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Tim Obermeier.

Tim Obermeier

Associate

Expertise: labour economics, family economics

Email:
t.obermeier@lse.ac.uk
tim.obermeier@leicester.ac.uk
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Biography

Dr Tim Obermeier is a lecturer in Economics at the University of Leicester and Associate at the Centre for Economic Performance. Before joining Leicester, Tim was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and completed his PhD at the University of Mannheim in 2019.

Current areas of research include:

  • Inequality in income, consumption and well-being: The role of the within family-distribution and marital behaviour
  • Women's occupational choice after childbirth and implications for gender inequality
  • Firms and inequality: Trends in markup and productivity dispersion in the UK

Publications

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

Journal article
Firms and inequality

We review the existing literature on falling business dynamism and present a new analysis using comprehensive UK firm-level panel data. Since the mid-1990s, there has been a large increase in UK firm-level inequality (es... Read more...

Jan De Loecker, Tim Obermeier and John Van Reenen

17 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

Blog
Why household income doesn't tell the full story on individual wellbeing

The literature on inequality often focuses on household income, but this measure has several limitations for assessing individual wellbeing. Tim Obermeier develops a new collective household model which simultaneously ac... Read more...

Tim Obermeier

11 January 2024

CEP discussion papers
Individual welfare analysis: A tale of consumption, time use and preference heterogeneity

How accurately does household income reflect the well-being of the individuals living within the household? Looking at household income does not take unequal consumption sharing within families, the value of time use (le... Read more...

Tim Obermeier

23 October 2023

CEP discussion papers
Firms and inequality

In the last few decades, dramatic changes have been documented in the US business landscape. These include rising productivity and pay dispersion between firms, higher aggregate markups (of price over variable costs), gr... Read more...

Jan De Loecker, Tim Obermeier and John Van Reenen

09 March 2022

External publications
Firms and inequalities

There have been some dramatic changes in the business landscape in American firms over the last four decades that have been extensively documented by researchers and are the subject of much public debate (e.g. Van Reenen... Read more...

Jan De Loecker, Tim Obermeier and John Van Reenen

03 March 2022

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