CEP | People | Andreas Teichgraeber

Biography

Andreas is a PhD student at LSE. He works as an occasional research assistant at the CEP for Professor John Van Reenen as part of the Programme on Innovation and Diffusion (POID). He holds a BSc in Economics from the University of Mannheim and an MSc in Economics from LSE.

Current areas of research include:

Industrial organisation
Economics of innovation
Productivity and wage growth

Publications

CentrePiece - The magazine of the Centre for Economic Performance

Revving up wages: How rising productivity has benefited car industry workers

Fast productivity growth in the UK car industry led to staff in the sector earning about 37% more than the average manufacturing employee by the 2010s. But Andreas Teichgraeber and Tim Obermeier show that while wages wen... Read more...

Tim Obermeier and Andreas Teichgraeber

20 February 2025

Blog

The productivity boom in the British car industry benefited workers, with a caveat

Productivity growth can play an important role in raising wages. The UK car industry experienced fast productivity growth over the past 40 years, and by the 2010s car workers were earning about 37 per cent more than the ... Read more...

Tim Obermeier and Andreas Teichgraeber

05 November 2024

Blog

What share of the economic pie goes to workers?

Over the last two decades, the proportion of national income going to employees and the self-employed - the labour share - has declined in many advanced economies. This has not happened in the UK, which might seem like g... Read more...

Andreas Teichgraeber

28 October 2024

CEP discussion papers

When trade drives markup divergence: An application to auto markets

When firms sell in multiple markets, estimates of markups from the demand-side will generally diverge from estimates based on the supply-side (e.g. via production functions). The empirical examination of the importance o... Read more...

Agnes Norris Keiller, Tim Obermeier, Andreas Teichgraeber and John Van Reenen

26 July 2024

CEP discussion papers

An engine of (pay) growth? Productivity and wages in the UK auto industry

When labour market competition is imperfect, positive industry (and firm) productivity shocks can be passed through to workers in the form of higher wages. We document how the UK auto industry, following a period of decl... Read more...

Agnes Norris Keiller, Tim Obermeier, Andreas Teichgraeber and John Van Reenen

03 July 2024

CEP discussion papers

A policy toolkit to increase research and innovation in the European Union

What research and innovation (R&I) policies should Europe adopt? The world faces a challenge to rebuild after the pandemic, but also faces the same structural slowdown of productivity growth that occurred in the decades ... Read more...

Andreas Teichgraeber and John Van Reenen

25 February 2022

CEP discussion papers

Have productivity and pay decoupled in the UK?

In the long-run at the macro level, the real pay of workers tends to follow labour productivity. In recent years, however, there have been concerns that this relationship has broken down and that pay has become "decouple... Read more...

Andreas Teichgraeber and John Van Reenen

03 November 2021