# Andreas Steinmayr

> Andreas Steinmayr is Professor of Empirical Economics at the University of Innsbruck. A labor economist, he studies migration and integration, labor-market policy, and education and health decisions, using administrative data, natural experiments and field experiments.

Professor of Empirical Economics, Department of Public Finance, Faculty of Economics and Statistics, University of Innsbruck.
Research areas: Labor Economics; Economics of Migration; Political Economy; Economics of Education; Applied Econometrics and Causal Inference.
Affiliations: Research Fellow, IZA Institute of Labor Economics; Research Fellow, Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), UCL; Research Fellow, Rockwool Foundation Berlin; Faculty Affiliate, Immigration Policy Lab (Stanford/Zurich); Research Network Affiliate, CESifo.

## Pages

- [Homepage](https://www.andreassteinmayr.net/): bio, news, upcoming talks, contact
- [Research](https://www.andreassteinmayr.net/research/): all publications, working papers, policy writing
- [Policy & Media](https://www.andreassteinmayr.net/policy-media/): policy work, advisory roles, media
- [Talks](https://www.andreassteinmayr.net/talks/), [Teaching](https://www.andreassteinmayr.net/teaching/), [CV (PDF)](https://www.andreassteinmayr.net/cv/Steinmayr_CV.pdf)
- [Complete record for LLMs](https://www.andreassteinmayr.net/llms-full.txt)

## Selected publications

- [Picture This: Social Distance and the Mistreatment of Migrant Workers](https://www.andreassteinmayr.net/research/picture-this/): Toman Barsbai, Vojtěch Bartoš, Victoria Licuanan, Andreas Steinmayr, Erwin Tiongson and Dean Yang. Picture This: Social Distance and the Mistreatment of Migrant Workers. Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics, 2026, 4(2): 547–582. https://doi.org/10.1086/736930 We experimentally study an intervention to reduce mistreatment of Filipino overseas domestic workers (DWs) by their employers. Encouraging DWs to show their employers a family photo while providing a small gift when starting employment reduced DW mistreatment, increased their job satisfaction, and increased the likelihood of contract extension.
- [Immigrating into a Recession: Evidence from Family Migrants to the United States](https://www.andreassteinmayr.net/research/immigrating-into-a-recession/): Toman Barsbai, Andreas Steinmayr and Christoph Winter. Immigrating into a Recession: Evidence from Family Migrants to the United States. Journal of Labor Economics, 2025, 43(3): 843–883. https://doi.org/10.1086/730121 We analyze the impact of economic conditions at arrival on the economic integration of family-sponsored migrants in the United States. A 1 percentage point higher unemployment rate at arrival decreases annual wage income by 4% in the short run and 2% in the longer run.
- [Information and Immigrant Settlement](https://www.andreassteinmayr.net/research/information-and-immigrant-settlement/): Toman Barsbai, Victoria Licuanan, Andreas Steinmayr, Erwin Tiongson and Dean Yang. Information and Immigrant Settlement. Journal of Development Economics, 2024, 170: 103305. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103305 S. settlement for new Filipino immigrants.
- [Contact versus Exposure: Refugee Presence and Voting for the Far Right](https://www.andreassteinmayr.net/research/contact-versus-exposure/): Andreas Steinmayr. Contact versus Exposure: Refugee Presence and Voting for the Far Right. The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2021, 103(2): 310–327. https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_00922 This paper investigates how different forms of exposure to refugees affect voting for Far Right parties. I study the state of Upper Austria where many municipalities hosted asylum seekers and also experienced a massive flow of refugees crossing into Germany in 2015.
- [The Effect of Labor Migration on the Diffusion of Democracy: Evidence from a Former Soviet Republic](https://www.andreassteinmayr.net/research/labor-migration-democracy/): Toman Barsbai, Hillel Rapoport, Andreas Steinmayr and Christoph Trebesch. The Effect of Labor Migration on the Diffusion of Democracy: Evidence from a Former Soviet Republic. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2017, 9(3): 36–69. https://doi.org/10.1257/app.20150517 Migration contributes to the circulation of goods, knowledge, and ideas. Using community and individual-level data from Moldova, we show that the emigration wave that started in the aftermath of the Russian crisis of 1998 strongly affected electoral outcomes and political preferences in Moldova during the following decade, eventually contributing to the fall of the last Communist government in Europe.

