Dr. Sarra Ben Yahmed
Dr. Sarra Ben Yahmed
Labour Markets and Social Insurance
Sarra Ben Yahmed joined ZEW in September 2014. She is a Senior Researcher in ZEW’s Research Unit “Labour Markets and Social Insurance” and studies how transformations in the world of work affect inequalities in the labour market.
Her research covers the fields of labour economics, international trade, and development economics. Combining both empirical and theoretical analysis, she has explored different mechanisms through which international trade affects gender wage inequality. She has also addressed questions related to informal employment and gender differences in labour outcomes. Her research agenda also includes projects on how digitalisation and new work arrangements, such as working from home, affect employment and wage inequality in the labour market. More recently, she started to investigate how the pandemic has shaped spatial, occupational and gender inequalities.
Sarra Ben Yahmed studied economics at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, the University Carlos III Madrid, and the University Paris 1 – Paris School of Economics. After graduating, she worked as an intern at the OECD. She holds a PhD from Aix-Marseille University and received the university’s 2013 PhD Thesis Prize. Prior joining ZEW, Sarra Ben Yahmed worked at the Department of Economics of Sciences Po Paris.
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Excellence in Refereeing Award, // 2023
Prizes, Awards and DistinctionsWorld Bank Economic Review, Washington, D.C., United States of America
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Dissertationspreis, Phd thesis prize // 2013