Issues in Labour Economics

For individual workers, job security is one of the most attractive amenities of a job. In surveys on relevant employment features job security ranks invariably above career perspectives and attractive remuneration. But what are the labour market consequences of these programmes? And what are differences between the US and European systems of employment protection? These are two of the questions that visiting CES scholar, Gerard Pfann, will address in his CES Lectures in February.

Gerard Pfann’s research interests are empirical analyses of labour markets dynamics, investment decisions of firms, industrial organisation, health and the role of institutions on inequality and unemployment.

Mr Pfann acted as the first Research Director of the Institute for the Future of Labor in Bonn. He is co-founder of the IZA Prize in Labor Economics, and initiator of the Annual Transatlantic Meetings for Labor Economists jointly with the Society of Labor Economists. He has chaired the Maastricht Research School of Economics of Technology and Organizations, and created of the Maastricht University Graduate School of Business and Economics. Moreover, he acted as Subject Chair for Business & Economics in the Contents Selection and Advisory Board of SCOPUS, is Founding Editor of the Journal of Empirical Finance, and a decade long he acted as the Editor-in-Chief of the European Economic Review.

Gerard Pfann holds a doctorate in Quantitative Economics from Maastricht University, where he is currently Professor of Econometrics of Markets and Organizations. His distinctions include the Edmond Hustinx Prize for Science and a J. William Fulbright Award. He was elected Associate Member of Nuffield College at the University of Oxford.

> CESifo Working Papers by Gerard Pfann