Director of the Institute for Employment Research (IAB)
Undergraduate study at the Universities of Tübingen, Strasbourg, and Constance. In 1981, was awarded a Doctor’s Degree in Social Science, in 1990 received his Habilitation from the Department of Economics and Statistics at the University of Constance. Worked as Research Employee on a German Research Association project on the econometrics of quantity rationing models (new macroeconomics), University Assistant at the University of Constance, and held various teaching posts at the University of St. Gallen. In 1991 he was appointed to a C3 Professorship in Economics at the University of Regensburg, in winter semester 1994/95 held a post as substitute C4 Professor of Economics, particularly macroeconomic theory, at the Ernst Moritz Arndt University in Greifswald, in 1996 appointed to a C4 Professorship in Economics at the University of Regensburg. Since October 2007 he has been director of the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) of the Federal Employment Agency (BA).
He was an elected member of the Executive Committee of the European Association of Labour Economists (EALE), member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute of Employment Research (IAB) in Nuremberg, and Chair of the Council of the Europaeum Center for East-West Studies at the University of Regensburg. He was a Research Fellow at the HWWA (Hamburg) and Associate Editor of the journal Empirical Economics. From 2004 to 2008 he was the elected Chair of the Committee for Regional Theory and Policy in the Verein für Socialpolitik, he was Dean of the Faculty of Economics and member of the extended Senate of the University of Regensburg, coordinator through the Erasmus– Mundus Program of the EU–funded Joint European Master in Comparative Local Development (CoDe) in Regensburg (together with the Universities of Trento, Budapest (Corvinus) and Ljubljana, and Director of the East European Institute in Munich.
Research Areas: political attitudes, political behavior, political economy, political methodology.
