Gesine Stephan is head of the Research Department "Active labor market policy" at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) in Nuremberg and Professor of Empirical Microeconomics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. Her research focuses on applied labor economics. She has published in particular on the evaluation of active labor market programs, on the structure of wages in Germany, and on fairness aspects of the employment relationship.

She joined IZA as a Research Fellow in August 2008.