Prof. Bernd Fitzenberger, PhD

Chair of Quantitative Labor Economics

Curriculum vitae

Bernd Fitzenberger has been the director of the IAB since September 2019, and Professor of Quantitative Labor Economics at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg since October 2020.

He studied economics, mathematics and statistics at the University of Konstanz in Germany and Stanford University in the USA. In 1993, he graduated from Stanford University with a PhD in Economics. In 1998, he completed his postdoctoral habilitation at the University of Konstanz and was appointed Professor of Economics, esp. Social Policy at TU Dresden. From 1999 to 2004 he held the Chair of Econometrics at the University of Mannheim, from 2004 to 2007 he held the Chair of Economics, esp. Labor Economics, at Goethe University Frankfurt and from 2007 to 2015 the Chair of Statistics and Econometrics at the University of Freiburg. From 2015 to 2020, Bernd Fitzenberger was Professor of Econometrics at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Bernd Fitzenberger is a research fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics in Bonn, at CESifo in Munich and at the Research Center for Education and the Labor Market in Maastricht, as well as an international research affiliate at the Institute for Fiscal Studies in London. In addition, he is the co-editor of the international magazine Labour Economics, associate editor of the international magazine Empirical Economics and a member of the editorial committee of the Journal for Labour Market Research. From 2014-2022 he responsibly coordinated the DFG Priority Program ‘The German Labor Market in a Globalized World: Challenges through Trade, Technology and Demographics’ (SPP 1764).

His main research areas are equality of income and salaries, employment trends, evaluation of measures in the field of labor market and education policy, vocational training and the transition from school to the labor market, employment of mothers, trade unions (binding collective agreements, degree of organisation, salary structures and employment), evaluation methods and methods of quantile regression.

2025

Fitzenberger B., Hiesinger K.:
Policy Evaluation as a Legal Mandate: The Example of the Participation Opportunities Act Politikevaluation als gesetzlicher Auftrag: Das Teilhabechancengesetz als Fallbeispiel
In: Wirtschaftsdienst 105 (2025), p. 450-455
ISSN: 0043-6275
DOI: 10.2478/wd-2025-0114
Fitzenberger B., Kagerl C.:
Labour and Competitiveness in Germany: Embracing the Transformation to Boost Productivity
In: Inter economics 60 (2025), p. 28-33
ISSN: 0020-5346
DOI: 10.2478/ie-2025-0006
Maier EM., Stöcker A., Fitzenberger B., Greven S.:
ADDITIVE DENSITY-ON-SCALAR REGRESSION IN BAYES HILBERT SPACES WITH AN APPLICATION TO GENDER ECONOMICS
In: Annals of Applied Statistics 19 (2025), p. 680-700
ISSN: 1932-6157
DOI: 10.1214/24-AOAS1979

2024

Fitzenberger B., Hiesinger K., Holleitner J.:
Fach- und Arbeitskräftemangel ohne Ende? Was dagegen hilft - und was nicht
In: Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte 74 (2024), p. 4-10
ISSN: 0479-611X
Fitzenberger B., Holleitner J., Kagerl C.:
Challenges for Future Labour Markets Using the German Example Herausforderungen für die Arbeitsmärkte der Zukunft am Beispiel Deutschland
In: Wirtschaftsdienst 104 (2024), p. 519-523
ISSN: 0043-6275
DOI: 10.2478/wd-2024-0137

2022

Fitzenberger B., Koenker R., Machado J., Melly B.:
Economic applications of quantile regression 2.0
In: Empirical Economics 62 (2022)
ISSN: 0377-7332
DOI: 10.1007/s00181-021-02186-1
Fitzenberger B., Osikominu A., Paul M.:
The effects of training incidence and planned training duration on labor market transitions
In: Journal of Econometrics (2022)
ISSN: 0304-4076
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeconom.2022.03.004
Fitzenberger B., de Lazzer J.:
Changing selection into full-time work and its effect on wage inequality in Germany
In: Empirical Economics 62 (2022), p. 247-277
ISSN: 0377-7332
DOI: 10.1007/s00181-021-02098-0
Kagerl C., Schierholz M., Fitzenberger B.:
Later one knows better: the over-reporting of short-time work in firm surveys
In: Journal for Labour Market Research 56 (2022), Article No.: 7
ISSN: 1867-8343
DOI: 10.1186/s12651-022-00312-9

