Christian Schluter

Reader, Economics Division, School of Social Sciences, University of Southampton Research Associate, Centre for Population Change at the University of Southampton Previous Appointment: Lecturer in the Department of Economics, University of Bristol

• The project "Temporary Migration and Economic Development: the Triple-Win Policy Vision applied to North Africa" has been awarded ca. £325K by the ESRC/DFID joint scheme for research on international development(poverty alleviation) (joint with J. Wahba).
• The NORFACE Research Programme on "Migration in Europe – Social, Economic, Cultural and Policy Dynamics" has awarded € 850,000 to the two year project "Understanding Migrants’ Choices". The team of researchers is co-led by J. Wahba and me.

• "Weak convergence to the t-distribution", CQE Discussion Paper No. 21 , October 2011.
• "The Impact of Labour Market Dynamics on the Return-Migration of Immigrants", IZA Discussion Paper No. 5722, May 2011.
• "Estimating Continuous-Time Income Models", Southamption Economics Discussion Paper 1014, July 2010.
• "On the Problem of Inference for Inequality Measures for Heavy-Tailed Distributions", Southamption Economics Discussion Paper 1009, May 2010; the improved version is forthcoming in ECTJ.
• "Illegal Migration, Wages and Remittances- Semi-parametric Estimation of Illegality Effects", Southamption Economics Discussion Paper 0913, Jan 2009.

NEW: "On the Problem of Inference for Inequality Measures for Heavy-Tailed Distributions", The Econometrics Journal, forthcoming.

"Upward Structural Mobility, Exchange Mobility, and Subgroup Consistent Mobility Measurement", Review of Income and Wealth, vol. 57, 1, pp. 1-22, March 2011 (joint with D. Van de gaer).

"Are parents altruistic ? Evidence from Mexico", Journal of Population Economics , vol. 23, Number 3, pp. 933-1433, June 2010 (with J. Wahba).

"Edgeworth Expansions and Normalizing Transforms for Inequality Measures", Journal of Econometrics, vol. 150, issue 1, pp 16-29, May 2009 (with K.J. van Garderen).

"Identifying Multiple Outliers in Heavy-Tailed Distributions with an Application to Market Crashes", Journal of Empirical Finance, vol. 15, 700-713, September 2008 (with M. Trede).

"Local versus Global Assessment of Mobility", International Economic Review, vol. 44, no. 4, 1313 - 1336, November 2003 (with M. Trede).

"The dynamics of child poverty: Britain and Germany compared", Journal of Comparative Family Studies, Summer 2003, 34 (3), 337-353 (with S.P. Jenkins, and G. Wagner).

"Why Are Child Poverty Rates Higher in Britain than in Germany?" , Journal of Human Resources, vol. 38, 441- 465, Spring 2003 (with S.P. Jenkins).

"Tails of Lorenz curves", Journal of Econometrics, vol. 109, Issue 1, 151-166, July 2002 (with M. Trede).

"Statistical inference for inequality and poverty measures with dependent data", International Economic Review, vol. 43, no. 2, 185-200, May 2002 (with M. Trede).

"Welfare measurement and measurement error", Review of Economic Studies , vol. 69, 357 - 378, April 2002 (with A. Chesher).

"Child poverty in Germany: trends and persistence". In: Bradbury, B., Jenkins, S.P., Micklewright, J. (eds.) The Dynamics of Child Poverty in Industrialised Countries, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2001.

"Statistical inference with mobility indices", Economics Letters, vol. 59, 157-162, 1998.

"On the performance of social benefit systems", Economic Journal, vol. 107, 489-502, 1997.

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