Christina Gathmann - Biography#

Christina Gathmann is Head of the Labor Market Department of the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) and Professor of Economics at the University of Luxembourg. After studies in Germany, Venezuela and Canada, Christina Gathmann obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2004. She then was a Post-doctoral Fellow at Stanford University, a National Fellow at the Hoover Institute and an Assistant Professor at the University of Mannheim. In 2011, Christina Gathmann became Full Professor of Labor Economics and New Political Economy at Heidelberg University.

She is also affiliated with the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), CESifo, the Center for Research and Analysis on Migration (CReAM) at University College London, the Institut Convergences Migrations at the Paris School of Economics, the Mannheim Center for Socio-Economic Research (MZES), the Stanford Center for Poverty and Inequality and the Center for European Economic Research (ZEW). Her research visits include Aalto University, Columbia University, NHH Bergen, University College London and Yale.

Christina is an internationally highly regarded labor economist whose work is published regularly in the top economic journals such as the Journal of European Economic Association, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Economic Journal or Journal of Labor Economics. She made substantial contributions on the role of human capital in the labor market, migration and integration as well as policy evaluation spanning immigration, education, family and health policies. Her expertise on education policies, sources of wage inequality, economic/social assimilation of immigrants will prove invaluable for the analysis of the labor market consequences of the digital transformation.

Christina Gathmann has won the Young Economist Award of the European Economic Association in 2003, among others.