1. Why are you studying inequality?
I’m interested in people’s perceptions of inequality, their behavioural reactions to it, and how these reactions may vary by context.
2. What are you working on?
Together the with several colleagues, from within and outside the Cluster, we study how people perceive the gender pay gap depending on different personal and organisational circumstances.
3. How did you end up here?
Since my early student years I liked academia so much that I always wanted to remain there. I joined the Cluster to benefit from the network and support it provides, as well as to be able to do some public good for the University.
4. Dream research project?
I would like to do research in why people procrastinate (I do a lot, and it’s annoying) and how procrastination affects personal outcomes and the wider society.
Prof. Nick Zubanov, PhD is a Professor at the Department of Economics at the University of Konstanz. He is a PI at the Cluster of Excellence "The Politics of Inequality", where he also leads the Cluster project "Perceptions of Gender and Seniority Wage Inequality and Individual Behavioral Reactions in the Organizational Context". His research interests include labour and personnel economics, context-specific performance effects of management practices and practices regulating the provision of incentives and communications within firms.