Hartmut Lehmann

Research Fellow

New Uzbekistan University

h.lehmann@newuu.uz

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Hartmut Lehmann is currently Professor of Economics at New Uzbekistan University in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. He was Academic Vice-Director of the Leibniz Institute of East and Southeast European Studies and Professor of Economics at the University of Regensburg from April 2021 until May 2024. Before that he was Professor of Economics at the University of Bologna and has been awarded the honorary title of Alma Mater Professor of Economics of the University of Bologna. From 1999 until May 2023 he was IZA progam director of the area "Labor Markets in Transition and Emerging Economies."

He is also an IZA Fellow since September 1999 and a Research Fellow of IOS. He has been a consultant to the World Bank and the OECD for many years. He was president of the Association of Comparative Economic Studies in the year 2013 and of the European Association of Comparative Economic Studies from 2018 to 2024. He was one of the editors of the IZA Journal of Development and Migration until the closure of the journal.

He has recently published articles in the American Behavioral Scientist, Labour Economics, Economic Systems, the Journal of Comparative Economics, the Eurasian Economic Review, Journal of Health Economics, Economics of Transition, Industrial Labor Relations Review, Research in Labor Economics, Journal for Labour Market Research, Journal of International Development, and Comparative Economic Studies.

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IZA-Publikationen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16491

Job Creation and Job Destruction in Turkey: 2006 - 2021

Sinem H. Ayhan, Hartmut Lehmann, Selin Pelek

published as 'Job Creation and Job Destruction in Turkey: 2006 - 2021' in: Eurasian Economic Review, 2025, 15, 741 - 773.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16445

Risk Attitudes and Informal Employment in Ukraine

Thomas Dohmen, Melanie Khamis, Hartmut Lehmann, Norberto Pignatti

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14650

Import Competition and Informal Employment: Empirical Evidence from China

Feicheng Wang, Zhe Liang, Hartmut Lehmann

thoroughly revised version appeared as 'Import Competition and the Rise of Precarious Employment. Evidence from Individual-level and Firm-level Data in China' in: Labour Economics , No. 97, December 2025.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13358

The Bonding Effect of Deferred Compensation: Worker Separations from a Large Firm in Early Transition Russia

Mikhail Ananyev, Thomas Dohmen, Hartmut Lehmann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13039

Regional Convergence in Russia: Estimating a Neoclassical Growth Model

Hartmut Lehmann, Aleksey Oshchepkov, Maria Giulia Silvagni

revised version published as 'Regional Convergence in Russia: Estimating an Augmented Solow Model' in: Economic Systems, 2023, 47 (4), 101128

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11256

Informal Employment Relationships and the Labor Market: Is There Segmentation in Ukraine?

Hartmut Lehmann, Norberto Pignatti

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics 2018, 46 (3), 838-857

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10982

The Impact of Non-Cognitive Skills and Risk Preferences on Rural-to-Urban Migration: Evidence from Ukraine

Sinem H. Ayhan, Kseniia Gatskova, Hartmut Lehmann

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2020, 48 (1), 144 - 162.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9588

Worker Flows and Labour Market Adjustment during the Great Recession: Evidence from a Large Shock

Hartmut Lehmann, Tiziano Razzolini, Anzelika Zaiceva

thoroughly revised version published as 'The Great Recession and Labor Market Adjustment: Evidence from Latvia' in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2020, 62 (1), 149 - 181.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9333

Time-Varying Individual Risk Attitudes over the Great Recession: A Comparison of Germany and Ukraine

Thomas Dohmen, Hartmut Lehmann, Norberto Pignatti

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2016, 44 (1), 182-200

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8687

Informal Employment in Transition Countries: Empirical Evidence and Research Challenges

Hartmut Lehmann

published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2015, 57 (1), 1-30

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7844

Re-defining Informal Employment and Measuring its Determinants: Evidence from Russia

Hartmut Lehmann, Anzelika Zaiceva

published in: Journal of International Development, 2015, 27 (4), 464 - 488

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7603

Is There Convergence of Russia's Regions? Exploring the Empirical Evidence: 1995–2010

Hartmut Lehmann, Maria Giulia Silvagni

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7327

The Costs of Worker Displacement in Urban Labor Markets of China

Yuhao Ge, Hartmut Lehmann

puplished in: IZA Journal of Labor and Development, 2013, 2, Article 4

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7090

The Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey: Towards a Better Understanding of Labor Markets in Transition

Hartmut Lehmann, Alexander Muravyev, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2012, 1, Article 9

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7035

Labor Market Institutions and Informality in Transition and Latin American Countries

Hartmut Lehmann, Alexander Muravyev

published in: Froelich, M., Kaplan, D., Pages, C., Rigolini, J. and D. Robalino (Eds.): Social Insurance ad Labor Markets: How to Protect Workers while Creating Good Jobs, Oxford University Press, 2014, 375-410.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6230

Job Separations and Informality in the Russian Labor Market

Hartmut Lehmann, Tiziano Razzolini, Anzelika Zaiceva

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2012, 34, 257-290

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5905

Labor Markets and Labor Market Institutions in Transition Economies

Hartmut Lehmann, Alexander Muravyev

published in: Paul Hare and Gerard Turley (eds.): The Handbook of the Economics and Political Economy of Transition, Routledge, 2013, pp. 350-362

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5415

The Costs of Job Loss in Russia

Hartmut Lehmann, Alexander Muravyev, Tiziano Razzolini, Anzelika Zaiceva

revised version published as 'The Wage and Non-wage Costs of Displacement in Boom Times: Evidence from Russia' in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2013, 41 (4), 1184-1201

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4673

How Important Are Labor Market Institutions for Labor Market Performance in Transition Countries?

Hartmut Lehmann, Alexander Muravyev

revised version published in: Economics of Transition, 2012, 20 (2), 235-269

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4467

The Impact of Chernobyl on Health and Labour Market Performance in the Ukraine

Hartmut Lehmann, Jonathan Wadsworth

revised version published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (5), 843-857

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3428

The Gender Earnings Gap inside a Russian Firm: First Evidence from Personnel Data – 1997 to 2002

Thomas Dohmen, Hartmut Lehmann, Anzelika Zaiceva

published in: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung/Journal for Labour Market Research, 2008, 41 (2-3), 157-180.