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Dr Basha Vicari

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Professional background

Basha Vicari has been a senior researcher in the “Education, Training, and Employment over the Life Course (BQE)” department at IAB since 2017. She has been Head of the "Statistics and Urban Research" department at the City of Erlangen since June 2024.

After obtaining her degree in social economics from Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, she held the position of a research assistant at the Chair of Sociology and Empirical Research at FAU from 2009 to 2012. Between 2010 and 2015, she was a scholarship holder in the joint graduate program (GradAB) of the IAB and the Department of Economics at FAU. In 2012, she joined the IAB as a research assistant in the research group "Occupational Labor Markets". In 2017, she completed her doctorate on the topic of "The importance of occupations for job change." From 2018 to 2024, she led the project group "National Educational Panel Study (NEPS): Education in adulthood and lifelong learning" in the BQE department. During the same period, Basha Vicari was a board member of the "Research Initiative Occupations and Social Inequality (FiBus)."

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