Crawford School of Public Policy, College of Asia and the Paci
fic, Australian National University (ANU)
Canberra ACT 2601 | mathias.sinning@anu.edu.au
Personal
• Current position: Associate Professor, ANU Crawford School of Public Policy
• Citizenship: Australia, Germany
• Research Interests: Labor Economics, Public Economics, Policy Evaluation
Qualifications
• Ph.D. in Economics (Dr. rer. oec.), University of Bochum, Germany, 2008
• Masters in Economics (Dipl. rer. pol.), University of Heidelberg, Germany, 2004
Professional appointments
• January 2018 – December 2018: Deputy Director, ANU Tax and Transfer Policy Institute
• January 2017 – Present: Associate Professor, ANU Crawford School of Public Policy
• January 2015 – December 2016: Senior Lecturer, ANU Crawford School of Public Policy
• January 2014 – December 2014: Senior Lecturer, School of Economics, University of
Queensland
• January 2011 – December 2013: Senior Lecturer, ANU Research School of Economics
• June 2008 – December 2010: Research Fellow, ANU Research School of Social Sciences
(RSSS)
Visiting appointments
• January 2019 – Present: Visiting Fellow, National School of Development, China Centre for
Economic Research, Peking University (on leave from ANU)
• September 2012 – January 2013: Visiting Fellow, Office of Population Research, Princeton
University (on leave from ANU)
Publications
A. Refereed journals
• GST Reform in Australia: Implications of Estimating Price Elasticities of Demand for Food,
The Economic Record 94, 239-254, 2018 (with Syed Hasan)
• Behavioral Insights on Business Taxation: Evidence from Two Natural Field Experiments,
Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance 18, 30-49, 2018 (with Nick Biddle and Katja
Fels)
• Unawareness and Selective Disclosure: The Effect of School Quality Information on
Property Prices, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 145, 449-464, 2018 (with
John Haisken-DeNew, Syed Hasan and Nikhil Jha)
• Decomposing the Ins and Outs of Cyclical Unemployment, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and
Statistics 78, 853-876, 2016 (with Ronald Bachmann)
• Locus of Control and Savings, Journal of Banking and Finance 73, 113-130, 2016 (with
Deborah Cobb-Clark and Sonja Kassenboehmer)
• Student Loan Reforms for German Higher Education: Financing Tuition Fees, Education
Economics 22, 569-588, 2014 (with Bruce Chapman)
• Distributional Changes in the Gender Wage Gap, Industrial and Labor Relations Review 67,
335-361, 2014 (with Sonja Kassenboehmer)
• Modeling Income Dynamics for Public Policy Design: An Application to Income Contingent
Student Loans, Economics of Education Review 37, 273-285, 2013 (with Tim Higgins)
• Labor Market Effects of Immigration: Evidence from Neighborhood Data, Review of
International Economics 21, 370-385, 2013 (with Thomas Bauer and Regina Flake)
• Migrant Youths’ Educational Achievement: The Role of Institutions, The ANNALS of the
American Academy of Political and Social Sciences 643, 18-45, 2012 (with Deborah Cobb-
Clark and Steven Stillman)
• Immigration and Status Exchange in Australia and the United States, Research in Social
Stratification and Mobility 30, 49-62, 2012 (with Kate Choi, Marta Tienda and Deborah
Cobb-Clark)
• A Comparative Analysis of the Nativity Wealth Gap, Economic Inquiry 49, 989-1007, 2011
(with Thomas Bauer, Deborah Cobb-Clark and Vincent Hildebrand)
• Neighborhood Diversity and the Appreciation of Native- and Immigrant-Owned Homes,
Regional Science and Urban Economics 41, 214-226, 2011 (with Deborah Cobb-Clark)
• Determinants of Savings and Remittances – Empirical Evidence from Immigrants to
Germany, Review of Economics of the Household 9, 45-67, 2011
• The Savings Behavior of Temporary and Permanent Migrants in Germany, Journal of
