Curriculum Vitae
Basics
| Name | Felix Degenhardt |
| Title | Research Scientist & Economist |
| Employer | University of Potsdam |
| Summary | I am a labor economist conducting empirical research on labor market impacts of platform technologies, with focus on refugee labor market integration and gig economy participation. I have expertise in causal inference and quasi-experimental methods. I expect to complete my Ph.D. in Economics in 2025. |
Work
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2021 - present Potsdam, Germany
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2023 - present Berlin, Germany
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2019 - 2020 Berlin, Germany
Education
Publications
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under review Is the Gig Economy a Stepping Stone for Refugees? Evidence from Administrative Data
Co-authored with J. Nimczik
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under review Compensating Wage Differentials and the Health Cost of Job Strain
Co-authored with A. Ahammer & M. Caliendo
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working paper
Skills
| Research Methods | |
| Causal inference (DiD, RDD, event studies, IV) | |
| Quasi-experimental design | |
| Panel data methods | |
| Labor market analysis |
| Programming & Data | |
| Python (pandas, scikit-learn, statsmodels) | |
| R (tidyverse, fixest) | |
| Stata | |
| SQL | |
| Git | |
| LaTeX | |
| Excel | |
| LLMs for text classification |
| Data Infrastructure | |
| API integration | |
| Workflow automation | |
| Dashboard development (Tableau, Google Data Studio) |
| Domain Expertise | |
| Labor economics | |
| Technological change and future of work | |
| Migration and refugee integration | |
| Platform technologies and gig economy | |
| Health economics | |
| Policy evaluation |