Prof. Dr. Melanie Arntz

Chair of Employment Research
Curriculum vitae
Since January 2025, Melanie Arntz is vice director of the IAB and professor of labour market and occupational research at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg.
She studied geography and economics at the University of Bonn and the University of Minnesota before receiving her doctorate in empirical economic research from the TU Darmstadt in 2007. Since 2002, she has also been a research assistant at ZEW Mannheim, where she was deputy head of the “Labor Markets and Social Insurance” research unit between 2009 and 2024. In 2009, she became a junior professor at the University of Heidelberg. Financially supported by the Leibniz Programme for Women Professors, she was appointed as an associate professor of labour markets at the University of Heidelberg in 2018.
Melanie Arntz is a member of the regional and urban economics committee of the Verein für Socialpolitik and co-editor of the Journal for Labor Market Research. She has extensive experience in policy advice, including as a member of the Working World Council of the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs and on the scientific advisory board of the BMAS on securing skilled workers.
Her research focus is on structural changes in the labor market, particularly in the wake of technological progress. She deals with the question of how new technologies such as artificial intelligence change employment, wages and inequality in the labor market, what new requirements come with them and how occupations, jobs and companies develop due to new technologies. She is also interested in how different regional labour markets evolve during structural change and what effect this has on companies and workers alike.
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2023
Do preferences for urban amenities differ by skill?
In: Journal of Economic Geography 23 (2023), p. 541-576
ISSN: 1468-2702
DOI: 10.1093/jeg/lbac025
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2020
Working from Home and COVID-19: The Chances and Risks for Gender Gaps
In: Inter economics 55 (2020), p. 381-386
ISSN: 0020-5346
DOI: 10.1007/s10272-020-0938-5
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