Boris Hirsch

Research Fellow

Leuphana University Lüneburg

hirsch@leuphana.de

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Boris Hirsch has been Full Professor of Economics, in particular Microeconometrics and Policy Evaluation, at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg since August 2016. He studied economics and mathematics at the Universities of Erlangen-Nuremberg and Hagen. In 2009, he received his doctorate degree from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg where he was postdoctoral researcher from 2009-2016.

His research interests lie in the theory and empirics of imperfectly competitive labour markets, empirical labour economics, industrial relations, and migration. His research appeared in outlets such as the Economic Journal, the Journal of Labor Economics, the Journal of Human Resources, and the ILR Review. He further serves as an editor to the German Economic Review and as an associate editor to the Journal for Labour Market Research.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in August 2014.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15893

Unions as Insurance: Employer–Worker Risk Sharing and Workers' Outcomes during COVID-19

Nils Braakmann, Boris Hirsch

published in: Industrial Relations, 2024, 63 (2), 152-171

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15675

The Wage Elasticity of Recruitment

Boris Hirsch, Elke J. Jahn, Alan Manning, Michael Oberfichtner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15112

Uncovered Workers in Plants Covered by Collective Bargaining: Who Are They and How Do They Fare?

Boris Hirsch, Philipp Lentge, Claus Schnabel

published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2022, 60 (4), 929-945

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14551

Non-Base Compensation and the Gender Pay Gap

Boris Hirsch, Philipp Lentge

published in: Labour, 2022, 36 (3), 277-301

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13909

Organised Labour, Labour Market Imperfections, and Employer Wage Premia

Sabien Dobbelaere, Boris Hirsch, Steffen Müller, Georg Neuschaeffer

substantially revised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2024, 77 (3), 396 - 427

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12333

Birds, Birds, Birds: Co-Worker Similarity, Workplace Diversity, and Voluntary Turnover

Boris Hirsch, Elke J. Jahn, Thomas Zwick

revised version published as 'Birds, Birds, Birds: Co-Worker Similarity, Workplace Diversity and Job Switches' in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2020, 58 (3), 690-718

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11309

Firm Wage Premia, Industrial Relations, and Rent Sharing in Germany

Boris Hirsch, Steffen Müller

revised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2020, 73 (5), 1119-1146

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9635

The Urban Wage Premium in Imperfect Labour Markets

Boris Hirsch, Elke J. Jahn, Michael Oberfichtner

substantially revised version coauthored with Alan Manning published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57, S111-S136

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9015

Coming to Work While Sick: An Economic Theory of Presenteeism with an Application to German Data

Boris Hirsch, Daniel S. J. Lechmann, Claus Schnabel

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2017, 69 (4), 1010-1031