs: How to Avoid a Lost Generation?”, Barcelona, Spain Invited: European Labor Market Strategies under Scrutiny, Bochum, Germany Spring Meeting of Young Economists (SMYE), Aarhus, Denmark

2012

Evaluation of Political Reforms (SFB 884), University of Mannheim, Germany Invited: Economic Colloquium, University of Trier, Germany EALE Conference, Bonn, Germany Royal Economic Society Annual Conference, Cambridge, UK SOLE Annual Meeting, Chicago, USA 1st Potsdam PhD Workshop in Empirical Economics, Potsdam, Germany

2011

33rd Annual Fall Research Conference (APPAM), Washington DC, USA

2010

ESPE Annual Conference, Essen, Germany IZA European Summer School in Labor Economics, Buch am Ammersee, Germany The 2010 Ratio Colloquium for Young Social Scientists, Stockholm, Sweden

2009

XXIV National Conference of Labour Economics (AIEL), Sassari, Italy EALE Conference, Tallinn, Estonia European Meeting of the Econometric Society (ESEM), Barcelona, Spain ESPE Annual Conference, Seville, Spain Entrepreneurship and Growth of Family Firms (CUE), Krakow, Poland SOLE Annual Meeting, Boston, USA IZA/World Bank Workshop, Bonn, Germany 11th ZEW Summer Workshop for Young Economists, Mannheim, Germany

2008

Summer School in Economics and Finance, Empirical Strategies, Madrid (CEMFI), Spain ZEW Summer School in Labor Economics, Mannheim, Germany

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Curriculum Vitae ¨ nn Dr. Steffen Ku Course/Conference Organization 2015

11th IZA Conference on Labor Market Policy Evaluation, Bonn, Germany

2014

3rd IZA@DC Young Scholar Program, Washington DC, USA PhD course on Econometrics, Lecturer: Frank Vella (Georgetown University)

2013

2nd IZA@DC Young Scholar Program, Washington DC, USA PhD course on Econometrics, Lecturer: Frank Vella (Georgetown University)

2012

1st IZA@DC Young Scholar Program, Washington DC, USA PhD course on Econometrics, Lecturer: Frank Vella (Georgetown University)

Teaching Banking, Bachelor Understanding Society, Bachelor Job Performance and the Employment Relationship, Bachelor Economics@Work, Master Research Strategy, Research Master/PhD

Scholarships Scholarship for Doctoral Students IZA - Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn, Germany Undergraduate studies at the Loughborough University European Sokrates/Erasmus - Exchange Program

Additional Skills Software Packages: STATA, MATLAB, EViews, LaTeX Language skills: German - Native English - Fluent Dutch - Advanced

Maastricht, May 18, 2017

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