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PhD Supervisors

Potential dissertation supervisors at the FAU/IAB (professors, junior professors, private lecturer)

Professor Martin Abraham

University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Chair of Sociology and Empirical Social Research

Discipline: Sociology

Research field /-interest:

  • Labour market, economic and organisational sociology
  • Family and household
  • Social structure
  • Methods of empirical social research and sociological theories

Professor Silke Anger

University of Bamberg and IAB, Research Department "Education, Training and Employment over the Life Course"

Discipline: Economics

Research field /-interest:

  • Labour market economics and economics of education
  • Empirical microeconomics

Professor Uwe Blien

University of Bamberg and IAB, Research Department "Regional Labour Markets"

Discipline: Economics     

Research field /-interest:

  • Labour market policy
  • Impact of the structural change on the labour market
  • Institution analyses 

Professor Herbert Brücker

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and IAB, Research Department "Migration and International Labour Studies"

Discipline: Economics         

Research field /-interest:

  • International migration
  • European integration

Professor Thiess Büttner

University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Chair of Public Finance

Discipline: Economics

Research field /-interest:

  • Tax competition
  • Fiscal federalism
  • Site selection
  • Taxation theory

Professor Wolfgang Dauth 

University of Bamberg and IAB, Research Department "Regional Labour Markets"

Discipline: Economics     

Research field /-interest:

Empirical regional and foreign trade research

PD Dr Hermann Gartner

University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and IAB, Research Department "Labour Market Processes and Institutions"

Discipline: Economics  

Research field /-interest:

  • Macroeconomic labour market issues from microeconomic perspective
  • Wage development
  • Search and matching theories, hiring process

Professor Britta Gehrke

University of Rostock, Department of Economics

Discipline: Economics

Research field /-interest:

  • Applied macroeconomics
  • Search und matching
  • DSGE models
  • Macroeconometrics

Professor Veronika Grimm

University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Chair of Economic Theory

Economics

Research field /-interest:

  • Applied game theory
  • Industrial economics, auction theory, market design
  • Experimental and behavioural economics
  • Energy economics

Professor Nicole Gürtzgen

University of Regensburg and IAB, Research Department "Labour Market Processes and Institutions"

Discipline: Economics

Research field /-interest:

  • Applied microeconometrics
  • Effect of labour market insitutions on wage and employment Dynamics

Professor Elke Jahn

University of Bayreuth and IAB, Research Department "Active Labour Market Policies and Integration"

Discipline: Economics

Research field /-interest:

  • Flexible employment relationships
  • International migration
  • Search theory
  • Applied microeconomics

Professor Ingo Klein

University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Chair of Statistics and Econometrics

Discipline: Statistics

Research field /-interest:

  • Fundamental questions of measurement and statistics
  • Methods of robust and non-parametric statistics
  • Financial market data and market research data

Professor Frauke Kreuter 

Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Chair of Statistics and Data Science in Social Sciences and the Humanities

Discipline: Survey methodology

Research field /-interest:

Empirical methods

PD Dr Gerhard Krug

University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and IAB, Research Department "Joblessness and Social Inclusion"

Discipline: Sociology

Research field /-interest:

  • Labour market sociology
  • Sociology of health
  • Sociological network research
  • Methods of empirical social research

Professor Christian Merkl

University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Chair of Macroeconomics

Discipline: Economics     

Research field /-interest:

  • Financial and fiscal policy
  • Macroeconomic labour market analyses

Professor (em.) Joachim Möller

University of Regensburg and former Director of the IAB

Discipline: Economics

Research field /-interest:

  • Regional and labour market economics
  • Empirical macroeconomics and applied econometrics
  • Economic east-west relations

Professor Annekatrin Niebuhr

Kiel University and IAB, Research Department "Regional Research Network"

Discipline: Economics

Research field /-interest:

  • Regional aspects of migration
  • Economic effects of cultural diversity

Professor Markus Promberger

University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and IAB, Research Department "Joblessness and Social Inclusion"

