Prof. Dr. Uwe Blien

Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung
der Bundesanstalt für Arbeit (IAB)
90327 Nürnberg
T.: 0911/1793035

PD Dr. Uwe Blien

Professional information:

Uwe Blien studied economics and sociology at the University of Regensburg ( Germany ), where he received his diploma in 1980 and his doctoral degree in 1986.

After his studies he worked at the Universities of Erlangen-Nürnberg and Regensburg.
1987 - 1990 he was a senior researcher and deputy of the head of a department at the Center for Survey, Research and Methodology (ZUMA) in Mannheim.
Since then he has been a senior researcher at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB, Nürnberg).
He is now the head of the department for regional labour market analyses.

In 1999 he received his post-doctoral degree (Habilitation) in economics at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern and has now the status of a Professor there.
1996-2002 he was a member of the Executive Committee of the European Association of Labour Economists (EALE).
Since 2002 he has been the representative of the German speaking section in the Council of the European Regional Science Association (ERSA).

His current research interests include analyses on the effects of unemployment on wages, the development of regions, the effects of structural changes, the analysis of institutions, the econometric application of multilevel models, and the development of East-Asian economies.