Sarra Ben Yahmed

Dr. Sarra Ben Yahmed is a Senior Researcher at Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH.
She joined ZEW in September 2014.
She is an Advanced Researcher in ZEW’s Research Department “Labour Markets and Social Insurance” and coordinates the research area “Integration into Labour Markets”.
Her research covers the fields of labour economics, international trade, and development economics.
Combining both empirical and theoretical analysis, she has explored different mechanisms through which international trade affects gender wage inequality.
She has also addressed questions related to informal employment and gender differences in labour outcomes.
More recently, she started to investigate how digitalisation and new work arrangements such as working-from-home affect employment and wage inequality in the labour market.
Prior joining ZEW, she worked at the Department of Economics of Sciences Po Paris.
After graduating, she worked as an intern at the OECD.
She studied economics at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, the University Carlos III Madrid, and the University Paris 1 – Paris School of Economics.
She holds a PhD from Aix-Marseille University and received the university’s 2013 PhD Thesis Prize.