Discipline: Sociology    

Research field /-interest:

  • Sociology of work and organisation
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Social policy

Professor Johannes Rincke

University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Chair of Economic Policy

Discipline: Econometrics

Research field /-interest:

  • Public finance
  • Behavioural economics
  • Experimental economic research

Professor Regina T. Riphahn

University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Chair of Empirical Economics

Discipline: Economics

Research field /-interest:

  • Applied microeconomics
  • Social policy
  • Personnel, labour market, health und population economics

Professor Joseph Sakshaug

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and IAB, Research Department "Statistical Methods" (KEM)

Discipline: Survey methodology

Research field /-interest:

  • Survey methodology
  • Empirical methods

Jun.-Professor Brigitte Schels

University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and IAB, Research Department "Joblessness and Social Inclusion"

Discipline: Sociology

Research field /-interest:

  • Social inequality on the labour market
  • Poverty
  • School-to-work transition
  • Choice of occupation and education aspirations

Professor Claus Schnabel

University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Chair of Labour Market Policy and Regional Policy

Discipline: Economic

Research field /-interest:

  • Labour market economics
  • Labour relations
  • Economic policy

Professor Gesine Stephan

University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and IAB, Research Department "Active Labour Market Policies and Integration"

Discipline: Economics

Research field /-interest:

  • Microeconometric labour market research
  • Evaluation of measures of active labour market policy

Professor Harald Tauchmann

University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Professorship for Health Economics

Discipline: Economics

Research field /-interest:

  • Applied econometrics
  • Empirical health economics

Professor Mark Trappmann

University of Bamberg and IAB, Research Department "Panel Labour Market and Social Security"

Discipline: Survey methodology

Research field /-interest:

  • Survey methodology
  • Methods of empirical social research

Professor Enzo Weber

University of Regensburg and IAB, Research Department "Forecasts and Macroeconomic Analyses"

Discipline: Economics

Research field /-interest:

  • Empirical macroeconomics
  • Macroeconomic labour market trends
  • Labour market dynamics / institutions / policy
  • Forecast

PD Dr Joachim Wolff

Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich and IAB, Research Department "Basic Income Support and Activation"

Discipline: Economics

Research field /-interest:

  • Duration of joblessness
  • Passive and active labour market policy
  • Evaluation of measures of active labour market policy
  • Job mobility

Professor Matthias Wrede

University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Chair of Economics and Social Policy

Discipline: Economics

Research field /-interest:

  • Tax compliance
  • Regional living conditions and production conditions
  • Modelling of urban structures

Associated professors at the IAB

Professor Hans-Dieter Gerner

Nuremberg Tech and IAB, Research Department "Establishments and Employment"

Discipline: Economics     

Research field /-interest:

Operational employment dynamics

Professor Corinna Kleinert

University of Bamberg and IAB, Research Department "Education, Training and Employment over the Life Course"

Discipline: Sociology 

Research field /-interest:

Longitudinal educational reasearch

Professor Aderonke Osikominu

University of Hohenheim and IAB, Research Group of the Director

Discipline: Economics

Research field /-interest:

  • Applied econometrics
  • Labour market economics and economics of education
  • Programme Evaluation

Jun.-Professor Malte Reichelt  

New York University Abu Dhabi and IAB, Research Department "Education, Training and Employment over the Life Course"

Discipline: Sociology

Research field /-interest:

  • Labour market sociology
  • Technological change
  • Professional and regional mobility
  • Sociological network research
  • Methods of empirical social Research

Professor Uta Schönberg

University College London and IAB, Research Group of the Director

Discipline: Economics    

Research field /-interest:

  • Labour market economics
  • Applied microeconomics

Professor Alexandra Spitz-Oener

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and IAB, Research Group of the Director

Discipline: Economics

Research field /-interest:

  • Labour market economics
  • Applied microeconomics