Michael Oberfichtner is a senior researcher at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB). He joined the IAB in 2015. From 2011 to 2017, he worked as a researcher at the Chair of Labour and Regional Economics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, where he completed his PhD (Dr. rer. pol.) in 2015. During his PhD studies he held a scholarship of the Bavarian Graduate Program in Economics (BGPE).
Michael Oberfichtner’s current research focuses on imperfect competition in labor markets, on understanding gender differences in employment outcomes, and on field experiments to evaluate labor market policies.
Michael Oberfichtner joined IZA as a research fellow in September 2022.
IZA-Publikationen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11064
published in: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik), 2019, 239 (1), 5-37
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10661
Does Early Child Care Attendance Influence Children's Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skill Development?
published as 'Does Starting Universal Childcare Earlier Influence Children's Skill Development?' in: Demography, 2020, 57 (1), 61-98.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10652
published in: Health Economics, 2018, 26(12), 1844-1861
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9635
substantially revised version coauthored with Alan Manning published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57, S111-S136
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8317
published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2014, 3:19
IZA Standpunkt Nr. 102
Zeitgleich erschienen als IAB-Kurzbericht 3/2022
