Abdurrahman Aydemir

Full Professor of Economics, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Sabanci University

Abdurrahman B. Aydemir (m.) is a Full Professor of economics at Sabancı University. He is also a Research Fellow in CreAM (UCL) and ERF, and research affiliate at IZA. Formerly, he held a senior economist position at Statistics Canada (2002-2007) and worked as a research associate at the Social Research and Demonstration Corporation (2001-2002). He received his Ph.D. degree in economics from the University of Western Ontario in 2003. Dr. Aydemir’s research focuses on immigration, education, and intergenerational mobility. In the area of immigration his research covers economic integration of immigrants, economic consequences of immigration, and effects of immigration policy regimes. Dr. Aydemir is a recipient of Turkish Academy of Sciences Outstanding Young Scientists Award (2009). He has received numerous research grants from national and international institutions and his papers received best paper awards in conferences. Dr. Aydemir worked as a consultant for European Commission, UNWFP, several national public institutions and he is currently designated as a spokesperson on economics of immigration, immigration policy, education, intergenerational mobility for IZA World of Labor. He has published his research in leading international journals including Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Labor Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, European Economic Review.