He received his Ph.D. in economics from Goteborg University, Sweden, in 1997. Prior to joining the faculty at Concordia, he held a postdoctoral fellowship at University of Montreal, and served as a researcher at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) at the University of Bonn. Jorgen Hansen also holds appointments as research fellow at IZA and research associate at CIRANO and CIREQ. His research has been funded by SSHRC and published in leading economics journals.