Omar Bamieh

Omar Bamieh is an assistant professor in Economics at the University of Vienna and a Research Affiliate of the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA). He holds a PhD from the European University Institute (EUI). His research focuses on labor economics, with specific interests in professional licensing, gender pay gap, social norms, wage transparency, and business uncertainty. He explores topics such as occupational licensing, parental leave policies, and the gender pay gap's intersection with social norms.

Education: PhD from the European University Institute (EUI).

Research interests include analyzing wage transparency's impact on labor market gender sorting, parental leave systems' effects on maternal employment, and the drivers of paternity leave adoption. His work also addresses the economic consequences of crises like the COVID-19 pandemic on labor demand, using Austrian job board data for empirical analysis.

Key publications include studies on wage transparency, flexible parental leave policies, and pandemic labor market dynamics. He collaborates with researchers like Lennart Ziegler on labor market policy evaluations.