Elke J. Jahn

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University of Bayreuth

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Elke J. Jahn is professor of labour economics at the University of Bayreuth and distinguished senior researcher at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) Nuremberg. Before joining the University of Bayreuth she was associate professor at Aarhus School of Business, Aarhus University. She was visiting scholar at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University (2006/2007) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2020).

Between 2015 and 2022 she was a member of the scientific board of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees. Since 2020 she is a member of the Bavarian Ethics Council.

Her research focuses on monopsony, multinational wage premium, migration, and temporary agency work

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

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15675
The Wage Elasticity of Recruitment
Boris Hirsch, Elke J. Jahn, Alan Manning, Michael Oberfichtner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14956
How Does the Position in Business Group Hierarchies Affect Workers' Wages?
Hartmut Egger, Elke J. Jahn, Stefan Kornitzky
revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 194 (2), 244-263
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12333
Birds, Birds, Birds: Co-Worker Similarity, Workplace Diversity, and Voluntary Turnover
Boris Hirsch, Elke J. Jahn, Thomas Zwick
revised version published as 'Birds, Birds, Birds: Co-Worker Similarity, Workplace Diversity and Job Switches' in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2020, 58 (3), 690-718
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
substantially revised version in: Labour Economics, 2020, 65, 101825,
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9635
The Urban Wage Premium in Imperfect Labour Markets
Boris Hirsch, Elke J. Jahn, Michael Oberfichtner
substantially revised version coauthored with Alan Manning published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57, S111-S136
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
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