Ceren Ozgen

Ceren Ozgen

The Department of Economics
Associate Professor in Economics

Contact details

Telephone
+44 121 414 7290
Email
c.ozgen@bham.ac.uk
Address
Department of Economics
University House
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Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT

Dr Ceren Ozgen is an applied economist who works at the intersection of labour and urban economics. She received the Marie-Sklodowska Curie Fellowship from the European Commission and a is research fellow at IZA. She has published extensively on impact of international migration, firm innovation and economic growth. Her recent research focuses on technological change, skills mismatch, green innovation and green jobs.

She is currently the UoB director of University 麻豆精选 - VU Amsterdam Big Data and Economics Research Network (BVRN). The BVRN is a network of academics at the University 麻豆精选 and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam undertaking data-driven economic analyses of urban, environment, labour and migration-related topics.

Together with her colleagues, she has been awarded an ESRC/UKRI grant, £1,402,000 (2022) for the Diversity and UK Firm Performance project. 

For a full list of publications please read Ceren's CV

Qualifications

PhD. Economics. VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2008-2013.

MSc. Economics.  University of Trento, Italy, 2004-2005.

Biography

2022- Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University 麻豆精选

2019-2022-Lecturer, Department of Economics, University 麻豆精选

2016-2019-Marie-Sklodowska Curie Fellow, Department of Economics and IRiS, University 麻豆精选

2015-2016-Postdoc researcher, Department of Spatial Economics, VU University Amsterdam

2014-2015-Postdoc researcher, Migration Policy Centre, European University Institute Florence 

Spring 2024-Associate Staff, London School of Economics

Spring 2011-Visiting fellow, National Institute of Demographic and Economic Analysis, University of Waikato, New Zealand

Teaching

  • Global Economy – UG 2024
  • Econometrics – UG 2022
  • Advance Quantative Analysis – UG 2021
  • Professional Development – UG 2020, 2022
  • IRiS Spring School on Migration – PG (2019)

Postgraduate supervision

  • Camila Orbegozo (2024-present) Partially funded from the Dept of Economics, Uni 麻豆精选
  • Yuedi Guo (2024-present) Partially funded from the Dept of Economics, Uni 麻豆精选
  • Yihong Zheng (2023-present)
  • Wenjing Kuai (2018-2021), Fully funded by the Chinese Government and UoB. Graduated. Placement in The University of Tokyo.  
  • Hiromi Yumoto (2019-2022), Fully funded by the Japanese Government and the World Bank. Placement in University of Essex.

Research

Labour economics (Innovation, technological change, skills, green jobs, international migration)

Urban economics (Cities and technology, diversity and innovation, urban theory, BIG data).

Other activities

Professional Affilations

  • Director of Big Data & Economics Research Network (BVRN), 2022 - present.
  • Scientific Committee member to European Centre of Expertise (ECE), 2024-present.
  • Member of ESRC Peer Review Committee College, 2024 - present.
  • Member of Royal Economic Society Peer Learning Sets Facilitator, 2024 - present.
  • IZA Research Fellow, European Association of Labour Economists, Global Labour Organisation Fellow (GLO), Tinbergen Institute Alumni, Urban Economics Association, Member of European Regional Science Association (Dutch section).

Research Impact

  • Invited speaker for Battle of Ideas 2019, “Migration and Depopulation in Twenty-First-Century Europe” Session, Birmingham.
  • Invited speaker for Keynote Session at 11th IMISCOE Conference, Immigration, Social Cohesion & Social Innovation, Madrid 2014 (IMISCOE is the largest European network of scholars in the area of migration with 56 member institutes and over 1000 scholars).
  • External reviewer for Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR), doctoral funding scheme PRIDE 2019.
  • External reviewer for annual BSF competition for research grants, United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation, 2018.
  • External reviewer for Singapore Ministry of Education Social Science Research Thematic Grants, 2017.
  • External reviewer for Social Sciences and Humanities Section, Research Council of Canada for Insight Grants, 2014.
  • Advisory group member and External reviewer for Council of Europe, Directorate of Democratic Governance, Culture and Diversity, 2014.

