Biography

Friedrich Poeschel is a Senior Research Fellow (part-time) at the Migration Policy Centre of the EUI. His current work focuses on global skills partnerships as a way of addressing labour shortages, in the context of the Horizon Europe project GS4S, and on migrant employment in key sectors such as health, care and the food supply chain.

Friedrich previously worked as a practitioner informing migration policy-makers. In six years as an economist at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development OECD, he has worked on labour migration, family migration, migration management, integration, emigration and diasporas. He was strongly involved in the OECD’s flagship publication on migration (the “International Migration Outlook”) and several books on specific countries. Friedrich then became a senior analyst at the EU Agency for Asylum, based in Malta. His role in the Situational Awareness Unit required identifying and analysing trends in asylum migration to the EU, continually published in the “Latest Asylum Trends”.

With a thesis on labour markets, Friedrich earned a doctorate in economics from the University of Oxford. He also holds a Bachelor's degree with First Class Honours from the London School of Economics and an M.Phil. in economics from the University of Oxford. His first research positions were at Tor Vergata University, the Institute for Employment Research (IAB), and as Robert Solow Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ecole Polytechnique.

Fields of expertise

Recent research output

• POESCHEL, Friedrich Gerd (2024), How resilient were essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic?, Working Paper
• BECKERS, Pascal; GHODSI, Mahdi; IVANOVIĆ, Ksenija; LEITNER, Sandra; POESCHEL, Friedrich Gerd; SABOUNIHA, Alireza (2024), Skills-oriented migration in the Western Balkans : linking workers’ migration aspirations to skill shortages in destination and origin countries, Working Paper
• BROBERG, Nikolaj; GONNOT, Jerome; POESCHEL, Friedrich Gerd; RUHS, Martin (2024), Essential work, migrant labour : what explains migrant employment in European key sectors?, Working Paper
• NIVOROZHKIN, Anton; POESCHEL, Friedrich Gerd (2022), Working conditions in essential occupations and the role of migrants, Article
• ANDERSON, Bridget; POESCHEL, Friedrich Gerd; RUHS, Martin (2021), Rethinking labour migration : Covid-19, essential work, and systemic resilience, Article
• NIVOROZHKIN, Anton; POESCHEL, Friedrich Gerd (2021), Working conditions in essential occupations and the role of migrants, Working Paper