Professor of Economics at Freie Universität Berlin, Chair of Empircal Economics and Economic Policy (since 2002); Habilitation in Economics and Econometrics, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt / Main; Research interests: Empirical Public Economics and Social Policy
Previous Employment: 1990 – 2001 Senior Researcher and Head of Department Labour Markets and Social Insurance ZEW Mannheim; Temporary Professorships at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt / Main (Social Policy) and Universität Saarbrücken (Public Economics); 2001 – 2002 Professor of Labour and Social Policy at LUM Munich and Research Director cesifo; 2002 – 2010 Director Public Economics DIW Berlin
