Rudolf Winter-Ebmer (born 1961 in Steyr, Austria)^[1] is an Austrian economist and professor of labor economics at Johannes Kepler University Linz, where he is also chair of the department of economics. He is also a senior fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna, Austria.^[2][3] Since 2011, he has also been associate editor of the Institute's official journal, Empirical Economics.^[4] He has been heading a Christian-Doppler Laboratory of "Ageing, Health and the Labor Market" at the Johannes-Kepler-University of Linz 2014-2021. He is a member of the German Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina) and a former President of the European Society for Population Economics. 2021-22, he was President of the Austrian Economic Association (NOEG).

Rudolf Winter-Ebmer initiated the Austrian part of the SHARE survey (Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe) [1] in 2001 - the largest socio-economic project in the European Union and co-initiated the Austrian Socio-Economic Panel (ASEP), [2] 2023.

His reseach concentrates on empirical labor economics, wage determination, migration, ageing, gender economics, unemployment and the analysis of price comparison sites.