Lennart Ziegler

Lennart Ziegler is an Assistant Professor in Economics at the University of Vienna and a Research Fellow at IZA. His research focuses on Labor Economics, Applied Microeconomics, and Inequality, with particular interests in parental leave policies, gender differences, skill demand, and the labor market impacts of remote work. He holds academic positions at the Department of Economics, University of Vienna, and has taught courses such as Advanced Microeconometrics and Labor Economics at both undergraduate and graduate levels.

His research explores topics such as the effects of parental leave reforms in Austria, wage transparency on gender sorting, and the long-term consequences of college expansions on skill sorting and child inequality. He has received grants from institutions like the Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB) Anniversary Fund and the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF) to investigate parental leave policies and their career trajectories.

Key projects include analyzing the impact of flexible parental leave systems on maternal employment, evaluating labor market speeddating interventions for unemployed workers, and studying how teleworking options became more prevalent during the pandemic. His work combines empirical analysis with policy relevance, often using regression discontinuity designs and large administrative datasets.

• Education: BSc, MSc, MPhil (degrees not explicitly stated but mentioned in header)
• Teaching: University of Vienna (2017–present), VU Amsterdam (2014–2016), University of Amsterdam (2013), University of Mannheim (2009)
• Grants: OeNB Anniversary Fund (2021–2024), WWTF (Parental Leave and Career Trajectories)
• Labs/Teams: Principal Investigator of projects on parental leave policies and remote work trends