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Philipp Kircher is the Irving M. Ives Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Economics at Cornell University, with affiliations at UCLouvain and the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on labor markets, firm-worker matching, technological change, and disease transmission (e.g., HIV/AIDS and COVID-19), blending theoretical models, computational simulations, and statistical methods. He has published in top journals like the American Economic Review, Econometrica, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics. His current work includes studies on online job search via the Job Search Lab and the societal impacts of automation. He leads research on pandemic policy design, emphasizing behavioral adjustments and age-based interventions.
- Roles: Professor (Cornell), Honorary Professor (Edinburgh), Researcher (UCLouvain)
- Key Themes: Labor market frictions, sorting mechanisms, computational epidemiology, firm dynamics, and policy evaluation.
His research highlights the interplay between labor markets and public health, such as modeling how wage postings influence job search behavior and how disease transmission dynamics mirror labor market interactions. His work on HIV/AIDS in Africa and pandemic policies underscores the societal and economic dimensions of health crises.
Grants include an ERC grant (818859) exploring technological change’s impact on wage inequality. He co-leads the Job Search Lab, investigating low-cost advice for unemployed individuals. His contributions to labor economics include foundational papers on directed search theory and sorting mechanisms in large firms.
Labs/Teams: Job Search Lab (Cornell), collaborations in computational economics and epidemiological modeling.
