Michael Oberfichtner
Research Fellow
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 Publications
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17745
published in: German Economic Review, 2025, 26 (4), 361-393
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16923
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16843
published in: Economic Journal, 2025, 135 (669), 1467–1495
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15675
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15231
Andrea Bassanini, Giulia Bovini, Eve Caroli, Jorge Casanova Ferrando, Federico Cingano, Paolo Falco, Florentino Felgueroso, Marcel Jansen, Pedro S. Martins, António Melo, Michael Oberfichtner, Martin Popp
revised version published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2026, 61 (3), 817-853
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14478
published as "Parental Leave, Worker Substitutability, and Firms’ Employment" in The Economic Journal, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueae114
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14293
Daniel Kühnle, Michael Oberfichtner, Kerstin Ostermann
published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2021, 36 (7), 1065-1073.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13576
published in: Economics Letters, 2020, 196, 109509
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13271
published as 'Who Benefits from Cash‐for‐Care? Effects of a Home Care Subsidy on Maternal Employment, Childcare Choices, and Children’s Development' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2024, 59 (4), 1011-1051
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11747
published in: Labour, 2020, 34 (3), 323-346
