Elke J. Jahn

Visiting Scholar
Economist

Contact Information
Phone: (617) 495-4303 x202
E-Mail: ejahn@fas.harvard.edu





Biographical Statement

Jahn is senior researcher and head of the research group Temporary Agency Work at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB), a postdoc and lecturer at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, and IZA research fellow, Germany. In 2001, she received her PhD in economics from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg for her thesis on the economic theory of employment protection. Her research interests center on labor market institutions, new comparative economic systems, and search and matching theory. Currently, she is working on the wage and employment effects of subsidized temporary agency work. Jahn will be in residence at CES from September of 2006 through August of 2007.