Elke J. Jahn

Research Fellow

University of Bayreuth

ejjahn@gmail.com

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Evaluation of Labor Market Programs

Research Interests

Elke J. Jahn is currently professor of labour economics at Bayreuth University and distinguished researcher at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) Nuremberg. She was associate professor at Aarhus School of Business, Aarhus University between 2007 and 2009 and visiting scholar at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University during the academic year 2006/2007.

Her research focuses on temporary agency work, employment protection legislation, and migration.

Elke J. Jahn joined IZA as Research Fellow in March 2005.

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Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11377

The Cyclicality of the Stepping-Stone Effect of Temporary Agency Employment

Elke J. Jahn, Michael Rosholm

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10480

Do Neighbors Help Finding a Job? Social Networks and Labor Market Outcomes After Plant Closures

Elke J. Jahn, Michael Neugart

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9635

The Urban Wage Premium in Imperfect Labour Markets

Boris Hirsch, Elke J. Jahn, Michael Oberfichtner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8803

Do Changes in Regulation Affect Temporary Agency Workers' Job Satisfaction?

Henna Busk, Elke J. Jahn, Christine Dauth

published in: Industrial Relations, 2017, 56 (3), 514-544

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7776

The Cyclical Behaviour of Employers' Monopsony Power and Workers' Wages

Boris Hirsch, Elke J. Jahn, Claus Schnabel

substantially revised version published as "Do employers have more monopsony power in slack labor markets?" in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2018, 71(3), 676-704

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7240

Does Better Pre-Migration Performance Accelerate Immigrants' Wage Assimilation?

Boris Hirsch, Elke J. Jahn, Ott Toomet, Daniela Hochfellner

published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 212-222

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6713

Migration and Imperfect Labor Markets: Theory and Cross-Country Evidence from Denmark, Germany and the UK

Herbert Brücker, Elke J. Jahn, Richard Upward

published in: European Economic Review, 2014, 66, 205-225

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6472

Is There Monopsonistic Discrimination against Immigrants? First Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Boris Hirsch, Elke J. Jahn

substantially revised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2015, 68 (3), 501-528