Hande Inanc

Hande Inanc is a sociologist with a passion for using data and evidence to improve labor market outcomes. Her work focuses on understanding and measuring employment quality, identifying its determinants, and helping inform programs and policies to improve quality of jobs.

At Mathematica, Inanc has led several initiatives, sponsored by federal agencies and foundations, that provide user-friendly labor market data tools and resources for jobseekers, employment service providers, and policymakers to support evidence-based decision making. She led the development of the Promising Occupations website—a research-based and practitioner-informed career exploration tool to assist low-wage jobseekers find family sustaining jobs. To monitor youth unemployment during the COVID-19 pandemic, she led the creation of a publicly available and timely data series, along with a data visualization tool that tracked youth unemployment rates across different geographic areas over time.

Before joining Mathematica in 2017, Inanc was a researcher at the Statistics Directorate of the OECD, an intergovernmental think tank, where she authored the Guidelines for Measuring the Quality of the Working Environment, and was instrumental in developing the organization’s Job Quality Framework and database. Previously, as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford, she investigated the changing job quality in the aftermath of the economic crisis of 2008.

Inanc’s work has been published widely in prominent peer-reviewed journals and received media mentions from outlets such as the Washington Post and the Weeds podcast. She has a D.Phil. (Ph.D.) in sociology from the University of Oxford.