I am a Post-Doctoral Researcher in the Group on Economics of Institutions led by Florian Scheuer at the Department of Economics at the University of Zurich.
I study the impact of technological change on the economy and implications for policy. I am particularly interested in how technologies such as automation and artificial intelligence affect the labor market and the distribution of income – and what this implies for the optimal design of redistributive policies.
Department of Economics
University of Zurich
Schönberggasse 1, Room SOF G11
CH-8001 Zurich, Switzerland
Phone: +41 44 634 22 88
Email: uwe [dot] thuemmel [at] uzh [dot] ch
PhD in Economics
Erasmus University Rotterdam, Tinbergen Institute
MPhil in Economics
University of Amsterdam, Tinbergen Institute
MSc in Multidisciplinary Economics
Utrecht University
BSc in Economics
University of Mannheim
Public concern about the distributional consequences of automation is growing. It is feared that the “rise of the robots” is going to disrupt the labor market and will lead to extreme income inequality. These concerns have raised the question how redistributive policy should respond to automation. Some policy makers and opinion leaders have suggested a “tax on robots”. Is this a good idea? This project tries to answer that question. Read more in the Research section.
In order to understand the differential geographical impact of artificial intelligence, this project takes a new approach: it maps the location of people involved in artificial intelligence by combining data from various sources. Read more here.