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Profilbild von Professor Jörg Drechsler (IAB)

Professor Jörg Drechsler

Functions at the IAB

Professional background

Jörg Drechsler studied piano at the Nuremberg University of Music from 1999 to 2004 and economics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg from 2001 to 2006.

He has been a research assistant at the IAB since 2006. He received his doctorate from Otto Friedrich University in Bamberg in 2009 and his habilitation in statistics from Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich in 2015. From 2016, he was an adjunct assistant professor, and since 2020, he has been an associate research professor in the Joint Program in Survey Methodology at the University of Maryland, USA. From 2018 to 2024, he also held an honorary professorship at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Mannheim.

Since 2024 Jörg Drechsler is Head of the Research Department “Statistical Methods” at the IAB and also holds the Chair of Statistics with Focus on Data Collection and Data Science in Labor Market Research at the Department of Statistics at LMU Munich.

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