Niall O'Higgins is Senior Economist in the ILO's Employment Analysis Unit. He holds degrees from Trinity College Dublin, York and Sheffield Universities and a Ph.D. from the European University Institute in Florence. His main research interests cover various aspects of labour and experimental economics. He is one of the main authors of the ILO's bi-annual Global Employment Trends for Youth. Amongst his recent publications a book on youth employment policy and one on Internship, along with papers in the European Economic Review, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Journal of Institutional Economics and B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy.
He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in February 2008.
IZA-Publikationen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16637
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14933
Niall O'Higgins, Luis Pinedo Caro
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12424
published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2020, 20 (3), 20180165
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11459
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9901
published in: European Economic Review, 2018, 107, 86–98
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9249
Gianluigi Coppola, Niall O'Higgins, Claudio Pinto
published in: O’Higgins, N. and G. Coppola (eds), Youth unemployment and the crisis: Unemployment, education and health in Europe, Routledge , Abdingdon, 2016
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8860
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7792
published in: International Review of Applied Economics, 2016, 30(5), 591-604
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7668
published in: European Educational Research Journal, 2014, 13(3), 282-294
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7667
published in: Cambridge Journal of Economics 2015, 39 (2), 631-654
