Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Dauth
Wolfgang Dauth has been head of the Regional Labor Markets research department at IAB since May 2021 and is professor of regional labor market economics at Otto Friedrich University in Bamberg. Prior to this, he was junior professor of empirical regional and international economics at Julius Maximilian University in Würzburg and a research assistant at the IAB. He studied economics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg from 2003 to 2008. He then received a scholarship to participate in the joint graduate program of the IAB and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, where he earned his doctorate in July 2012. In 2011 and 2014, he spent several weeks as a visiting researcher at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, USA, respectively.
His research lies at the intersection of labor economics, regional and urban economics. He focuses on topics such as the interplay between the labor market and the housing market, the adjustment of individual workers to the impact of transformation, as well as commuting and matching on local labor markets.
Wolfgang Dauth is a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) and at Rockwool Foundation Berlin (FRBerlin), a member of the Board of Associate Editors of the Journal of Regional Science, co-editor of the Journal of Labour Market Research, and a member of the Committee on Regional Theory and Policy of the Verein für Socialpolitik.