Visiting Faculty and Research Scholars

Visiting Faculty

	Mari Rege, University of Stavanger, Norway (September 2014 - July 2015) Mari Rege is a Professor of Economics at the UiS Business School at the University of Stavanger and ESOP at the University of Oslo. She received her PhD from University of Olso in 2002. [Read more]
	John M. Abowd, Cornell University, NY (September 2014 - June 2015) John M. Abowd is the Edmund Ezra Day Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations, Professor of Information Science, and Director of Graduate Studies in Economics at Cornell University; Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER, Cambridge, MA); Research Affiliate at the Centre de Recherche en Economie et Statistique (CREST, Paris, France); and Research Fellow at the Institute for Labor Economics (IZA, Bonn, Germany). [Read More]

Visiting Research Scholars

	Melanie Khamis, Wesleyan University (January 2015 - July 2015) Melanie Khamis is currently an Assistant Professor of Economics at Wesleyan University. She completed her PhD at the London School of Economics in 2008. She also holds an MSc in Economics from the University of Warwick and a BSc in Economics from the London School of Economics. She worked at IZA as a Research Associate after her PhD and continues to be affiliated with IZA as a Research Fellow.
	Sachiko Kazekami, Chukyo University, Japan (April 2014 - April 2015) Sachiko Kazekami is an associate professor of Labor Economics at Chukyo University. She received her Ph.D from KEIO University in 2011. Sachiko places emphasis on job creations, local labor market, job mobility and the effect from global economy. She is a committee member of regional job creation project at the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare in Japan.
	Patrick Arni, Institution for The Study of Labor, Germany (August 2014 - December 2014) Patrick Arni received his PhD from the Department of Economics at HEC Lausanne in 2011. He was previously a visiting scholar at Tilburg University. In 2008, he completed the PhD course program of the Swiss National Bank Study Center Gerzensee. He obtained a Master's degree from University of Zurich and did some additional studies at University of Geneva. [Read More]
	Andrea Weber , University of Mannheim, Germany (January 2015 - June 2015) Andrea Weber is Professor of Economics at the University of Mannheim, Research Associate at the Center of Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London, Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn, Affiliate of the CESifo Research Network in Munich, and Research Consultant with the Austrian Institute for Economic Research (WIFO) in Vienna. [Read More]
	Craig Riddell , University of British Columbia, Canada (September 2014 - December 2014) I am Royal Bank Faculty Research Professor in the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia and Academic Director of the Canadian Labour Market and Skills Research Network. I am also a Research Fellow of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) and the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM). [Read More]
	Antonio Accetturo , Bank of Italy, Italy (September 2014 - December 2014) I am an economist at the Trento Branch of the Bank of Italy - Research Research Unit. I got my PhD from the Catholic University of Milan in 2007. My researches are focused on trade economics, urban economics, policy evaluation and political economics.

Visiting Student Researchers

	Hilda Ralsmark, Lund University, Sweden (August 2014 - July 2015)
	Bernhard Enzi, Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Germany (February 2015 - May 2015) Bernhard Enzi is a doctoral student at the University of Munich, junior economist at the ifo Institute for Economic Research and a member of the advanced study programme of the Swiss Leading House “Economics of Education”. He obtained a master’s degree at the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics and a bachelor’s degree at the University of Munich. His field of research is applied microeconometrics with a focus on the economics of education.
	Pawel Bukowski, Central European University, Hungary (February 2015 - April 2015) Pawel Bukowski is a PhD Candidate in Economics at the Department of Economics of Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. His research interests have been focused on school choice, school competition and effects of educational institutions on the long run formation of human capital.

Post-Doctoral Scholars

Cedric Gorinas, Danish Institute for Social Research, Denmark (October 2014 - December 2015) Cédric Gorinas is employed as a Postdoc/Researcher at the Danish Institute for Social Research in Copenhagen, Department of Employment and Integration. His main research interests are microeconomics applied to crime and immigration. He received his PhD degree from the Department of Economics and Business at Aarhus University in 2013, after a Master degree from Aarhus University and earlier studies at ISC Paris Business School and The European Business School of London.