Vladimir Gimpelson, Ph.D. , is Professor of Practice, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison (since 2022). Until 2022, he was Director of the Centre for Labour Market Studies at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, the Russian Federation. His doctoral dissertation (1986) was concerned with the use of in large cities.

His book 'The Russian Labour Market: Between Transition and Turmoil' (co-authored with D.Lippoldt) was published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers in 2001. His papers appeared in 'Journal of Comparative Economics', ''Economics and Politics', 'Sociology Compass', 'The Economics of Transition', 'British Journal of Political Science', 'World Politics', 'Comparative Economic Studies', 'LABOUR: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations', 'Economic and Industrial Democracy', 'Les cahiers Internacionaux de Sociologie', 'Slavic Review', 'Post-Soviet Affairs', 'Communist Economies and Economic Transformation' among others.

In 1994-1997, he worked as a consultant in a number of OECD projects. In 1998-99, he was a Professor at the Economics Department, University of Tokyo, Japan. The current work is focused on issues of political economy of labor market adjustment, on employment and informal employment, on inequality perceptions.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in December 1999.