Christina Gathmann is Head of the Labor Market Department of the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) and Professor of Economics at the University of Luxembourg. After studies in Germany, Venezuela and Canada, Christina Gathmann obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. She then held positions at Stanford University, the Hoover Institute, the University of Mannheim and Heidelberg University.

She is also affiliated with the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), CESifo, the Center for Research and Analysis on Migration (CReAM) at University College London, the Institut Convergences Migrations at the Paris School of Economics, the Mannheim Center for Socio-Economic Research (MZES), the Stanford Center for Poverty and Inequality and the Center for European Economic Research (ZEW).

Christina Gathmann has won the Young Economist Award of the European Economic Association in 2003 and is an elected member of the Academia Europea. She was elected as a member of the Academic Advisory Council of the Federal Ministry of the Economy and Climate Protection in Berlin since 2013 and served as its Deputy Chair from 2015 to 2019. She also serves as a member of the scientific council of the MERCUR University Alliance of the Mercator Foundation, the ZEW Research Group on Migration, Integration and Attitudes and the Cultural Foundation of BASF (TOR4). Before, she was a member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Institute of Employment Research (IAB) and served as its Chair from 2021 to 2022; she also served as a member of the advisory councils of the Bremen Research Initiative on Early Childhood (BRISE).

Her research interests are in labor economics, migration, public economics and political economy, policy evaluation and applied econometrics. Within these areas, she is particularly interested in the production and depreciation of human capital and its impact on turnover, wages, inequality and unemployment; and the economic and social consequences of political institutions and labor market policies.

She joined IZA as a Research Affiliate in September 2003 and became a Research Fellow in May 2008.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16062
revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 89, 102541
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15786
published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 82, 102343
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15364
Francesco Berlingieri, Christina Gathmann, Matthias Quinckhardt
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11269
Anna Busse, Christina Gathmann
revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2020, 179, 240-260
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10813
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2018, 36 (3), 665-709
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9113
revised version published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2021, 13 (2), 26-57
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8064
Christina Gathmann, Nicolas Keller
revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128 (616), 3141-3181
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6783
published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2013, 5 (2), 232-60
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