Dr. Max Friedrich Steinhardt is a senior economist at the Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWI). In the past years, he has also worked at the Centro Studio Luca d’Agliano (LdA) in Milan, the European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES) in Brussels and as an external consultant for the OECD. His research interests lie in the fields of labor economics, economics of migration, applied microeconometrics and regional economics.