People at CELSI: Martin Kahanec, PhD.

Scientific Director and Research Fellow
PhD. Tilburg University
Research areas
Labour markets and institutions
Ethnicity and migration

Email: martin.kahanec@celsi.sk

 

Martin Kahanec is a labour economist. He is Associate Professor at the Central European University in Budapest. Martin Kahanec is a Senior Research Associate, Deputy Program Director „Migration“, the leader of the research sub-area EU Enlargement and the Labor Markets and former Deputy Director of Research (2009) at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn, Germany. His main research interests are Labor and Population Economics, Ethnicity, and Migration. Martin has published in refereed journals, his chapter has recently appeared in the Oxford Handbook of Economic Inequality, Oxford University Press, and he has edited scientific volumes and a journal special issue. He is the Managing Editor of IZA Journal of European Labor Studies.

Martin has held several advisory positions and participated in a number of scientific and policy projects with the World Bank, the European Commission, OECD, and other international and national institutions.
Martin Kahanec earned his Ph.D. in Economics in 2006 from the Center for Economic Research (Cen­tER), Tilburg University, the Netherlands, with his thesis „Social Interaction and the Labor Market: Essays on Earnings Inequality, Labor Substitutability, and Segregation.“ During his doctoral studies, he spent several months as a Marie-Curie Fellow at the Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) of Université Toulouse 1 Sciences Sociales in France and the European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (E­CARES) of Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium.
Prior to his doctoral studies, in 2000 he earned his Master's degree from the Central European University in Budapest as well as from the Faculty of management, Comenius University, in Bratislava, where he also earned his Bachelor's degree.

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Recent publications

[1] Kahanec, M., Guzi, M., Zimmermann, K.F. and Giulietti, C. (2012): Unemployment Benefits and Immigration: Evidence from the EU, forthcoming in International Journal of Manpower, accepted 2011 (also CEPR DP 8672; IZA DP 6075; 2011)

[2] Kahanec, M. and Zimmermann, K.F. (2011): Ethnic Diversity In European Labor Markets – Challenges and Solutions, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 336 p., 978 1 84844 559 8

[3] Kahanec, M., Constant, A. F., Zimmermann, K.F. and Rinne, U. (2011): Ethnicity, Job Search and Labor Market Reintegration of the Unemployed, forthcoming in International Journal of Manpower, (accepted 2011). (also IZA DP 4660; 2009)
http://ftp.iza.org/dp4660

[4] Kahanec, M., Constant, A. F. and Zimmermann, K.F. (2011): The Russian-Ukrainian Earnings Divide, forthcoming in Economics of Transition, (accepted 2011). (also IZA Discussion Paper 2330, CEPR DP 5904 and DIW Berlin DP 627; 2006)
http://ftp.iza.org/dp2330.pdf

[5] Kahanec, M. and Zimmermann, K.F. (2011): International Migration, Ethnicity and Economic Inequality, in Wiemer Salverda, Brian Nolan and Timothy M. Smeeding, (eds.), Oxford Handbook on Economic Inequality, Oxford: Oxford University Press, (2009), 455–490.(also IZA Discussion Paper 3450, 2008)

[6] Kahanec, M. and Zimmermann, K.F. (2010): High-Skilled Immigration Policy in Europe, in Barry R. Chiswick (ed.) High-Skilled Immigration in a Globalized Labor Market, Washington DC: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Reseacrh, (2011), 264–314.

[7] Kahanec, M., Constant, A. F. and Zimmermann, K.F. (2010): The Russian-Ukrainian Political Divide, forthcoming in Eastern European Economics, (accepted 2010). (also IZA DP 2530; CEPR DP 6085; and DIW Berlin DP 656; 2006)

[8] Kahanec, M. and Zimmermann, K.F. (2010): EU Labor Markets after Post-Enlargement Migration, Berlin: Springer, (2010), 1st Edition., 2010, VIII, 344 p.

[9] Kahanec, M. and Mendola, M. (2009): Social Determinants of Labor Market Status of Ethnic Minorities in Britain, Review of Labor Economics, Vol. 29, (2009), 167–195. (also IZA DP 3146, University of Milano – Bicocca WP 125; 2007)

[10] Kahanec, M. and Tosun, M.S. (2009): Political Economy of Immigration in Germany: Attitudes and Citizenship Aspiration, International Migration Review, Vol. 43, No. 2, (Summer 2009), 263–291. (also IZA DP 3140; 2007)

[11] Kahanec, M., Constant, A. F. and Zimmermann, K.F. (2009): International Journal of Manpower, special issue on “Migration, Ethnicity and Identity in Host Labor Markets”, Vol. 30, No. 1+2 (2009).

[12] Kahanec, M. (2009): The Decade of Roma Inclusion: A Unifying Framework of Progress Measurement and Options for Data Collection, IZA Research Report No. 21
http://www.iza.org/…eport_21.pdf

[13] Kahanec, M. and Zaiceva, A. (2009): Labor Market Outcomes of Immigrants and Non-Citizens in the EU: An East-West Comparison, International Journal of Manpower, Vol. 30, No. 1+2, (2009), 97–115. (also IZA DP 3420; 2008)

[14] Kahanec, M. (2007): Ethnic Competition and Specialization, in Gil S. Epstein and Ira N. Gang, (eds.), Frontiers of Economics and Globalization: Migration and Culture, Vol. 8, Bingley: Emerald Publishing (2010), 205–230.