Martin Kahanec
Senior Research Associate

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Kahanec Senior Research Associate (since 2005, Senior since 2007), Deputy Program Director "Migration" (since 2007), the leader of the research sub-area EU Enlargement and the Labor Markets (since 2006) and former Deputy Director of Research (2009) at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn, Germany. Since January 2010 Assistant Professor at the Central European University in Budapest. Member of several professional associations (AEA, ESPE, EALE, EEA) and a founding member of the Slovak Economic Association.

His main research interests are Labour and Population Economics, Ethnicity, and Migration. Martin has published in refereed journals, has a chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Economic Inequality (OUP), and he has edited scientific volumes and a journal special issue.

Martin has held several advisory positions and participated in a number of scientific and policy projects with the World Bank, the European Commission, OECD, and other international and national institutions.

Martin Kahanec earned his Ph.D. in Economics in 2006 from the Center for Economic Research (CentER), Tilburg University, the Netherlands, with his thesis "Social Interaction and the Labor Market: Essays on Earnings Inequality, Labor Substitutability, and Segregation." During his doctoral studies, he spent several months as a Marie-Curie Fellow at the Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) of Université Toulouse 1 Sciences Sociales in France and the European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES) of Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium.

Prior to his doctoral studies, in 2000 he earned his Master's degree from the Central European University in Budapest as well as from the Faculty of management, Comenius University, in Bratislava, where he also earned his Bachelor's degree in 1998.
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IZA Discussion Papers:
No. Author(s)
Title
4735  Martin Kahanec
Michael P. Shields
The Working Hours of Immigrants in Germany: Temporary versus Permanent
4660  Amelie F. Constant
Martin Kahanec
Ulf Rinne
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Ethnicity, Job Search and Labor Market Reintegration of the Unemployed
4230  Martin Kahanec
Anzelika Zaiceva
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Lessons from Migration after EU Enlargement
(published in: M. Kahanec and K. F. Zimmermann (eds.), EU Labor Markets after Post-Enlargement Migration, Springer: Berlin, et al. 2009, 3-45)
3913  Martin Kahanec
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Migration in an Enlarged EU: A Challenging Solution?
(published by the European Commission as Economic Paper 363, March 2009; forthcoming in: Filip Keereman and István Pál Székely (eds.), Five years of an enlarged EU - a positive-sum game, Springer: Berlin, et al., 2010)
3890  Martin Kahanec
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Migration and Globalization: Challenges and Perspectives for the Research Infrastructure
(forthcoming in: German Council for Social and Economic Data (RatSWD) (ed.), Developing the Research Infrastructure for the Social and Behavioral Sciences in Germany and Beyond. Progress since 2001, Current Situation, and Future Demands. Budrich UniPress Ltd., Opladen, 2010)
3650  Amelie F. Constant
Martin Kahanec
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Attitudes towards Immigrants, Other Integration Barriers, and Their Veracity
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2009, 30 (1+2), 5-14)
3560  Martin Kahanec
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Migration, the Quality of the Labour Force and Economic Inequality
3450  Martin Kahanec
Klaus F. Zimmermann
International Migration, Ethnicity and Economic Inequality
(substantially revised version published in: Oxford Handbook on Economic Inequality, Oxford University Press, Oxford et al., 2009, 455 - 490)
3420  Martin Kahanec
Anzelika Zaiceva
Labor Market Outcomes of Immigrants and Non-Citizens in the EU: An East-West Comparison
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2009, 30 (1+2), 97-115)
3167  Martin Kahanec
Ethnic Competition and Specialization
3146  Martin Kahanec
Mariapia Mendola
Social Determinants of Labor Market Status of Ethnic Minorities in Britain
(A. Constant; K. Tatsiramos; K.F. Zimmermann (eds.): Ethnicity and Labor Market Outcomes (Research in Labor Economics, Vol. 29), Bingley, 2009, 167-195 )
3140  Martin Kahanec
Mehmet S. Tosun
Political Economy of Immigration in Germany: Attitudes and Citizenship Aspirations
(published in: International Migration Review, 2009, 43 (2), 263 - 291)
2530  Amelie F. Constant
Martin Kahanec
Klaus F. Zimmermann
The Russian-Ukrainian Political Divide
2330  Amelie F. Constant
Martin Kahanec
Klaus F. Zimmermann
The Russian-Ukrainian Earnings Divide
2050  Martin Kahanec
Ethnic Specialization and Earnings Inequality: Why Being a Minority Hurts but Being a Big Minority Hurts More
1945  Martin Kahanec
The Substitutability of Labor of Selected Ethnic Groups in the US Labor Market
1872  Martin Kahanec
Two Faces of the ICT Revolution: Desegregation and Minority-Majority Earnings Inequality
 
IZA Research Reports:
Martin Kahanec
Report No. 21: The Decade of Roma Inclusion: A Unifying Framework of Progress Measurement and Options for Data Collection
Research report for the "Decade of Roma Inclusion 2005-2015", Bonn 2009 (50 pages)
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Martin Kahanec
Amelie F. Constant
Don J. DeVoretz
Liliya Gataullina
Anzelika Zaiceva
Report No. 16: Study on the Social and Labour Market Integration of Ethnic Minorities
Report for the High Level Advisory Group on Social and Labour Market Integration of Ethnic Minorities and the European Commission, Bonn 2008 (166 pages)
[German version] (Studie über die soziale Eingliederung und Arbeitsmarktintegration ethnischer Minderheiten)
 

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