Dr Thomas Rabensteiner BA, MSc, PhD

• Module leader ECON1192 Intermediate Macroeconomics for Business
• Module leader ECON1196 Applied Data Analysis
• Dissertation supervision for BSc Economics, BA Business Economics and MSc Economics
• PhD supervision

• British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research awardee, 2025-26
• Mark Hayes Prize, for an outstanding paper presented at the PKES PhD
• conference, 2022
• Three Minute Thesis, UK Semi-Finalist, 2022
• Three Minute Thesis Winner, University of Greenwich, 2022
• VC Scholarship, University of Greenwich, 2020-2023
• Maria Szecsi Fellowship, Austrian Chamber of Labour, 2018

• Co-organizer of the annual Summer School in Post-Keynesian Economics and Political Economy.
• Regularly consulting policy makers and think tanks there. One can find an overview of his policy work, collaborations and invited presentations in his CV.

• Labour economics
• Industrial relations
• Applied economics
• Housing markets

Key funded projects

• British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants 2025-26 Round, £10,000.00, ”The effect of migration on the rental market” (2026), Principal Investigator (competitive grant)
• Home Office (Migration Advisory Committee), £14,978.34, ”Migration and Housing” (2025), Principal Investigator (competitive grant)
• Economic Change Unit, £4,000, ”Ensuring affordable food, energy and housing in the UK” (2025), Principal Investigator
• Cambridge Political Economy Society Trust, £2,000, ”Post-Keynesian economics and Political Economy Society summer school” (2026), Co-Investigator
• Cambridge Political Economy Society Trust, £3,000, ”Post-Keynesian economics and Political Economy Society summer school” (2025), Co-Investigator
• Unite, £838.37, ”The effects of austerity on economic growth” (2024)
• Foundation for European Progressive Studies, €10,000 (£8,707.50), ”The profit-price spiral in food and energy: Analysis and toolbox to fight inflation” (2024), Principal Investigator
• Unite, £6,013, ”Public Spending, taxation, labour’s bargaining power and macroeconomic outcomes” (2024), Co-Investigator
• European Parliament (The Greens/EFA in the European Parliament), £6588,56, ”An Excess Profits Tax for the EU” (2023-2024), Co-Investigator
• Unite, £5526.43, ”Estimating Future Steel Demand in the UK” (2023), Principal Investigator

Academic Publications

• Rabensteiner and Guschanski (2025). Occupational Autonomy and Wage Divergence: Evidence From European Survey Data. British Journal of Industrial Relations
• Rabensteiner and Guschanski, Do recessions accelerate routine-biased technological change? Evidence from Western Europe. Accepted at Socio-Economic Review
• Rabensteiner and Guschanski, The rise of the supervisory wage gap in Europe. Revise and Resubmit at ILR Review — Supplementary appendix - Working paper here
• Calvert Jump, Michell, Rabensteiner, and Norvaisa, Estimating the Effects of Austerity on the Labour Market: Evidence from Great Britain. Under review - Working paper here
• Rabensteiner and Hasenberger, Do Renters In Deprived Neighbourhoods Pay More? Rental Yields And The Poverty Penalty: Evidence From England And Wales. Under Review - Working paper here
• Rabensteiner, Sangwan, and Tasciotti, Immigration and Housing Costs: A Survey of Evidence, Mechanisms and Identification Under Review

Policy Publications

• Rabensteiner, Sangwan, and Tasciotti (2026), Migration and housing costs: What does international evidence imply for the UK? Report, Migration Advisory Committee
• Rabensteiner, Heck, Tippet and Kolesnichenko (2025), The profit-price spiral in food and energy: Analysis and toolbox to fight inflation. Policy Report, Foundation for European Progressive Studies.
• Heck, Rabensteiner and Tippet (2024), A progressive excess profit tax for the European Union
  Policy report, The Greens/EFA in the European Parliament
• Heck and Rabensteiner (2024), Gewinne im Überfluss Makronom (in German)
• Onaran, Guschanski and Rabensteiner (2024), Business case for a New Deal for workers: what is good for workers is good for the economy PEGFA Policy Brief

Invited Presentations

• European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), ”Inflation Preparedness in the EU”, Brussels, September 2025
• UIL Nazionale, ”The profit-price spiral: How to prevent the cost of living crises”, Rome, September 2025
• Post-Keynesian Economic Society Summer School 2025, Lecture topic: Income inequality and wealth inequality, London, June 2025
• Progressive Economics Network (PEN) meeting on ”Preparedness, Investment, and Industrial Policy in Times of Political Upheaval”, FES Berlin Office, the German Chancellery, and the DPZ Office, Berlin, November 2024
• Post-Keynesian Economic Society Summer School 2024, Lecture topic: Income inequality and wealth inequality, London, June 2024
• Post-Keynesian Economic Society Summer School 2023, Lecture topic: Income inequality and the cost of living crisis, London, June 2025

Conference and Seminar Presentations

• 2025: PEGFA Seminar Series, University of Greenwich, London October 2025; Forum for Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies Conference, Berlin, October 2025; BUIRA Annual Conference, University of Exeter in Cornwall, Penryn Campus, June 2025
• 2024: PEGFA Seminar Series, University of Greenwich, London, November 2024; Forum for Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies Conference, Berlin, October 2024; BUIRA Annual Conference, Queen Mary University, London, June 2024
• 2023: Luxembourg Income and Wealth Study Conference, EAEPE Conference, ILO Regulating for Decent Work Conference, Annual Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics, Post-Keynesian Economic Society PhD Conference, Allied Social Science Associations (ASSA) Annual Meeting, PEGFA Seminar Series