Uwe Jirjahn is Professor of Economics at the University of Trier. He researches labor market economics and personnel economics, with special interests in works councils, teamwork, performance pay, migration, older employees, single parents, discrimination, and the labor market consequences of foreign ownership.

Among other journals, he has published in Applied Economics, British Journal of Industrial Relations, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Industrial and Corporate Change, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Industrial Relations, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Journal of Population Economics, Economics Letters, Kyklos, Labour Economics, Oxford Economic Papers, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Social Science Quarterly, and Urban Studies.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in September 2016.