Boris Hirsch

Boris Hirsch is a Professor of Economics at Leuphana University of Lüneburg and a Research Fellow at the Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) since December 2016. He specializes in Microeconometrics and Policy Evaluation, with a focus on labor markets and industrial relations.

Research Interests:

• Imperfectly competitive labor markets
• Empirical labor economics
• Industrial relations
• Migration

Recent Publications analyze labor market imperfections, collective bargaining coverage, and unionization effects. His work spans econometric analyses, policy evaluation, and empirical studies of employer wage premia. Key trends include the role of unions in mitigating external shocks (e.g., pandemic impacts) and quantifying wage disparities in union-covered workplaces.

Affiliation: Department of Structural Change and Productivity at IWH, a member of the Leibniz Association.