Faculty

Štěpán Jurajda has been the Mellon Endowment Professor with Tenure (under US permanent charter) at CERGE-EI and a member of the Executive and Supervisory Committee of CERGE-EI since 2004. Between January 2009 and December 2013, he served as the Director of CERGE, Charles University, and the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences (EI), where he is a Full Professor and a Senior Researcher, respectively. He graduated from the Prague School of Economics in Econometrics and Operations Research and received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Labor Economics from the University of Pittsburgh, respectively. He was an Assistant Professor of Economics at CERGE-EI, where he served as Deputy Director for Research during 2000–2001 and 2005–2007. He defended his professorship at Charles University, where he also received the Gold Commemorative medal. His habilitation was defended in economics at the Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University, and he received the Otto Wichterle Prize for young scientists awarded by the Czech Academy of Sciences. He is also affiliated with CEPR, London, and IZA, Bonn. Štěpán was also a Visiting Research Fellow at Princeton University, Department of Economics. He was a member of the Executive Committee of the European Association of Labour Economists, and chair of the Economics Panel and the Social Sciences and Humanities Committee at the Czech Science Foundation. He was granted the Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowship at the European University Institute and became a member of the Research, Development and Innovation Council of the Government of the Czech Republic. He has been a member of the National Economic Council of the Government of the Czech Republic.

Research Orientation:

Applied microeconomics, econometrics, labour economics, economics of transition