Michael Oberfichtner

Prof. Dr. Michael Oberfichtner serves as Professor at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) since April 2023 and leads the department "Establishments and Employment" at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB). He is also a Research Fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).

• PhD in Economics, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg (2015)
• M.Sc. in Business Administration and Economics, FAU (2011)
• BA in Business Administration and Economics, FAU (2009)

His research addresses imperfect labor markets, gender differences in employment trajectories, and field experiments on labor market policy evaluation. Recent work includes analysis of labor market concentration in Germany, parental leave impacts on firm employment, and cash-for-care subsidy effects on maternal employment.

Current publications focus on:

• Labor market dynamics in imperfect competition
• Gendered responses to economic shocks (e.g., pandemic)
• Policy evaluation through experimental methods