Nicolas Ziebarth is head of ZEW’s Research Unit "Labour Markets and Social Insurance" and a professor of economics at the University of Mannheim. Before joining ZEW in July 2022, he was a tenured associate professor at Cornell University. Dr. Ziebarth earned his PhD in economics titled "Sickness Absence and Economic Incentives" from the Berlin University of Technology in 2011.
Professor Ziebarth’s research studies the interaction of (social) insurance systems with labour markets and population health. In particular, he is an international expert on the economics of sick leave. His sick leave research has been featured by the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the WHO and the Economist, and cited as a reason for the Healthy Families Act, the initial FFCRA emergency sick leave provision as well as its extension.
Nicolas Ziebarth's work has been published in leading economic journals as well as in multidisciplinary and policy journals. He is the senior editor of the Journal of Risk and Insurance and serves on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Population Economics and the Journal of Health Economics. Ziebarth won several awards for his research. He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in March 2011.
