Francesca Fabbri is assistant professor at the Department of Economics at the University of Munich since January 2007.

Her main research interest is in applied labour economics, focusing on immigration, racial intolerance, education, and labour demand.

Between 2004 and 2006 she was post-doctoral fellow at the Munich Graduate School of Economics.
She received her PhD in Economics in 2004 from University College London. Her thesis is on “Immigrants' Performance, Welfare and Reception: An Economic Analysis for the UK”. Between 2001 and 2002 she was co-investigator in research for the British Home Office on the labour market performance of immigrants and the impact of migration on local labour markets in Britain. In 2001, she also received the Frederick-Bonnart-Braunthal Scholarship for her studies into the determinants of racial intolerance in Britain.

She has several publications in books and journals, including the Economic Journal and the Journal of the European Economic Association and has presented her work at several international conferences.
She is also a research fellow at the Institute for the Future of Labor (IZA), Bonn, and research affiliate at CESIfo, Munich.

Francesca is married and has two children. Her other interests include literature, music, cinema, trekking and cycling.