Dr. Thilo Kroeger

KCG External Research Fellow
Postdoc
EKF Denmark’s Export Credit Agendy
Copenhagen University
Email: tkr@ekf.dk

Research Interests:

  • International Economics
  • Labour Economics
  • Development Economics

Servitization, Inequality, and Wages

18th November 2021
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Authors: Dominik Boddin, Thilo Kroeger (Labour Economics, forthcoming, 102011)

This paper studies the effect of servitization, i.e., within-establishment changes in the labor force composition towards higher shares of workers with service occupations, on within-establishment wage inequality. We identify servitization as being a main driver of increasing within-establishment wage inequality. Servitization accounts for roughly 7% of the observed increase in the within-establishment wage inequality in manufacturing industries between 1994 and 2017[...]

Thilo Kroeger to Present at the Midwest International Economics Meeting and at Yale University

11th October 2019
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KCG Fellow Thilo Kroeger will present joint research at the Midwest Economic Theory and International Trade Conference at Washington University in St. Louis on October 13. The Conference was established in 1981 with the goal to foster and encourage research in international trade. Bi-annually around 50 papers on topics in international trade are presented at the Conference. Thilo Kroeger will present his joint work with Prof. Holger Görg, Ph.D., Prof. Horst Raff, Ph.D. and Frauke Steglich[...]

Thilo Kroeger Presented at the Workshop on Labour Economics in Trier

9th May 2019
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The Trier Workshop on Labour Economics, which took place on April 12-13, 2019, aimed to “facilitate the networking of young scientists and to promote the exchange of research ideas and results across a range of fields, including labour economics and personnel economics, health economics, education economics, demography and migration” (IAAEG, 2019). It is organized by the Institute for Labour Law and Industrial Relations in the European Union (IAAEU) and the Chair of Personnel Economics at the University of Trier[…]

KCG Fellows Presented Research at the European Trade Study Group Conference in Warsaw

4th October 2018
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KCG researchers Dr. Julian Hinz and Thilo Kroeger joined the 20th Annual Conference of the European Trade Study Group on September 13-15, 2018 in Warsaw, Poland. The conference is as of now the largest annual conference on international trade in the world. It provides an ideal platform for trade scholars to present their up-to-date research results and progress and to exchange knowledge and insights with other experts in the field.[...]

KCG’s PhD students participated in a week-long seminar on “International Trade: Monopolistic Competition and Gravity”

11th January 2018
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In the second week of December 2017 Professor Dennis Novy from the University of Warwick, UK, visited the Kiel Institute and taught an advanced course on “International Trade: Monopolistic Competition and Gravity”. KCG’s PhD researchers Thilo Kroeger and Frauke Steglich participated in this course, which was part of the Kiel Institute’s Advanced Studies Program in International Economic Policy Research (ASP)[…]

KCG members presented the KCG at the European Researchers’ Night in the Kiel Region

5th October 2017
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KCG PhD Researchers Guli-Sanam Karimova, Thilo Kroeger, Finn Ole Semrau, and Frauke Steglich and KCG Deputy Coordinator Cecilia Hornok presented the KCG on September 29, 2017 at the European Researchers' Night in Plön. The European Researchers' Night is aimed at bringing together individuals, entrepreneurs, and scientists to communicate research to the broader public and is open to everyone interested in science.[…]

Thilo Kroeger Joined the KCG

3rd November 2016
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Thilo Kroeger joined the Kiel Centre for Globalization in October 2016 as PhD Researcher. Previously, he obtained a double Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Mannheim and Stockholm University specialising in Industrial Organization, particularly Competition Economics, and International Economics. Having completed his Bachelor studies at Kiel University with a stay abroad at the University of Glasgow he returned in fall 2016 to participate in the doctoral programme Quantitative Economics.[…]