
Dr. Erwin Winkler
Room: 4.117
Phone:+49 – (0)911 – 530295 – 260
Fax: +49 – (0)911 – 530295 – 178
Email: erwin.winkler@fau.de
Office Hours: by appointment
Webpage: Private webpage
Erwin Winkler is a Postdoctoral Researcher at FAU. He is also affiliated with CESifo, IZA@LISER, and LASER, and he is a holder of an Add-on Fellowship by the Joachim Herz Foundation. He conducted research visits at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania), and Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona).
Research interests: Labor economics, technological change and digitization, health & family economics.
In ongoing projects, he studies the determinants and consequences of working conditions, the labor market effects of new technologies, the impact of labor market policies, and the determinants of economic inequality. His work combines econometric methods, experimental methods, and machine learning to address policy-relevant questions.
Refereed publications:
Preferences for Gender Diversity in High-Profile Jobs, Labour Economics, forthcoming (with C. Högn, L. Mayer and J. Rincke)
High-pressure, High-Paying Jobs?, The Review of Economics and Statistics, 107(6), 1471–1484, 2025 (with M. Nagler and J. Rincke)
Working from Home, Commuting, and Gender, Journal of Population Economics, 37:58, 2024 (with M. Nagler and J. Rincke)
All you need is love? Trade shocks, inequality, and risk sharing between partners, European Economic Review 111, 305-335, 2019 (with K. Huber) Publication
Exporters and Wage Inequality during the Great Recession: Evidence from Germany, Economics Letters 136, 137-140, 2014 (with W. Dauth and H.J. Schmerer) Publication
Work in progress: Please visit his private webpage to see his ongoing work.