Rainer Eppel

Dr. Rainer Eppel is a Senior Economist & Research Group Coordinator at Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung.
He has been working in the Research Group "Labor Market, Income and Social Security" since 2008.
His research focuses on the empirical analysis of labor market developments and the evaluation of labor market policy, in particular, microeconomic analysis based on individual data from Austrian social security and the Public Employment Service Austria.
In numerous research projects on behalf of institutions such as the Austrian Ministry of Social Affairs, the Public Employment Service Austria, and the International Labor Organization (ILO), lectures, publications in international refereed journals, and activities as a referee, he is devoting himself above all to unemployment and political measures for reintegration into working life, in addition to topics such as labor market segmentation and interactions between social security and employment.
Dr. Rainer Eppel is also a lecturer at the Danube University, Krems.
In 2012, he was also a visiting researcher and subsequently a research affiliate at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW).
He graduated in Economics in 2008, in Political Science (both at the University of Vienna) in 2009, and received his doctorate in Economics (Vienna University of Economics and Business) in 2014.
In his dissertation, he investigated the effectiveness of active labor market policy measures in Austria.