Nicolas Ziebarth

Dr. Nicolas Ziebarth is a Head of Research Department at Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH.
He is head of ZEW’s Research Department “Labour Markets and Social Insurance” and a professor of economics at the University of Mannheim.
His research studies the interaction of (social) insurance systems with labour markets and population health.
In particular, he is an international expert on the economics of sick leave.
His sick leave research has been featured by the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the WHO and the Economist, and cited as a reason for the Healthy Families Act, the initial FFCRA emergency sick leave provision as well as its extension.
Before joining ZEW in July 2022, he was a tenured associate professor at Cornell University.
He earned his PhD in economics at TU Berlin/DIW Berlin in 2011; his advisors were Gert Wagner and Regina Riphahn.