Pål Schøne is Research Director at the Institute for Social Research (ISF) in Oslo, Norway.

He received his PhD from the Department of Economics at the University of Oslo.

His research interests include empirical analyses of immigration, the wage structure, gender wage differentials, education, labour mobility, and analyses of impact of public policy. His research is published in Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Labour Economics, Journal of Population Economics, Review of Economics of the Household, Regional Studies, Journal of Corporate Finance, among others.

Pål joined IZA as a Research Fellow in November 2016.