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Professor Markus Promberger

Markus.Promberger@iab.de

Functions at the IAB

Professional background

Markus Promberger heads the Research Department "Joblessness and Social Inclusion" and is an associate professor of Sociology at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg).. He studies economic activity, work, unemployment and poverty from sociological and socio-historical perspectives as well as from the viewpoint of economic anthropology.
Markus Promberger studied Sociology, Political Science and History in Erlangen. From 1990 to 2001, he worked as a researcher and teaching assistant at the Institute for Sociology at FAU and obtained his PhD in 1999. In 2001, Dr. Promberger joined the IAB. He initially worked in the Research Department "Establishments and Employment", and in July 2005, he became Head of the Research Department "Joblessness and Social Inclusion" which was set up that year. After his habilitation and receiving venia legendi for General Sociology at the University of Erlangen in 2011, he deputised for a Chair of Sociology (Education, Organisation and Social Inequality) at LMU Munich (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) during the summer of 2011.
Along with his IAB activities in research and management, since autumn 2017 he has been professor of Sociology at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, where he teaches Labour and Economic Sociology.
Markus Promberger is a member of the German Sociological Association, the German Industrial Relations Association, and the German Association of Socioeconomic Labour Market Research (SAMF), where he was a member of the Board from 2009 to 2010. He is also a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the scientific journal "WSI-Mitteilungen". From 2014 to 2019, Markus Promberger was a research fellow at Berlin Social Science Center (WZB). He is also co-editor of the journal "Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation". From early 2014 to 2019, he was coordinating the EU-funded RESCuE Project, which studied the resilience of vulnerable households in socio-economic crises. Thirty scientists from nine European countries were involved in this interdisciplinary task.
Markus Promberger is currently working on projects on labour migration, on participation effects of employment protection measures, continues to study the resilience of poverty households and advises ministries, institutions and organisations in Germany and Europe.

Activities