Karim Bekhtiar joined the Institute for Advanced Studies in September 2018 as a Junior Researcher and PhD-Candidate. In January 2024 he obtained his PhD in Economics from the Johannes Kepler University in Linz. Currently he is employed at the IHS as a post-doctoral researcher in the 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 developement 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 focused on the effects of structural change, with a special emphasis on the consequences of automation and globalization.