Macroeconomics Seminar with Miren Azkarate-Askasua (Mannheim)

Miren Azkarate-Askasua is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Mannheim since 2021 after completing her Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellowship at the European University Institute (EUI). She is also a member of the CRC TR 224 EPoS–Economic Perspectives on Societal Challenges and a Research Fellow of the ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin - Institute for the Economy and the Future of Work (RFBerlin).

Her research interests lie at the intersection of macroeconomics and labour economics with a special focus on labour market power, worker mobility, human capital accumulation and the measurement of inequality.

Miren Azkarate-Askasua's website

She will present a paper, joint with Christian Hellwig and Miguel Zerecero, at the next Macroeconomics Seminar on the topic:

Home Bias and the Gender Wage Gap

The next Macroeconomics Seminar will host Gaston Navarro (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond) on October 7th.