Population Economics 24, 421-449, 2011 (with Thomas Bauer)
• Social Deprivation of Immigrants in Germany, Review of Income and Wealth 56, 715-733,
2010 (with John Haisken-DeNew)
• Home-ownership and Economic Performance of Immigrants in Germany, Urban Studies 47,
387-409, 2010
• Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition for Tobit Models, Applied Economics 42, 1569-1575, 2010
(with Thomas Bauer)
• The Impact of Demographic Change on Human Capital Accumulation, Labour Economics 16,
659-668, 2009 (with Michael Fertig and Christoph M. Schmidt)
• Analyzing the Labor Market Activity of Immigrant Families in Germany, Labour Economics
16, 510-520, 2009 (with Leilanie Basilio and Thomas Bauer)
• The Purpose of Remittances: Evidence from Germany, Journal of Economics and Statistics
229, 730-742, 2009 (with Thomas Bauer)
• The Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition for Nonlinear Regression Models, The Stata Journal 8,
480-492, 2008 (with Thomas Bauer and Markus Hahn)
• An Extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition to Non-linear Models, Advances in
Statistical Analysis 92, 197-206, 2008 (with Thomas Bauer)
• Gender Differences in Smoking Behavior, Health Economics 16, 895-909, 2007 (with
Thomas Bauer and Silja Goehlmann)
CV Mathias Sinning – January 2019
B. Books
• The Savings Behavior of Immigrants in Germany, doctoral thesis, University of Bochum,
2008, ISBN 978-3-86788-039-8.
C. Work in progress
• Nudging Businesses to Pay Their Taxes: Does Timing Matter?, IZA Discussion Paper No.
11599, 2018 (with Christian Gillitzer)
D. Book chapters
• The Financial Capacity of German University Graduates to Repay Student Loans, In: Joseph
E. Stiglitz, Martin Guzman (eds.), Contemporary Issues in Microeconomics, Palgrave
MacMillan, 2016
• Why Don’t We Just Give Them the Money? Financing Living Expenses of Students in
Germany, In: Bruce Chapman, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Tim Higgins (eds.), Income Contingent
Loans: Theory, Practice and Prospects, Palgrave MacMillan, 109-124, 2014 (with Barbara
Grave)
E. Book reviews
• The Mobility of Students and the Highly Skilled, by Marcel Gerard and Silke Uebelmesser
(The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachussets, 2014), Economic Record 93, 181-183, 2017
• Migration and the Welfare State, by Assaf Razin, Efraim Sadka and Benjarong Suwankiri
(The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2011), Economic Record 89, 437-439, 2013
F. Commissioned reports
• Scoping Study: State Tax Elasticities and Revenue Bases, Commonwealth Grants
Commission, Canberra, Australia (with Syed Hasan)
• How Much is it Worth? New Estimates of Private Returns to University Education in
Australia, Department of Education, Canberra, Australia
• Where should I live? The Locational Choices of Australians and New Zealanders, Research
Report, Department of Labour, Wellington, New Zealand (with Steven Stillman)
• The Growth of Literacy Skills over the Working Life – Pattern and Determinants,
Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR), Canberra,
Australia (with Chris Ryan)
• Skill Matches to Job Requirements, Research Report, National Centre for Vocational
Education Research (NCVER), Adelaide (with Chris Ryan)
• Job Requirements and Lifelong Learning for Older Workers, Research Report, National
Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), Adelaide (with Chris Ryan)
• Who Works Beyond the ’Standard’ Retirement Age and Why?, Research Report, National
Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), Adelaide (with Chris Ryan)
• Skill (Mis-)Matches and Over-Education of Younger Workers, Research Report, National
Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), Adelaide (with Chris Ryan)
