Marcel Jansen is an associate professor at the Universidad Autonóma de Madrid and a researcher at Fedea. He obtained a Ph.D. in economics at the European University Institute in Florence. His main research interests are in the fields of labor economics, search theory and macroeconomics.

Marcel Jansen joined IZA as a Research Fellow in November 2003 and he acted as a consultant for the OECD, the European Commission, the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank.