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I am the Head of the Research Department "Education and Employment over the Life Course" at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) since February 2009.
I studied economics at the Universities of Bamberg, Germany, and Jyväskylä, Finland. I received a Diploma (M.Sc. equiv.) in 1998 and a Ph.D. in economics at the University of Bamberg in 2004 for my dissertation "Do Catholic women with non-smoking husbands earn less in a second job? - Assorted topics in empirical labor economics" (supervised by Johannes Schwarze). I worked as research assistant to John Komlos at the University of Munich in Winter 2003-04 and as post-doctoral research fellow at the Austrian Institute for Family Studies, Vienna, from 2004 to 2005. Before joining the IAB, I was assistant professor at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (chair of Regina T. Riphahn) from October 2005 to January 2009.
My current research focuses on the returns to education as well as on the formation of and the returns to cognitive and non-cognitive skills. My work has been published in journals including Labour Economics, Economics Letters, Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, Applied Economics Letters, Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, and Journal of Socio-Economics.
I am a member of the Ausschuss für Bevölkerungsökonomik of the German Economic Association (Verein für Socialpolitik)and a research associate of the Labor and Socio-Economic Research Center (LASER) within the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.