• Differing Skill Requirements Across Countries and Over Time, Research Report, National
Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), Adelaide (with Chris Ryan)
• Senior Australians and the Take-Up of New Technologies, Research Report, National Centre
for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), Adelaide (with Jenny Chesters and Chris Ryan)
• The Returns to Skill Accumulation, Research Report, National Centre for Vocational
Education Research (NCVER), Adelaide (with Jenny Chesters and Chris Ryan)
• Training Requirements of Foreign-Born Workers in Different Countries, Research Report,
National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), Adelaide (with Chris Ryan)
G. Publications in German
• Baf ö G Plus: Deutschlands Hochschulfinanzierung neu denken – Nachgelagerte
Studiengeb ü hren k ö nnen die soziale Schieflage in der Bildungsfinanzierung aufl ö sen
(reform proposal for financing higher education in Germany), RWI Position No. 66, 2015
(with Katja Fels and Christoph Schmidt)
Research grants
• 2018-2019: Asia-Pacific Innovation Program (APIP) Research Development grant, ANU
College of Asia and the Pacific: Encouraging Formal Tax Registration of Micro, Small and
Medium Enterprises in Indonesia, $10,372
• 2016-2018: Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Grant LP160100810: Applying
Behavioral Insights to the Tax System in Australia, $217,000
• 2015-2017: ARC Discovery Grant DP150104247: Understanding Dynamic Aspects of
Economic Inequality, $172,700
• 2011-2016: ARC Linkage Grant LP110200496: Innovative Financing Mechanisms for Higher
Education, $396,686
• 2012-2013: Group of Eight/German Academic Exchange Service: Australia-Germany Joint
Research Cooperation Grant: Innovative Financing Mechanisms for International Migration,
$12,000
• 2009-2011: The German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research Development: The
Economic Integration of Immigrants from Eastern Europe and Second-Generation Migrants
in Israel and Germany, $50,000
• 2010-2011: Group of Eight/German Academic Exchange Service: Australia-Germany Joint
Research Cooperation Grant: Income Contingent Loans for Higher Education in Germany,
$12,000
• 2009-2010: Group of Eight/German Academic Exchange Service: Australia-Germany Joint
Research Cooperation Grant: Effects of Ethnic Residential Segregation on Labor Market
Outcomes of Immigrants, $12,000
Memberships
• American Economic Association (AEA)
• Econometric Society
• Royal Economic Society (RES)
Affiliations
• National School of Development, China Centre for Economic Research, Peking University
• Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) Bonn
• Rheinisch-Westfaelisches Institut fuer Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI) Essen
• Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), University College London
Awards
• 2009: IDEAS/Repec: Top 100 young economist worldwide
Student supervision
Ph.D. students
• 2018 – Present: Leana Ugrinovska, Chair of supervisory panel
• 2018 – Present: Chris Wokker, Second supervisor
• 2017 – Present: Colette Einfeld, Second supervisor
• 2017 – Present: Christopher Hoy, Second supervisor
• 2016-2018: Giang Nguyen: Essays on Economic Development in Southeast Asia, First
supervisor/Chair of supervisory panel
• 2015 – Present: Shane Johnson, Second supervisor
• 2016-2017: Samuel Weldeegzie, First supervisor
• 2012-2014: Syed Hasan: Essays in Development and Applied Microeconomics, Second
supervisor
• 2009-2011: Huong Le: Essays on Development Economics, Case Study of Vietnam, Chair of
supervisory panel
Honours students
• 2014: Sarah Brown (University of Queensland): Cognitive Development and Household Size
– A Study of Australia’s Indigenous Children
• 2013: James Booth (ANU): Does Censorship Affect the Diffusion of Communication
Technology?