## Working papers

- [Opportunities or Benefits: Local Conditions and Refugee Labor Market Integration](https://www.andreassteinmayr.net/research/opportunities-or-benefits/): Katia Gallegos Torres, Andreas Steinmayr and Valentin Wett. Opportunities or Benefits: Local Conditions and Refugee Labor Market Integration. RFBerlin Discussion Paper 232/26, 2026.
- [The Wage Penalty of Regional Accents](https://www.andreassteinmayr.net/research/wage-penalty-regional-accents/): Jeffrey Grogger, Andreas Steinmayr and Joachim Winter. The Wage Penalty of Regional Accents. NBER Working Paper 26719, 2020. https://doi.org/10.3386/w26719
- [When a Random Sample Is Not Random: Bounds on the Effects of Migration on Household Members Left Behind](https://www.andreassteinmayr.net/research/random-sample-not-random/): Andreas Steinmayr. When a Random Sample Is Not Random: Bounds on the Effects of Migration on Household Members Left Behind. Kiel Working Paper 1975, 2017.

## Policy writing (selection)

- [Migrationspolitik durch Integrationspolitik? Politische Rationalität, ökonomische Kosten und der Bedarf an evidenzbasierter Politik](https://www.andreassteinmayr.net/research/migrationspolitik-durch-integrationspolitik/): Andreas Steinmayr. Migrationspolitik durch Integrationspolitik? Politische Rationalität, ökonomische Kosten und der Bedarf an evidenzbasierter Politik. Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik, 2026, 75(1): 43–49. https://doi.org/10.1515/zfwp-2026-2003
- [Registerdaten für bessere Entscheidungen. Neue Wege für eine evidenzbasierte Sicherheits-, Migrations- und Integrationspolitik](https://www.andreassteinmayr.net/research/registerdaten-siak/): Andreas Steinmayr. Registerdaten für bessere Entscheidungen. Neue Wege für eine evidenzbasierte Sicherheits-, Migrations- und Integrationspolitik. SIAK-Journal − Zeitschrift für Polizeiwissenschaft und polizeiliche Praxis, 2025, 4–12. https://doi.org/10.7396/2025_2_A
- [Herausforderungen und Chancen der Arbeitsmarktintegration ukrainischer Vertriebener in Österreich](https://www.andreassteinmayr.net/research/ifo-ukraine-2024/): Andreas Steinmayr, Dominik Duell and Valentin Wett. Herausforderungen und Chancen der Arbeitsmarktintegration ukrainischer Vertriebener in Österreich. ifo Schnelldienst, 2024, 77(10): 31–35.
- [Arbeitsmarktintegration von ukrainischen Vertriebenen – mit besonderem Schwerpunkt auf Frauen](https://www.andreassteinmayr.net/research/ams-ukraine-report-2024/): Andreas Steinmayr, Sarah Berens, Dominik Duell and Valentin Wett. Arbeitsmarktintegration von ukrainischen Vertriebenen – mit besonderem Schwerpunkt auf Frauen. Arbeitsmarktservice Österreich (AMS), 2024.
- [Menschlich, fair und akzeptiert – Ideen für die Zukunft des europäischen Asylsystems](https://www.andreassteinmayr.net/research/ifo-asylsystem-2023/): Andreas Steinmayr. Menschlich, fair und akzeptiert – Ideen für die Zukunft des europäischen Asylsystems. ifo Schnelldienst, 2023, 76(10): 20–24.
- [Was wir aus dem großen Flüchtlingsjahr 2015 lernen können](https://www.andreassteinmayr.net/research/fluechtlingsjahr-2015/): Dominik Hangartner, Judith Spirig and Andreas Steinmayr. Was wir aus dem großen Flüchtlingsjahr 2015 lernen können. In: So schaffen wir das. Wie wir das Thema Asyl & Migration dem linken und rechten Rand abnehmen und die Krise überwinden (eds. Othmar Karas and Judith Kohlenberger). Wien: edition a, 2023, pp. 271–282.

## Profiles

- [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2491-5032)
- [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2491-5032)
- [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=0xYQ9IUAAAAJ)
- [RePEc / IDEAS](https://ideas.repec.org/f/pst421.html)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q59704163)
- [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5064225546)
- [Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/andreassteinmayr.net)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreas-steinmayr-05750282/)
- [University of Innsbruck profile](https://www.uibk.ac.at/de/universitaet/gemeinsam/andreas-steinmayr/)
- [University of Innsbruck](https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/publicfinance/staff/andreas-steinmayr_e/)
- [IZA](https://www.iza.org/person/7414/andreas-steinmayr)
- [CESifo](https://www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/network-member/steinmayr-andreas)
- [CReAM](https://www.cream-migration.org/peopledetail.htm?person=1863)
- [Rockwool Foundation Berlin](https://www.rfberlin.com/author/asteinmayr/)
- [Immigration Policy Lab](https://immigrationlab.org/our-team/andreas-steinmayr/)
- [Science Media Center Germany](https://sciencemediacenter.de/en/angebote/forschende/prof-dr-andreas-steinmayr-2dd532c0-f1bb-0bca-8603-fde9a45cbeff)

## Contact

andreas.steinmayr@uibk.ac.at · Universitätsstraße 15, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria