Karim Bekhtiar joined the Institute for Advanced Studies in September 2018 as a Junior Researcher and PhD candidate. He received his PhD in Economics from the Johannes Kepler University in Linz in January 2024. Karim is currently employed as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the IHS research group Labor Markets and the World of Work.

His research interests focus on labor economics and applied microeconometrics. He is particularly interested in the structure and development of the labor market, as well as the economic, societal and political consequences of large-scale labor demand shocks. In this area, his past research has focused on the effects of structural change, with a particular emphasis on the consequences of automation and globalization.