• 2013: David Ignatius-Holoub (ANU): The Economic Effects of Immigration in Australia:
Evidence from Regional Panel Data
• 2012: Yanjing Ke (ANU): Attitudes Towards Immigration Across Different Groups Within
Australia
Teaching experience
• Semester 2, 2018: Empirical Public Finance, College of Asia and the Pacific, Crawford School
of Public Policy, ANU
• Semester 2, 2017: Empirical Public Finance, College of Asia and the Pacific, Crawford School
of Public Policy, ANU
• Semester 2, 2016: Empirical Public Finance, College of Asia and the Pacific, Crawford School
of Public Policy, ANU
• Semester 1, 2016: Research Methods for Environmental Management, College of Asia and
the Pacific, Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU
• Semester 2, 2015: Empirical Public Finance, College of Asia and the Pacific, Crawford School
of Public Policy, ANU
• Semester 2, 2014: Labor Economics, Faculty of Business, Economics and Law, School of
Economics, University of Queensland
• Semester 2, 2014: Public Finance, Faculty of Business, Economics and Law, School of
Economics, University of Queensland
• Semester 2, 2013: Econometric Modeling, College of Business and Economics, Research
School of Economics, ANU
• Semester 2, 2013: Development, Poverty and Famine, College of Business and Economics,
Research School of Economics, ANU
• Semester 1, 2012: Investment Decisions and Financial Systems, College of Business and
Economics, Research School of Economics, ANU
• Semester 1, 2012: Econometric Methods, College of Business and Economics, Research
School of Economics, ANU
• Semester 1, 2011: Econometric Methods, College of Business and Economics, Research
School of Economics, ANU
• Semester 1, 2010: Econometric Methods, College of Business and Economics, Research
School of Economics, ANU
• Semester 1, 2008: Migration Economics, Department of Economics, University of Bochum
Executive education
• Behavioral Economics: Concepts, Tools and Applications, 2-3 May 2018, Executive
Education Program, Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU
• Public Finance in the Australian Context, 20 November 2017, Executive Training Program
for the Government of Papua, Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU
• Executive Training Program on Strengthening Public Policy Making for Senior Staff of the
Ministry of Finance in Sri Lanka, 21-22 March 2017: Public Policy Evaluation and
Implementation, Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU
• Australia’s Tax System, 8 December 2016, Tsinghua/PBCSF Program, Crawford School of
Public Policy, ANU
• The Economics of Labor Markets, 29-30 June, Executive Education Program, Crawford
School of Public Policy, ANU
Referee reports
Journals
American Economic Review Applied Economics Applied Economics Quarterly Asia and the
Pacific Policy Studies Australian Economic Review Australian Journal of Labour Economics
Canadian Journal of Economics Demography The Economic Journal Economic Record
Economics of Education Review Economics Letters Education Economics Empirical Economics
Environment and Planning A European Economic Review European Journal of Population
German Economic Review International Economics and Economic Policy International
Migration International Migration Review Journal of Applied Econometrics Journal of Asian
Economics Journal of Comparative Economics Journal of Development Studies Journal of
Economic Inequality Journal of Human Resources Journal of Labor Economics Journal of
Population Economics Journal of Regional Sciences Labour Economics The Manchester School
Population and Environment Regional Science and Urban Economics Review of Development
Economics Review of Economics and Statistics Review of Economics of the Household Review
of Income and Wealth Review of International Economics Review of Labour Economics and
Industrial Relations Singapore Economic Review Scottish Journal of Political Economy Social
Forces Social Science and Medicine Urban Studies World Development
Institutions
Australian Research Council (ARC) Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Germany) Fonds
National de la Recherche (Luxembourg) International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie)
Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (New Zealand)
Consultancies
Commonwealth Grants Commission (Australia) Department of Education (Australia)
Department of Labor (New Zealand) National Centre for Vocational Education Research
(Australia) World Bank Group
Research visits
• IZA, Bonn/Germany, 2017 (1 Week)
