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Profilbild von PD Dr Brigitte Schels (IAB)

PD Dr Brigitte Schels

Functions at the IAB

Professional background

Brigitte Schels attended the Economics and Social Sciences Faculty of the Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU)to study social sciences.
She received her doctoral degree from the University of Mannheim in 2012. From 2011 to 2015, she was active as a researcher at the Chair of Sociology and Empirical Research at the Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU). From 2015 to 2023, Brigitte Schels was an Assistant Professor for Labour Market Sociology at the FAU. In 2020 and 2021, she has been a visiting professor for Social Stratification and Quantitative Methods at the University of Vienna.
She has been a member of IAB's research staff since September 2005.

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