Publications

Highlight publications

Acemoglu, D, Koster, HRA & Ozgen, C 2023 '' NBER working paper series, no. 31009, National Bureau of Economic Research.

Koster, HRA & Ozgen, C 2021, '', Journal of Urban Economics, vol. 126, 103386.

Recent publications

Article

Elliott, R, Maddison, D, Kuai, W & Ozgen, C 2024, '', Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, vol. 127, 103015.

Lui-Farrer, G, Green, A, Ozgen, C & Cole, M 2023, '', Asian and Pacific Migration Journal.

Ozgen, C 2021, '', Journal of Economic Surveys, vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 1168-1216.

Cole, M, Ozgen, C & Strobl, E 2020, '', Environmental and Resource Economics, vol. 76, no. 4, pp. 581鈥�610.

Carmichael, F, Darko, C, Ercolani, M, Ozgen, C & Siebert, S 2020, '', Economics Letters, vol. 189, 108996.

Ozgen, C 2017, '', Papers in Regional Science, pp. 29-49.

Ozgen, C, Peters, C, Niebuhr, A, Nijkamp, P & Poot, J 2014, '', International Migration Review, vol. 48, no. Supplement 1, 12138, pp. S377-S416. <>

Ozgen, C, Nijkamp, P & Poot, J 2013, '', IZA: Journal of Migration, vol. 2, no. 18, 18(2013). <>

Ozgen, C, Nijkamp, P & Poot, J 2010, '', Papers in Regional Science, vol. 89. <>

Chapter (peer-reviewed)

de Graaff, T, Arribas-Bel, D & Ozgen, C 2017, . in Modelling Aging and Migration Effects on Spatial Labor Markets. Springer Verlag.

Ozgen, C, Nijkamp, P & Poot, J 2012, . in Immigration and Innovation in European Regions. In Migration Impact Assessment: New Horizons. <>

Working paper

Elliott, R, Kuai, W, Ozgen, C & Maddison, D 2021 '' IZA Discussion Paper Series, no. 14028, IZA 鈥� Institute of Labor Economics, pp. 1-69. <>

Darko, C, Carmichael, F, Ercolani, M, Siebert, S & Ozgen, C 2019 '' IZA 鈥� Institute of Labor Economics. <>

Expertise

  • Articles purely on my research have appeared in: The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, The Times, The Conversation, The Irish Times, The 'I', Público (Portugese national newspaper), Algemeen Dagblad and NL Times (Dutch national newspapers).
  • TV networks on which my research has been discussed: MSNBC (USA TV channel), ORF (Austrian National TV channel), Brabant news (local Dutch TV channel).
  • Online science media articles explicitly on my research: , (40 million readers worldwide), French online media , The World Economic Forum, TheScientist, Scientias, Bnnvara/Zembla (Reputable investigative journalism), Transform, Respro® Bulletin Board, Heidi News (Swiss science media).
  • ‘’ In Migration, displacement and diversity: The IRiS anthology., 177-182 (withM Cole, H Yumoto).
  • ‘Immigration and Firm Innovation in Western-Europe: Understanding the Channels of Influence’, Migration Policy Centre, European University Institute, Florence. Policy Brief, No. 2015/01.
  • ‘Meer innovatie door buitenlanders?! (More innovation by foreigners?!)’, Report released by Panteia Netherlands (an organization for policy research & consultancy) in 2012.
  • Evidence Briefing on Immigration and innovation in European regions prepared for the UK’s ESRC presented to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, 2011.
  • Research covered in The Wall Street Journal Blogs (Real Time Economics) titled “McDonald’s Economics”, May 12th, 2011
  • Research report on "Migration Impact Assessment: An Overview, Tentative Findings and a Framework", Commissioned by FORUM (Utrecht), 2009, (with Peter Nijkamp, Tüzin Baycan-Levent, Masood Gheasi, Simonetta Longhi, Enno Masurel, Jacques Poot, Mediha Sahin)

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