• RWI, Essen/Germany, 2017 (1 Week)
• Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, Melbourne/Australia, 2015
(1 Week)
• RWI, Essen/Germany, 2015 (2 Weeks)
• The World Bank Group, Washington, DC/USA, 2014 (1 Week)
• Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, Melbourne/Australia, 2013
(1 Week)
• RWI, Essen/Germany, 2013 (2 Weeks)
• La Folette School of Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison,
Wisconsin/USA, 2012 (1 Week)
• The World Bank Group, Washington, DC/USA, 2012 (1 Week)
• RWI, Essen/Germany, 2012 (2 Weeks)
• Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, Melbourne/Australia, 2012
(1 Week)
• RWI, Essen/Germany, 2011 (1 Month)
• Office of Population Research, Princeton University, Princeton/USA, 2011 (2 Weeks)
• Motu Economic and Public Policy Research, Wellington/New Zealand, 2011 (1 Week)
• Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, Melbourne/Australia, 2011
(1 Week)
• Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, Melbourne/Australia, 2010
(1 Week)
• RWI, Essen/Germany, 2010 (1 Month)
• RWI, Essen/Germany, 2009 (2 Months)
• School of Economics and Finance, Queensland University of Technology (QUT),
Brisbane/Australia, 2008 (1 Week)
• Research School of Social Sciences (RSSS), Australian National University,
Canberra/Australia, 2006 (1 Month)
Organized conferences, workshops and seminars
• 2018: Tax and Transfer Policy Institute Conference on Behavioral Economics and Public
Policy (TTPI-BEPP), ANU Crawford School of Public Policy, Canberra/Australia
• 2015 – 2018: Tax and Transfer Policy Institute (TTPI) Seminar, ANU Crawford School of
Public Policy, Canberra/Australia
• 2016: Labour Econometrics Workshop (LEW), ANU Crawford School of Public Policy,
Canberra/Australia
• 2016: ANU-DIBP Mobility Symposium, ANU Crawford School of Public Policy,
Canberra/Australia
• 2014: RWI Research Network Conference: Economics of Education, Berlin/Germany
• 2013: ANU-DPU Conference on Education and Labor Markets, Dhurakij Pundit University
(DPU), Bangkok/Thailand
• 2012: Workshop on Taxing the Brain Drain, ANU Crawford School of Public Policy,
Canberra/Australia
• 2011: General Seminar, ANU Research School of Economics, Canberra/Australia
• 2004 – 2007: RWI Research Seminar, Essen/Germany
• 2005: RWI-Conference on Financing Higher Education, Essen/Germany
Conferences, workshops and seminars
• Nudging Businesses to Pay Their Taxes: Does Timing Matter?, Asian and Australasian
Society of Labour Economics (AASLE), Seoul/China, December 2018
• Estimating Quantiles of the Distribution of Treatment Effects, Seminar, Department of
Economics, Korea University, Seoul/China, December 2018
• Estimating Quantiles of the Distribution of Treatment Effects, Seminar, National School of
Development, Peking University, Beijing/China, November 2018
• Nudging Businesses to Pay Their Taxes: Does Timing Matter?, Conference of the
Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM), Washington, DC/USA,
November 2018
• Nudging Businesses to Pay Their Taxes: Does Timing Matter?, Seminar, La Folette School of
Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison/USA, November 2018
• Estimating Quantiles of the Distribution of Treatment Effects, Seminar, Vancouver School
of Economics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver/Canada, October 2018
• Collateral Damage: What we Miss When we Focus on the Average Effect of a Policy
Intervention, Seminar, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Canberra/Australia,
October 2018
• Collateral Damage: What we Miss When we Focus on the Average Effect of a Policy
Intervention, Seminar, Department of Social Services, Canberra/Australia, October 2018
• Collateral Damage: What we Miss When we Focus on the Average Effect of a Policy
Intervention, Seminar, Department of Industry, Innovation and Science,
Canberra/Australia, October 2018
• Collateral Damage: What we Miss When we Focus on the Average Effect of a Policy
Intervention, Seminar, Parliamentary Budget Office, Canberra/Australia, October 2018
• Collateral Damage: What we Miss When we Focus on the Average Effect of a Policy
Intervention, Seminar, Australian Taxation Office, Canberra/Australia, October 2018
• Public Policy Evaluation: Beyond the Average, Seminar, Crawford School of Public Policy,
ANU, Canberra/Australia, September 2017
• GST Reform in Australia: Implications of Estimating Price Elasticities of Demand for Food,
Federal Relations and Tax Reform Workshop, University of Adelaide, Adelaide/Australia,
