Professur für betriebliche Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung
Welcome!
Michael Oberfichtner has been professor for employment research at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg and head of the research department “Establishments and Employment” at IAB since April 2023.
His current research focuses on imperfect competition in labour markets, on understanding gender differences in employment outcomes, and on field experiments to evaluate labour market policies.
Michael Oberfichtner is research fellow of IZA, associate of the interdisciplinary research network LASER and member of the Standing Field Committees for Social Policy and for Population Economics of the Verein für Socialpolitik.
News and announcements
- In the summer term 2026, I will teach the lecture Bildungsökonomik (in German). For details, see https://sites.google.com/view/oberfichtner/teaching [external link]
- Exam inspections for the winter term 2025/26 are possible on 13 April, 8:45 am. Please make an appointment via email if you want to inspect your exam.
- The paper “Do caseworker meetings prevent unemployment? Evidence from a field experiment” by Pia Homrighausen and myself is forthcoming in the European Economic Review and available here https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2025.105215 [external link]
