Anna Salomons is a professor at Tilburg University’s Department of Economics and an Instituut Gak endowed professor at Utrecht University’s School of Economics. She is also a Research Fellow at IZA, the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), the Technology & Policy Research Initiative at Boston University, and the Block Center for Technology and Society at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research explores various labor market topics, with a focus on the labor market impacts of technological change, including consequences for earnings levels and inequality, employment and the job structure, and skill demand and supply. In 2024, she received the European Economic Association’s Role Models in Economics Award.

Anna Salomons
Research Affiliate, Stone Center on Inequality and Shaping the Future of Work
Professor, Tilburg University's Department of Economics
Labor Market Consequences of Technological Change
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