August 2017
• GST Reform in Australia: Implications of Estimating Price Elasticities of Demand for Food,
Annual Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF), Tokyo/Japan, August
2017
• GST Reform in Australia: Implications of Estimating Price Elasticities of Demand for Food,
Seminar, Commonwealth Treasury, Canberra/Australia, July 2017
• Unawareness and Selective Disclosure: The Effect of School Quality Information on
Property Prices, IZA Bonn/Germany, May 2017
• Behavioral Insights on Business Taxation: Evidence from Two Natural Field Experiments,
5th Annual Workshop of the Tax Administration Research Centre (TARC), Exeter/UK, April
2017
• A Comparative Analysis of Distributional Changes in Household Wealth, Longitudinal Data
Conference, National Centre for Longitudinal Data, Department of Social Services,
Canberra/Australia, October 2016
• Student Loan Reforms in Germany, Tongji Higher Education Internationalization Forum,
Higher Education Student Finance Workshop, Tongji University, Shanghai/China, October
2016
• GST Reform in Australia: Implications of Estimating Price Elasticities of Demand for Food,
Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU,
Canberra/Australia, September 2016
• GST Reform in Australia: Implications of Estimating Price Elasticities of Demand for Food,
ANU Centre for Social Research and Methods, Canberra/Australia, July 2016
• GST Reform in Australia: Implications of Estimating Price Elasticities of Demand for Food,
Arndt-Corden Department of Economics, Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU, Trade and
Development Seminar, Canberra/Australia, July 2016
• Unawareness and Selective Disclosure: The Effect of School Quality Information on
Property Prices, Australian Conference of the Economists (ACE), Adelaide/Australia, July
2016
• Unawareness and Selective Disclosure: The Effect of School Quality Information on
Property Prices, Seminar, Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU, Canberra/Australia, May
2016
• Unawareness and Selective Disclosure: The Effect of School Quality Information on
Property Prices, Seminar, National Centre for Social and Economic Modeling (NATSEM),
University of Canberra, Canberra/Australia, November 2015
• Impact Evaluation of Tax Reforms, Seminar, Commonwealth Treasury, Canberra/Australia,
November 2015
• Modeling Income Dynamics for Public Policy Design: An Application to Income Contingent
Student Loans, Gender Tax Conference, Tax and Transfer Policy Institute,
Australia/Canberra, November 2015
• Detailed Decomposition Analysis for Nonlinear Regression Models, IZA Brown Bag Seminar,
IZA, Bonn/Germany, May 2015
• The Returns to Language Skills in the US Labor Market, ANU-DPU Conference on the Labor
Market, Migration and Ageing, Dhurakij Pundit University (DPU), Bangkok/Thailand,
February 2015
• The Role of Language Skills in the German Labor Market, European Society for Population
Economics (ESPE), Braga/Portugal, June 2014
• Modeling Income Dynamics for Public Policy Design: An Application to Income Contingent
Student Loans, International Workshop on Income Contingent Loans, Université Paris 1
Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris/France, June 2014
• Student Loan Reforms for German Higher Education: Financing Living Expenses, RWI
Research Network Conference: Economics of Education, Berlin/Germany, June 2014
• The Returns to Language Skills in the US Labor Market, World Congress of the International
Economic Association (IEA), Dead Sea/Jordan, June 2014
• Student Loan Reforms for German Higher Education: Financing Living Expenses, World
Congress of the International Economic Association (IEA), Dead Sea/Jordan, June 2014
• Modeling Income Dynamics for Public Policy Design: An Application to Income Contingent
Student Loans, Society of Labor Economists (SOLE), Washington, DC/ USA, May 2014
• The Returns to Language Skills in the US Labor Market, Seminar, School of Economics, La
Trobe University, Melbourne/Australia, November 2013
• Modeling Income Dynamics for Public Policy Design: An Application to Income Contingent
Student Loans, Asia-Pacific Conference on Economic Dynamics, University of Economics
and Law (UEL), Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City/Vietnam, November 2013
• The Role of Language Skills in the German Labor Market, University of
Melbourne/Princeton University Workshop ``International Perspectives on Immigration'',
University of Melbourne, Melbourne/Australia, July 2013
