Marco Caliendo

Research Fellow and Associated Member

University of Potsdam

caliendo@uni-potsdam.de

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Marco Caliendo is Professor of Empirical Economics at the University of Potsdam. He studied economics at the University of Manchester and the Goethe-University of Frankfurt where he also received his PhD in April 2005. From January 2005 until July 2007 he worked for the DIW in Berlin as a Senior Research Associate in the Public Economics Department.

His current research interests include the evaluation of labor market programs, job search and unemployment dynamics, self-employment/entrepreneurship, the influence of personality traits on economic outcomes, and applied microeconometrics. His work has been published in journals such as Review of Economics and Statistics, European Economic Review, Journal of Human Resources, Research Policy, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Population Economics, Journal of Economic Psychology and Small Business Economics.

He joined IZA as a Senior Research Associate in August 2007 and served as Deputy Program Director for the IZA research area "Evaluation of Labor Market Programs" until January 2009. From February 2009 until September 2011 he served as Director of Research at IZA. From 2011-2023 Marco Caliendo acted as Program Coordinator of IZA’s research area “Evaluation of Labor Market Programs”. He continues to work closely with IZA's local team as an Associated Member.

You can access most of his papers also on RePEC at http://ideas.repec.org/e/pca21.html.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4790

Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed: Long-Term Evidence and Effect Heterogeneity

Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (3-4), 311-331

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4750

Locus of Control and Job Search Strategies

Marco Caliendo, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Arne Uhlendorff

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 97(1), 88-103, Supplementary Appendix available

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4670

Benefit Duration, Unemployment Duration and Job Match Quality: A Regression-Discontinuity Approach

Marco Caliendo, Konstantinos Tatsiramos, Arne Uhlendorff

published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2013, 28 (4), 604-627

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4665

Income Support Systems, Labor Market Policies and Labor Supply: The German Experience

Marco Caliendo

substantially revised and extended version available as IZA DP No. 6810

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4661

"I Want to, But I Also Need to": Start-Ups Resulting from Opportunity and Necessity

Marco Caliendo, Alexander S. Kritikos

published in: Erik Lehmann and M. Keilbach, M. (eds.), From Industrial Organization to Entrepreneurship: A Tribute to David B. Audretsch, Springer, New York, 2019, 247-265

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3900

Self-Employment Dynamics, State Dependence and Cross-Mobility Patterns

Marco Caliendo, Arne Uhlendorff

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3880

Die Nachhaltigkeit von geförderten Existenzgründungen aus Arbeitslosigkeit: Eine Bilanz nach fünf Jahren

Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn, Frank Wießner

published in: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung / Journal for Labour Market Research, 2010, 42(4), 269-291

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3825

The Effect of Active Labor Market Programs on Not-Yet Treated Unemployed Individuals

Gerard J. van den Berg, Annette Bergemann, Marco Caliendo

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7(2-3), 606-616

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3755