Key details
Dr Thomas Rabensteiner
Lecturer in Economics
Thomas Rabensteiner is a Lecturer in Economics and affiliated with the Centre of Political Economy, Governance, Finance and Accountability (PEGFA). My research focuses on labour economics, industrial relations and applied economics. At the University of Greenwich, I teach modules in data analysis and macroeconomics and supervise dissertations from undergraduate to PhD level.
He is the recipient of a British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant (2025–26). His research has also been funded by the Migration Advisory Committee, the Foundation for European Progressive Studies, Unite the Union, the Economic Change Unit, the Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament, and the Cambridge Political Economy Society Trust.
He is also co-organiser of the annual Summer School in Post-Keynesian Economics and Political Economy
More details about his work are available on website. You can find his CV here.
Responsibilities within the university
- 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
Awards
- British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research awardee, 2025-26
- Mark Hayes Prize, for an outstanding paper presented at the Post-Keynesian Economics Society’s 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 for Master’s studies abroad, Austian Chamber of Labour, 2018
Recognition
- 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.
Key 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
Recent publications
Academic Publications
- Occupational Autonomy and Wage Divergence: Evidence From European Survey Data with Alexander Guschanski. British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2025
- Do recessions accelerate routine-biased technological change in Western Europe? with Alexander Guschanski. revise and resubmit, Socio-Economic Review
- Estimating the Effects of Austerity on the Labour Market: Evidence from Great Britain with Rob Calvert Jump, Jo Michell and Erikas Norvaisa. SSRN Working Paper, 2025, Under Submission.
- The rise of the supervisory wage gap in Europe with Alexander Guschanski, Under Submission
Policy Publications
- The profit-price spiral in food and energy: Analysis and toolbox to fight inflation with Ines Heck, Ben Tippet and Anna Kolesnichenko. FEPS Policy Study, 2025
- A progressive excess profit tax for the European Union Policy report with Ines Heck and Ben Tippet, The Greens/EFA in the European Parliament, 2024
- Gewinne im Uberfluss with Ines Heck, Makronom (in German), 2024
- Business case for a New Deal for workers: what is good for workers is good for the economy with Ozlem Onaran and Alexander Guschanski, PEGFA Policy Brief, 2024
In Progress
- The gendered labour markets of austerity (with Rob Jump and Jo Michell)
- The determinants of housing affordability in the UK (with Hannah Hasenberger)
- Do the poor pay more for housing in the UK? (with Hannah Hasenberger)
- Migration and housing costs in the UK (with Luca Tasciotti and Navjot Sangwan)
Presentations
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