Elke J. Jahn

Research Fellow

University of Bayreuth

ejjahn@gmail.com

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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).

Since 2015 she is a member of the scientific board of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees and since 2020 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. 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 forthcoming in: Journal of Human Resources

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