Karim Bekhtiar, MSc
- European Governance, Public Finance and Labor Markets
karim.bekhtiar@ihs.ac.at
Applied Microeconomics
Labor Economics
Regional Economics
Political Economy
Distributional Economics

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Karim Bekhtiar joined the Institute for Advanced Studies in September 2018. He holds a Master degree in Economics from the Vienna University of Economics and Business and is currently pursuing his Doctorate in Economics at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz.
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Working Papers
The Decline of Manufacturing Employment and the Rise of the Far-Right in Austria 2023.
IHS Working Paper 50
[Current Version]Robotization, Internal Migration and Rural Decline 2022,
IHS Working Paper 41
[Current Version]
[Non technical presentation (in German)]Robots at Work? Pitfalls of Industry Level Data (with Bittschi, B. & Sellner R.) 2021,
WIFO Working Paper 6
[Current Version]
Revised & Resubmitted to the Journal of Applied EconometricsRisky assets in Europe and the US: risk vulnerability, risk aversion and economic environment (with Fessler, P. & Lindner, P.) 2019,
ECB Working Paper Series 2270Publications
Will the Sustainable Development Goals be fulfilled? Assessing present and future global poverty. (with Crespo-Cuaresma, J., Fengler, W., Kharas, H., Brottrager, M., & Hofer, M.) 2018,
Nature Journals: Palgrave Communications, 4(1), 29.Technologischer Fortschritt und Ungleichheit: eine empirische Analyse der Entwicklung in Österreich 2008-2014 (with Unger, M., Zilian, S., Polt, W., Altzinger, W. & Scheuer, T.) 2017,
Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, Band 43 (3), pp. 405-437Other Work
Evaluation des Sozialbetrugsbekämpfungsgesetzes: Sozialbetrug durch Scheinunternehmen im Bauwesen (with Titelbach, G.) 2021, Studie im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Arbeit.
Mobilität und Persistenz im Niedriglohnsektor (with Titelbach, G.) 2019,
Studie des Instituts für Höhere Studien, gefördert aus Mitteln des Bundesministeriums für Arbeit, Soziales und Konsumentenschutz