• The Returns to Language Skills in the US Labor Market, Seminar, National Centre for Social
and Economic Modelling (NATSEM), University of Canberra, Canberra/Australia, May 2013
• The Role of Language Skills in the German Labor Market, Brown Bag Seminar, German
Institute for Economic Research (DIW), Berlin/Germany, May 2013
• The Role of Language Skills in the German Labor Market, Workshop on the Economics of
Cultural Diversity, Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam/The Netherlands, April 2013
• The Returns to Language Skills in the US Labor Market, Royal Economic Society (RES), Royal
Holloway, University of London, London/UK, April 2013
• Modeling Income Dynamics for Public Policy Design: An Application to Income Contingent
Student Loans, ANU-DPU Conference on Education and Labor Market Outcomes, Dhurakij
Pundit University (DPU), Bangkok/Thailand, March 2013
• Financing Mechanisms for Tuition Fees and Living Expenses in Germany, International
Economics Association Roundtable on Income Contingent Loans for Public Policy, Dhurakij
Pundit University (DPU), Bangkok/Thailand, March 2013
• The Returns to Language Skills in the US Labor Market, La Folette School of Public Affairs,
University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison/USA, December 2012
• The Returns to Language Skills in the US Labor Market, Global Migration Seminar, Office of
Population Research, Princeton University, Princeton/USA, October 2012
• There Goes the Neighborhood? People's Attitudes and the Effects of Immigration to
Australia, Economics of Trade and Development Seminar, ANU Crawford School of Public
Policy, Canberra/Australia, August 2012
• Decomposing the Ins and Outs of Cyclical Unemployment, National Institute of Labour
Studies (NILS), Flinders University, Adelaide/Australia, July 2012
• There Goes the Neighborhood? People's Attitudes and the Effects of Immigration to
Australia, International Workshop on Economic Impacts of Immigration and Population
Diversity, Hamilton/New Zealand, April 2012
• Do European Countries Need the Australian Point System to Regulate Immigration?,
Seminar, ANU Centre for European Studies, Canberra/Australia, November 2011
• Decomposition Analysis for Limited Dependent Variable Models, Research Seminar, RWI,
Essen/Germany, September 2011
• There Goes the Neighborhood? People's Attitudes and the Effects of Immigration to
Australia, Research Seminar, MOTU, Wellington/New Zealand, August 2011
• There Goes the Neighborhood? People's Attitudes and the Effects of Immigration to
Australia, Research Seminar, Otago University, Dunedin/New Zealand, August 2011
• There Goes the Neighborhood? People's Attitudes and the Effects of Immigration to
Australia, Research Seminar, QUT, Brisbane/Australia, July 2011
• There Goes the Neighborhood? People's Attitudes and the Effects of Immigration to
Australia, European Society for Population Economics (ESPE), Hangzhou/China, June 2011
• Labor Market Effects of Immigration: Evidence from Neighborhood Data, Immigration
Workshop, University of Melbourne, Melbourne/Australia, November 2010
• Distributional Changes in the Gender Wage Gap, Research Seminar, University of
Wollongong, Wollongong/Australia, October 2010
• Distributional Changes in the Gender Wage Gap, European Association of Labour
Economists (EALE)/Society of Labor Economists (SOLE), London/UK, June 2010
• Distributional Changes in the Gender Wage Gap, European Society for Population
Economics (ESPE), Essen/Germany, June 2010
• Neighborhood Diversity and the Appreciation of Native- and Immigrant-Owned Homes,
• Workshop, Monash University, Melbourne/Australia, December 2009
• Decomposing the Ins and Outs of Cyclical Unemployment, ANU Showcase, ANU,
• Canberra/Australia, November 2009
• There Goes the Neighborhood? People's Attitudes and the Effects of Immigration to
Australia, Research Seminar, University of Melbourne, Melbourne/Australia, September
2009
• There Goes the Neighborhood? People's Attitudes and the Effects of Immigration to
Australia, HILDA Survey Research Conference, Melbourne Institute, Melbourne/Australia,
July 2009
• There Goes the Neighborhood? People's Attitudes and the Effects of Immigration to
Australia, Econometric Society Australasian Meeting (ESAM), ANU, Canberra/Australia, July
2009
• Neighborhood Diversity and the Appreciation of Native- and Immigrant-Owned Homes,
European Society for Population Economics (ESPE), Sevilla/Spain, June 2009
• Neighborhood Diversity and the Appreciation of Native- and Immigrant-Owned Homes,
RWI Brown Bag Seminar, RWI, Essen/Germany, June 2009
• Determinants of Savings and Remittances – Empirical Evidence from Immigrants to
Germany, CReAM Conference on the Economics of Immigration, University of Vancouver,
Vancouver/Canada, May 2009
• Analyzing the Labor Market Activity of Immigrant Families in Germany, Annual Meetings of
the Society of Labor Economists (SOLE), Boston/USA, May 2009
• Analyzing the Labor Market Activity of Immigrant Families in Germany, Research Seminar,
RSSS, ANU, Canberra/Australia, November 2008
• Social Deprivation of Immigrants in Germany, Research Seminar, QUT, Brisbane/Australia,
October 2008
• Wealth and Asset Holdings of Immigrants in Germany, Econometric Society Australasian
Meeting (ESAM), Wellington/New Zealand, July 2008
• Determinants of Savings and Remittances – Empirical Evidence from Immigrants to
Germany, European Association of Labor Economists (EALE), University of Oslo,
Oslo/Norway, September 2007
• Determinants of Savings and Remittances – Empirical Evidence from Immigrants to
Germany, European Society for Population Economics (ESPE), University of Chicago,
Chicago/USA, June 2007
• Determinants of Savings and Remittances – Empirical Evidence from Immigrants to
Germany, IZA/World Bank Conference on Employment and Development, Bonn/Germany,
CV Mathias Sinning – January 2019
June 2007
• Social Deprivation of Immigrants in Germany, Research Seminar, University of Duisburg-
Essen, Essen/Germany, April 2007
• Determinants of Savings and Remittances – Empirical Evidence from Immigrants to
Germany, Royal Economic Society (RES), Warwick University, Warwick/UK, April 2007
• Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition for Linear and Non-linear Regression Models, German Stata
Users Group Meeting, RWI, Essen/Germany, April 2007
• Determinants of Savings and Remittances – Empirical Evidence from Immigrants to
Germany, Ruhr Graduate School Doctoral Conference in Economics, University of
Dortmund, Dortmund/Germany, February 2007
• Determinants of Savings and Remittances – Empirical Evidence from Immigrants to
Germany, Research Seminar, QUT, Brisbane/Australia, December 2006
• A Comparative Analysis of the Nativity Wealth Gap, Immigration Workshop, ANU,
Canberra/Australia, November 2006
• Home-ownership and Economic Performance of Immigrants in Germany, RWI Brown Bag
Seminar, RWI, Essen/Germany, October 2006
• Home-ownership and Economic Performance of Immigrants in Germany, European
Economic Association (EEA/ESEM), University of Vienna, Vienna/Austria, August 2006
• Gender Differences in Smoking Behavior, SOEP User Conference, WZB, Berlin/Germany,
July 2006
• Home-ownership and Economic Performance of Immigrants in Germany, European Society
for Population Economics (ESPE), Verona/Italy, June 2006
• Home-ownership and Economic Performance of Immigrants in Germany, CReAM
Conference on the Economics of Immigration, UCL, London/UK, March 2006
• The Savings Behavior of Temporary and Permanent Migrants in Germany, Research
Seminar, University of Bochum, Bochum/Germany, January 2006
• Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition for Tobit Models, RWI Brown Bag Seminar, RWI,
Essen/Germany, December 2005
• The Savings Behavior of Temporary and Permanent Migrants in Germany, Research
Seminar, University of Hamburg, Hamburg/Germany, November 2005
• Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition for Tobit Models, Workshop: Gender in the Workplace
Danish National Institute of Social Research, Copenhagen/Denmark, November 2005
• The Savings Behavior of Temporary and Permanent Migrants in Germany, 10th
International Metropolis Conference, Toronto/Canada, October 2005
• The Savings Behavior of Temporary and Permanent Migrants in Germany, Verein fuer
Socialpolitik, University of Bonn, Bonn/Germany, September 2005
• The Savings Behavior of Temporary and Permanent Migrants in Germany, European
Society for Population Economics (ESPE), Paris/France, June 2005
• The Savings Behavior of Temporary and Permanent Migrants in Germany, RWI Brown Bag
Seminar, RWI, Essen/Germany, June 2005
• SOEPMENU – A Menu Driven Stata/SE Interface for Accessing the German Socio-Economic
Panel (SOEP), International Association of Social Science Information Service and
Technology (IASSIST) and International Federation of Data Organisations (IFDO),
Edinburgh/UK, May 2005
• The Savings Behavior of Temporary and Permanent Migrants in Germany, IZA – European
Summer School in Labor Economics, Buch am Ammersee/Germany, April 2005
