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Professor Elke Jahn

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Professional background

Elke Jahn is a Distinguished Researcher at the Institute for Employment Research and Professor of Labour Economics at the University of Bayreuth. She completed her PhD in 2001 and her qualification as a professor in 2010 at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg. She was a Visiting Scholar at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University (2006/2007) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2020); from 2007 to 2009 she worked as an Associate Professor at the Aarhus School of Business, University of Aarhus (Denmark). Between 2015 and 2022, she has been a member of the scientific advisory board of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees. Since 2020, she has been a member of the Bavarian Ethics Council.

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