Esther Arenas Arroyo

Esther Arenas Arroyo serves as a tenured Associate Professor of Economics at Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), holding concurrent Research Fellow positions at IZA-Institute of Labor Economics, Oxford University's Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), and the Global Labor Organization (GLO). She has been affiliated with the University of Vienna as a Cluster member since 2023.

Her academic foundation includes doctoral training at Queen Mary University of London followed by postdoctoral research at Oxford's COMPAS:

• PhD: Queen Mary University of London
• Postdoctoral Research: University of Oxford, COMPAS

As a first-generation scholar, Dr. Arenas Arroyo's research centers on labor economics, migration, and crime with particular focus on disadvantaged families. She investigates policy mechanisms that perpetuate poverty across generations while examining how empowering marginalized women influences children's opportunities. Current work analyzes immigration policy ripple effects on businesses, communities, and family structures through empirical methodologies that bridge economic theory with real-world social challenges.

She actively contributes to academic infrastructure as co-organizer of the Vienna Applied Microeconomics Network and through University of Vienna research clusters, fostering interdisciplinary collaborations that translate economic research into actionable policy insights for socioeconomic equity.