I am a Postdoctoral researcher at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, a Research affiliate at IZA, CESifo, and LASER, and a holder of an Add-On Fellowship by the Joachim Herz Foundation.
My research spans the fields of labor economics, applied microeconomics, economics of technological change, and personnel economics. I study how new technologies, workplace characteristics, and labor market institutions shape workers' outcomes, firms' decisions, and economic inequality. My work combines econometric methods, experimental methods, and machine learning to address policy-relevant questions.
You can find my publications and work in progress here.
Email: erwin.winkler@fau.de
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July 2026: Presenting my work at the research seminars in Passau and Tübingen and at the IAB workshop on imperfect competition on labor markets.
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!