Anna Schwarz

She is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Central European University (CEU), with research areas including labor economics, inequality, and public economics.

Her research focuses on the labor market and inequality. In a current project, she combines several administrative data sources to provide novel evidence on social mobility in Austria from a multidimensional perspective. She further investigates mechanisms behind social mobility, such as childhood neighborhoods, the interplay of changing demand for skills and vocational trainings, as well as higher education expansion.

During her PhD at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), she began working on unemployment insurance in Austria, addressing questions related to training enrollment and unemployment sanctions. Two other projects study the gendered nature of in-work poverty and the heterogeneity among the self-employed in Europe. Additionally, she studies social mobility perceptions and political preferences in Austria.

She combines applied microeconometrics and experimental methods to answer her research questions. She works both with administrative data (including Austrian social security data, tax data, registry data, and education data), as well as international surveys (EU-SILC, EWCS, EU-LFS) and her own tailor-made surveys.