Jan Knuf



Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Economics
University College London
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Welcome to my website! I am a PhD student in Economics at UCL and a Research Associate at CReAM and RFBerlin. I hold a BSc in Economics from University of Mannheim, and a MSc from University of Bonn. Prior to my PhD, I worked as a predoc at Chicago Booth and Yale SOM.

I study topics in labor economics and international trade with a particular focus on wage bargaining, coworker complementarity, the labor market effects of deglobalization, and sources of export growth.

I am visiting Opportunity Insights at Harvard from September 2025 until January 2026.

Work in Progress

Competitiveness and Trade Composition: The Diverging Export Paths of Germany and the US in the 21st century
With Christian Dustmann (UCL, RFBerlin), Bernd Fitzenberger (IAB, FAU), and Alexandra Spitz-Oener (Humboldt, RFBerlin)

Brexit and the Labor Market
with Matt Nibloe (UCL, IFS) and Aaron Tang (UCL)

Collective Bargaining and Worker Complementarity
with Nidhaanjit Jain (Chicago Booth) and Bei Luo (Michigan)