Michael Oberfichtner

Research Fellow

Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg

Michael.Oberfichtner@iab.de

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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.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16923

Do Caseworker Meetings Prevent Unemployment? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Pia Homrighausen, Michael Oberfichtner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16843

Parental Leave, Worker Substitutability, and Firms' Employment

Mathias Huebener, Jonas Jessen, Daniel Kühnle, Michael Oberfichtner

published online in: Economic Journal, 13 December 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15675

The Wage Elasticity of Recruitment

Boris Hirsch, Elke J. Jahn, Alan Manning, Michael Oberfichtner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15231

Labour Market Concentration, Wages and Job Security in Europe

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 online in: Journal of Human Resources, 6 March 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14478

A Firm-Side Perspective on Parental Leave

Mathias Huebener, Jonas Jessen, Daniel Kühnle, Michael Oberfichtner

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

Revisiting Gender Identity and Relative Income within Households: A Cautionary Tale on the Potential Pitfalls of Density Estimators

Daniel Kühnle, Michael Oberfichtner, Kerstin Ostermann

published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2021, 36 (7), 1065-1073.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13576

Do Unions and Works Councils Really Dampen the Gender Pay Gap? Discordant Evidence from Germany

Michael Oberfichtner, Claus Schnabel, Marina Töpfer

published in: Economics Letters, 2020, 196, 109509

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13271

Cash-For-Care, or Caring for Cash? The Effects of a Home Care Subsidy on Maternal Employment, Childcare Choices, and Children's Development

Matthias Collischon, Daniel Kühnle, Michael Oberfichtner

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

Employment Adjustments Following Rises and Reductions in Minimum Wages: New Insights from a Survey Experiment

Mario Bossler, Michael Oberfichtner, Claus Schnabel

published in: Labour, 2020, 34 (3), 323-346

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11064

The German Model of Industrial Relations: (Where) Does It Still Exist?

Michael Oberfichtner, Claus Schnabel

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?

Daniel Kühnle, Michael Oberfichtner

published as 'Does Starting Universal Childcare Earlier Influence Children's Skill Development?' in: Demography, 2020, 57 (1), 61-98.