Carolin is a former PhD student in Economic Geography. Her research interests lie in labour economics, inequality and innovation. For her PhD project, she uses administrative and survey data from the Office for National Statistics to trace the widening regional income inequality in the UK. Other ongoing research projects look at the effect of innovation on regional labour markets in the UK, France and Germany, and the role of the market for start-ups on US inequality. Her research is funded by an ESRC scholarship. She co-authored a on the geography of innovation with Riccardo Crescenzi, Simona Iammarino, Andrés Rodríguez-Pose and Michael Storper that was commissioned by the World Intellectual Property Organization.
In spring 2020, Carolin spent three months at the Luskin School of Public Policy at the University of California, Los Angeles as a visiting doctoral researcher on the invitation of Professor Michael Storper, also funded by the ESRC. Prior to pursuing her PhD, Carolin worked as a policy analyst at Belmana. Her work focused on policy evaluations, specialising in business support. She holds a BSc in International Economic Studies from Maastricht University and an MSc in Economic History (Research) from the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳.
Thesis title and short abstract:
“Essays on regional labour markets and income inequality”
The thesis explores topics of regional labour markets in the context of wide earnings differences in the UK. The first paper c