2021

Dustmann C., Fitzenberger B., Zimmermann M.:
Housing Expenditure and Income Inequality
In: Economic Journal (2021)
ISSN: 0013-0133
DOI: 10.1093/ej/ueab097
Emmler J., Fitzenberger B.:
Temporary overpessimism: Job loss expectations following a large negative employment shock
In: Economics of Transition and Institutional Change (2021)
ISSN: 2577-6975
DOI: 10.1111/ecot.12310
Fitzenberger B., Mena G., Nimczik J., Sunde U.:
Personality Traits Across the Life Cycle: Disentangling Age, Period and Cohort Effects*
In: Economic Journal (2021)
ISSN: 0013-0133
DOI: 10.1093/ej/ueab093

2020

Antonczyk D., Fitzenberger B., Mammen E., Yu K.:
A nonparametric approach to identify age, time, and cohort effects
In: Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 204 (2020), p. 96-115
ISSN: 0378-3758
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2019.04.009
Biewen M., Fitzenberger B., Seckler M.:
Counterfactual quantile decompositions with selection correction taking into account Huber/Melly (2015): An application to the German gender wage gap: Counterfactual quantile decompositions with selection correction
In: Labour Economics 67 (2020), Article No.: 101927
ISSN: 0927-5371
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2020.101927
Fitzenberger B., Hillerich-Sigg A., Sprietsma M.:
Different counselors, many options: Career guidance and career plans in secondary schools
In: German Economic Review 21 (2020), p. 65-106
ISSN: 1465-6485
DOI: 10.1515/ger-2019-0027
Fitzenberger B., Jahn E., Oberfichtner M.:
Bessere Absicherung für Gründer!
In: Die Welt, 2020, p. 10
(Zeitungsartikel)
Fitzenberger B., Seidlitz A.:
Die Lohnungleichheit von Vollzeitbeschäftigten in Deutschland: Rückblick und Überblick
In: Wirtschafts- und Sozialstatistisches Archiv 14 (2020), p. 125-143
ISSN: 1863-8155
DOI: 10.1007/s11943-020-00273-w
(Zeitungsartikel)
Fitzenberger B., Seidlitz A.:
The 2011 break in the part-time indicator and the evolution of wage inequality in Germany
In: Journal for Labour Market Research 54 (2020), Article No.: 1
ISSN: 1867-8343
DOI: 10.1186/s12651-019-0265-0

2018

Antonczyk D., DeLeire T., Fitzenberger B.:
Polarization and rising wage inequality: Comparing the U.S. and Germany
In: Econometrics 6 (2018), Article No.: 20
ISSN: 2225-1146
DOI: 10.3390/econometrics6020020
Biewen M., Fitzenberger B., de Lazzer J.:
The role of employment interruptions and part-time work for the rise in wage inequality
In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 7 (2018), Article No.: 10
ISSN: 2193-8997
DOI: 10.1186/s40172-018-0070-y

2017

Doerr A., Fitzenberger B., Kruppe T., Paul M., Strittmatter A.:
Employment and earnings effects of awarding training vouchers in Germany
In: Industrial & Labor Relations Review 70 (2017), p. 767-812
ISSN: 0019-7939
DOI: 10.1177/0019793916660091
Fitzenberger B., Fuchs B.:
The Residency Discount for Rents in Germany and the Tenancy Law Reform Act 2001: Evidence from Quantile Regressions
In: German Economic Review 18 (2017), p. 212-236
ISSN: 1465-6485
DOI: 10.1111/geer.12093

2016

Fitzenberger B., Bonin H., Hillerich A.:
Schule – Berufsausbildung – Arbeitsmarkt: Herausforderungen und Potenziale der ökonomischen Berufsbildungsforschung
In: Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik 17 (2016), p. 208-231
ISSN: 1465-6493
DOI: 10.1515/pwp-2016-0019
Fitzenberger B., Doerr A.:
Konzeptionelle Lehren aus der ersten Evaluationsrunde der Branchenmindestlöhne in Deutschland (Conceptual lessons from the evaluation studies on sectoral minimum wages in Germany)
In: Journal for Labour Market Research 49 (2016), p. 329-347
ISSN: 1867-8343
DOI: 10.1007/s12651-016-0214-0
Fitzenberger B., Furdas M., Sajons C.:
End-of-Year Spending and the Long-Run Employment Effects of Training Programs for the Unemployed
In: ZEW-Wirtschaftsanalysen 2016-084 (2016)
ISSN: 0944-1530
Fitzenberger B., Sommerfeld K.:
A sequential decomposition of the drop in collective bargaining coverage
In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 236 (2016), p. 37-69
ISSN: 0021-4027
DOI: 10.1515/jbnst-2015-1002
Fitzenberger B., Steffes S., Strittmatter A.:
Return-to-job during and after parental leave
In: International Journal of Human Resource Management 27 (2016), p. 803-831
ISSN: 0958-5192
DOI: 10.1080/09585192.2015.1037328