Markus Jäntti

Markus Jäntti is Professor of Economics at Abo Akademi University in Turku, Finland and Research Director at the Luxembourg Income Study.

He received his Ph.D. in Economics at Abo Akademi University in 1993 and has been Senior Research Fellow with the Academy of Finland in 1993-2000, Visiting Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan 1996-97 and Professor of Economics at the University of Tampere in 2000-02.

He was Scientific Director at Statistics Finland in 2002-2003, where he worked closely with producers of statistics across most areas where official statistics are produced, including national accounts, enterprise statistics, census-related statistics and those on living conditions.

Jäntti has been a IARIW member since 1992 and has attended, commented and presented papers at several IARIW conferences since. He has been a member of the editorial board of the Review of Income and Wealth since 1994.

As the Research Director at LIS his tasks include advising LIS staff on data harmonisation and research methods, having overall responsibility for data quality and participating in overall project management.

Jäntti conducts research on income and wealth inequality, mobility and poverty, especially in a cross-national perspective. His publications include "Intergenerational Income Mobility in Sweden Compared with the United States" (with Anders Bjorklund), American Economic Review 1997, "Poverty in Advanced Countries" (with Sheldon Danziger), in A.B. Atkinson and F Bourguignon, Handbook of Income Distribution 2000 and "Income inequality and income mobility in the Nordic countries compared to the United States" (with several coauthors), Review of Income and Wealth 2002.