Departmental Seminar - Dec 9th, 2024

Dita Eckardt is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick since 2021. Prior to joining Warwick, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), where she remains a Research Associate. She is also a Research Associate at the Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE), an Associate at the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), and a Research Affiliate at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).

She is an applied economist, focusing on policy-relevant topics in labour economics. Her current research explores the specificity of human capital and how this affects workers’ ability to work in different occupations. In a second strand of research, she works on methodological advances in applied econometrics.

Dita Eckardt's website

She will present a paper at the next Departmental Seminar on the topic:

Labor Market Entry Conditions and Occupational Mismatch: Evidence from Apprenticeship Graduates (read abstract, PDF 41.23 KB)

This is the last Departmental Seminar of this Fall: we look forward to seeing you again during the Winter-Spring Semester 2025!