| Rudolf Winter-Ebmer | |
| Birth Date: | 25 August 1961 |
| Birth Place: | Steyr, Austria |
| Citizenship: | Austrian |
| Spouse: | Yes; 2 children |
| Institution: | Johannes Kepler University Linz |
| Field: | Labor economics |
| Alma Mater: | Johannes Kepler University Linz (PhD, 1991; Habilitation, 1996) |
| Awards: | 2013 Landeskulturpreis für Wissenschaft OÖ |
| Repec Prefix: | e |
| Repec Id: | pwi7 |
Rudolf Winter-Ebmer (born 1961 in Steyr, Austria)[1] is an Austrian economist and professor of labor economics at Johannes Kepler University Linz, where he is also chair of the department of economics. He is also a senior fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna, Austria.[2] [3] Since 2011, he has also been associate editor of the Institute's official journal, Empirical Economics.[4] He has been heading a Christian-Doppler Laboratory of "Ageing, Health and the Labor Market" at the Johannes-Kepler-University of Linz 2014-2021. He is a member of the German Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina) and a former President of the European Society for Population Economics. 2021-22, he was President of the Austrian Economic Association (NOEG).
Rudolf Winter-Ebmer initiated the Austrian part of the SHARE survey (Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe) https://share-eric.eu/ in 2001 - the largest socio-economic project in the European Union and co-initiated the Austrian Socio-Economic Panel (ASEP), https://www.statistik.at/services/tools/services/center-wissenschaft/austrian-socio-economic-panel-asep 2023.
His research concentrates on empirical labor economics, wage determination, migration, ageing, gender economics, unemployment and the analysis of price comparison sites.