Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

Research Fellow

Johannes Kepler University Linz

External Homepage

Research Interests

Rudolf Winter-Ebmer is Professor for Labor Economics at the University of Linz, Austria and Research Professor at the Vienna Institute for Advanced Studies. Rudolf received a Ph.D. in Economics in 1991 and a Habilitation degree from the University of Linz in 1996. In 1995-96 he was Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Industrial Relations at UC Berkeley and 1998 Visiting Professor at the University of Graz, he has lectured in Zurich, Innsbruck and Vienna. Since 1992 he has been Research Affiliate and later Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, London. From 1998-2004 he served the European Society for Population Economics as Secretary and later as President, he is a member of the section on population economics of the "Verein für Socialpolitik". He was coordinator of the "Austrian Center for Labor Economics and the Analysis of the Welfare State" as well as the Austria Country Team Leader for SHARE (Survey on Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe). His interests lie in the areas of microeconometric labor market research and include topics such as unemployment, wage formation, education, inequality, discrimination, migration and economics of aging. His research has been published in the American Economic Review, Journal of Labor Economics, European Economic Review, Oxford Economic Papers and Economica among others.

Rudolf joined IZA as a Research Fellow in March 1999.

Filter

IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9928
How Does Parental Divorce Affect Children's Long-term Outcomes?
Wolfgang Frimmel, Martin Halla, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 239, 105201
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9564
Are Competitors Forward Looking in Strategic Interactions? Evidence from the Field
Mario Lackner, Rudi Stracke, Uwe Sunde, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organisation, 2020, 179, 544-565
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9192
Seniority Wages and the Role of Firms in Retirement
Wolfgang Frimmel, Thomas Horvath, Mario Schnalzenberger, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
publshed in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 164, 19 - 32
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9176
The Effect of Income on Mortality: New Evidence for the Absence of a Causal Link
Alexander Ahammer, Thomas Horvath, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society A, 2017, 180 (3), 793 - 816
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8396
When Is the Best Time to Give Birth?
Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter, Christoph Pamminger, Andrea Weber, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, 179(3), 707-725, 2016.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6958
Does Schooling Improve Cognitive Functioning at Older Ages?
Nicole Schneeweis, Vegard Skirbekk, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
published as 'Does Education Improve Cognitive Performance Four Decades After School Completion?' in: Demography, 2014, 51 (2), 619-643
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6704
Can Pro-Marriage Policies Work? An Analysis of Marginal Marriages
Wolfgang Frimmel, Martin Halla, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
published in: Demography, 2014, 51(4), 1357-1379
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6015
More Schooling, More Children: Compulsory Schooling Reforms and Fertility in Europe
Margherita Fort, Nicole Schneeweis, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
substantially revised version published as 'Is Education Always Reducing Fertility? Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Reforms' in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (595), 1823 - 1855
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5944
The Causal Effect of Education on Health: What is the Role of Health Behaviors?
Giorgio Brunello, Margherita Fort, Nicole Schneeweis, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
published in: Health Economics, 2016, 25 (3), 314-336
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4446
Assortative Mating and Divorce: Evidence from Austrian Register Data
Wolfgang Frimmel, Martin Halla, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
revised version published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, 2013, 176(4), 907–929
Type
Display
20 50 100
Type