Simon Trenkle

Simon Trenkle serves as an Acting Professor of Applied Microeconomics at the University of Bonn's Faculty of Economics, Department of Economics, for Spring Semester 2025. He concurrently holds a part-time Senior Researcher position at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) and maintains affiliations with the Institute for Applied Microeconomics and the Collaborative Research Center TR 224 (CRC TR 224) between Bonn and Mannheim universities.

His research centers on labor market policies within frictional economies, examining how institutions like unemployment insurance systems interact with retirement policies to affect labor market outcomes and inequality. He investigates job displacement consequences, earnings dynamics, and worker search behavior during unemployment, employing microeconometric methods with German and Dutch survey data.

Recent publications reveal consistent focus on institutional interactions in labor markets, particularly unemployment insurance design and caseworker effects. His work spans earnings responses to taxation, gender disparities in job loss impacts, and pandemic-era job search behavior, demonstrating methodological rigor through administrative data analysis and field experiments.

Trenkle contributes to the CRC TR 224 research consortium focused on market imperfections and optimal market design, collaborating with economists across Bonn and Mannheim institutions to address structural labor market challenges.