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Functions at the IAB

Professional background

Carola Burkert studied social sciences in Nuremberg and Bath (UK) and proceeded to do her doctorate at the Chair of Statistics and Empirical Economics of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. From 2002 to 2004 she was on the staff of the German Federal Agency for Recognition of Foreign Refugees (economic aspects of migration) and a researcher on the Council of Experts on Immigration and Integration from 2003 to 2004. Dr Burkert has been a member of the research staff of IAB Hessen since 2005 and has headed the working group "Migration und Integration" to the end of 2010.

Activities