Ines Helm
Project leader

Ines Helm

Project leader

Ines Helm is a Professor of Economics at JKU Linz. She is also affiliated with the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), the CesIfo research network, and the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration at UCL. Before joining JKU, Ines worked as an associate professor at LMU Munich and an assistant professor at Stockholm University. She earned her PhD in 2016 from University College London. Her research focuses on topics in labor economics, such as the economics of local labor markets, the cost of job displacement, wage inequality and labor market power.

Featured publications

American Economic Journal, October 2024

The Dynamic Response of Municipal Budgets to Revenue Shocks

Ines Helm and Jan Stuhler

Journal of Urban Economics, November 2023

The Effects of Cash for Clunkers on Local Air Quality

Ines Helm, Nicolas Koch, and Alexander Rohlf

The Review of Economic Studies, October 2019

National Industry Trade Shocks, Local Labor Markets, and Agglomeration Spillovers

Ines Helm

Journal of the European Economic Association, December 2018

Spillover Effects of Mass Layoffs

Christina Gathmann, Ines Helm, and Uta Schönberg