I am a Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg.
I am also a Research affiliate at IZA and CESifo, a Research associate at LASER, and a holder of an Add-On Fellowship by the Joachim Herz Foundation.
My main field is labor economics.
Currently, I am working on topics such as non-wage job amenities and working conditions, the labor market effects of new technologies and digitization, the effects of labor market policies, and gender differences in the labor market.
In my research, I apply econometric methods, experimental methods, and machine learning.
You can find my publications and work in progress here.
Email: erwin.winkler@fau.de
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February 2026: New Paper: Minimum Wages and Work Pressure. CESifo Working Paper No. 12460.
February 2026: Our paper "Preferences for Gender Diversity in High-Profile Jobs" is published by Labour Economics. See here.
November 2025: We are looking for a Ph.D. student for our DFG-funded project on non-wage amenities. See here for more details.
November 2025: The German Research Foundation (DFG) is funding our project "The Economics of Non-Wage Amenities: A Supply-Side Perspective" (with Markus Nagler and Michael Stops).
September 2025: Starting a one-month research visit at the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona.
August 2025: Presenting our work on AI at the Tasks VII Conference ("The Economic Impacts of AI on Work and Labor Markets") in Luxembourg in September.
May 2025: I am looking forward to visit the University Pompeu Fabra in September and October and CESifo Munich in November 2025.
April 2025: I am very happy to join the CESifo network as a research affiliate.
March 2025: New IZA Discussion Paper and CESifo Discussion Paper on Preferences for Gender Diversity among Co-Workers.
Feb. 2025: We received the IZA Award for Innovative Research on a Pressing Public Issue (IRPPI) for our paper on the labor market effects of Artificial Intelligence.
Feb. 2025: New IZA Discussion Paper on the estimation of heterogeneous earnings effects of exports, using machine learning.
Jan. 2025: I am very happy to receive the Add-on Fellowship by the Joachim Herz Foundation!