Dr. Laura Pohlan
Dr. Laura Pohlan
Labour Markets and Social Insurance
Dr. Laura Pohlan is a junior research associate at ZEW. She works in close cooperation with the research unit “Labour Markets and Social Insurance”.
Laura Pohlan studied economics at the University of Mannheim from 2008 to 2013. She worked as a researcher in the ZEW Research Unit “Labour Markets and Social Insurance” from 2013 to 2020. In July 2018, she completed her PhD with her thesis entitled “Essays on Unemployment, Job Search Behavior and Policy Interventions” at the University of Mannheim. She is currently working as a senior researcher in the research unit “Labour Market Processes and Institutions” at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) in Nuremberg.
Her research interests include the empirical analysis of search and hiring processes and the role of frictions in the labour market. A special focus lies on the labour market integration of the long-term unemployed.
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Dr. Laura Pohlan
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Dissertationspreis, Roman Herzog Forschungspreis Soziale Marktwirtschaft // 2020
Prices, Awards and DistinctionsRoman Herzog Institute, Munich, Germany
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Dissertationspreis, Wissenschaftspreis "Zukunft der Arbeitswelt" // 2019
Wissenschaftspreis Volksbank Weinheim Stiftung e.V., Germany