Andreas I. Mueller's research focuses on macroeconomics and labor markets with a special interest in Business Cycles, Unemployment, Unemployment Insurance, Job Search, Time Use, and Monetary Policy Research. His research includes studying the effects of unemployment insurance, job search efforts, and the implications of policy changes on employment and wages. By combining theoretical models with empirical data, Mueller aims to provide insights that can inform both academic understanding and practical policymaking in the labor market sphere.

Tackling the issue of long-term unemployment is a long-standing challenge for labor market policy. Prolonged spells of joblessness are associated with worse economic outcomes, including lower job-finding rates, lower re-employment wages and less stable jobs. These concerns are heightened during bad economic times when the incidence of long-term unemployment rises dramatically. Despite the policy-relevance of the issue, the sources of long-term unemployment are still poorly understood. I argue that the long-term unemployed are inherently different individuals in terms of their job search behavior and job finding prospects and evaluate the potential for targeting labor market policies towards those most likely to become long-term unemployed.

Professor Mueller's inaugural lecture is open to the public and followed by a cocktail reception in the Lichthof.

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