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Heiko Stüber

Professor Dr Heiko Stüber

Professor of Economics, Division of Labor Economics

University of Applied Labour Studies (UALS)

Professional career and research topics

After graduating from high school and completing military service, Heiko Stüber studied industrial engineering (Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen) at the Technische Universität Kaiserslautern and received his doctorate in economics from the Universität Hohenheim in 2012 with a dissertation on downward nominal wage rigidity. He received his venia legend for economics and econometrics at the Friedrich-Alexander- Universität Erlangen-Nurnberg (FAU) in 2021.

From 2007 to 2010, he worked for the Leibniz Universität Hannover and was a stipendiary of the joint graduate programme (GradAB) of the IAB and the School of Business and Economics of the FAU from 2008 to 2011. From 2010 to 2023 he worked for the IAB and in parallel from 2015 to 2020 for the FAU.

Heiko Stüber has been Professor of Labor Economics at the University of Applied Labour Studies (ULAS) since 2023.

In 2023, Heiko Stüber was appointed Research Fellow of IAB.

His research focuses on the cyclicality of wages and employment as well as the relationships between wage rigidity, inflation and unemployment.

Heiko Stüber has published the results of his research in various renowned journals such as the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Journal of Labor Economics, the Economic Journal, the Review of Economics and Statistics, and the European Economic Review.

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