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Professor Lutz Bellmann

Lutz.Bellmann@iab.de
+49 (911) 179 - 3046
+49 911 179 - 3736

Functions at the IAB

Professional background

Lutz Bellmann was Head of the Research Department “Establishments and Employment” (2000-2021), Full Professor of Economics, in particular Labour Economics, at the Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (2009-2021) and Professor at the Nikolaus-Copernicus-University Faculty of Economic Sciences and Management in Torun  (2022-2024).

He took charge of the IAB-Establishment Panel for 25 years and in 2020/2021 also of the IAB-Study “Estabishments during the Covid-19 Crisis”. 

He completed his degree (MA) in economics 1980, earned his doctorate in economics in 1985, and received his habilitation in economics at the Leibniz University Hannover in 2004. 

He worked as a lecturer at the universities of Bamberg, Basle, Cologne, Erlangen-Nuremberg, Hanover, Passau, Speyer, Trier, Tübingen and Würzburg. 

He has been employed by the IAB since 1988 and took charge of the IAB Establishment Panel in 1997. and the Survey „ Establishments during the COVID-19 pandemic“. Lutz Bellmann is a research fellow of the Labor and Socio-Economic Research Center (LASER) of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and research fellow of the IZA-Institute of Labor Economics in Bonn. He is a member of several scientific panels. He serves as the Chairman  of the supervisory board of the Institute for Empirical Sociology (IfeS Institut für empirische Soziologie) and Co-Director of the Institute for Liberal Professions (IFB Institut für freie Berufe). He was a member and Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal Institute of Vocational Education and Training (BiBB Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung) in Bonn. 

His research interests cover econometics, labor and education economics, especially apprenticeship and further vocational  training, industrial relations and  linked employer-employee (panel) sureys. He published in international journals such as Industrial Relations, Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, International Journal of Manpower, German Journal of Human Resource Management as well as British Journal of Industrial Relations.

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