Faculty

Štěpán Jurajda has been the Mellon Endowment Associate Professor with Tenure (under US permanent charter) at CERGE-EI and a member of the Executive and Supervisory Committee of CERGE-EI since 2004. He is also affiliated with IZA, Bonn. 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. From January 2022 to August 2023, he served as Deputy Minister for Science, Research and Innovation of the Czech Republic. He received his Ph.D. in Labor Economics from the University of Pittsburgh. 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 of the Social Sciences and Humanities Committee at the Czech Science Foundation. He received the Gold Commemorative medal of Charles University and was granted the Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowship at the European University Institute. He has been a member of the National Economic Council of the Government of the Czech Republic and Vice-Chairman of the Research, Development and Innovation Council of the Government of the Czech Republic. He is currently a member of the Czech Government's Council for Gender Equality, of the Scientific Council of the Czech Science Foundation, the Scientific Council of Charles University, and the Academic Senate of the Czech Academy of Sciences. His research appeared in leading journals, including the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Econometrics, and PNAS.

Research Orientation:

Applied microeconomics, econometrics, labour economics, economics of transition