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Education, Work, and Life Chances

Research Unit: Labor Market Policy and Employment





Dr. Achim Kemmerling




phone: +49 30 25491-150
Fax:      +49 30 25491-222
Email: kemmerling@wzb.eu

Political Scientist, M. A.

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Curriculum Vitae
     


2005 -
Senior researcher in the research unit Labour Market Policy and Employment at the Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB)


2004
Visiting Fellow, Yale University


2001 - 2004
Senior Research Assistant, Jean Monnet Centre, Free University Berlin


2000 - 2001
Master in International Political Economy


1995 - 2000
Diploma in Political Science, Free University Berlin
(as well as University of Tübingen and Santiago de Chile)


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Fields of interest
 
 

 
  • Theory of Political Economy and Rational Choice
     
  • Quantitative Methods in Social Sciences
     
  • Political Economy of the EU
     
  • Welfare States and their Links to Labour Markets


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Publications
 
 

 
2006, Diffusion and Interaction in Labour Market Policy? Positive and negative effects of contagion exemplified by two debates on policy reforms, WZB Discussion Paper SP I 2006-119 (pdf)

2006, with Thilo Bodenstein, Partisan Politics in Regional Redistribution: Do Parties Affect the Distribution of EU Structural Funds Across Regions?, European Union Politics, 7:3, with reviewing process.

2006, with Oliver Bruttel, New Politics in German Labour Market Policy? The Implications of the Recent Hartz Reforms for the German Welfare State, West European Politics, 29:1, pp. 90-112, with reviewing process.

2005, with Monika Heupel, Der Einfluss postmoderner Ansätze auf die Theorieentwicklung in den Internationalen Beziehungen
 [The impact of postmodern approaches on the theoretical development in IR], in Marcel Lepper et al. (eds.),
Jenseits des Poststrukturalismus?, Frankfurt a. M., Peter Lang, pp. 203-224.

2005, with Oliver Bruttel, New Politics in German Labour Market Policy? The Implications of the Recent Hartz Reforms for the German Welfare State, WZB Discussion Paper SP I 2005-101, (pdf)

2005, Tax Mixes, welfare states and employment: tracking diverging vulnerabilities, Journal of European Public Policy, 12:1 February 2005: 1-22, with reviewing process.

2004, Die Messung von Brutto- und Nettosozialleistungen, 14. Wissenschaftliches Colloquium des stat. Bundesamtes, 20./21.11., Wiesbaden. (pdf) erschienen in Forum der Bundesstatistik. Die Ökonomische Leistungsfähigkeit Deutschlands, Bestandsaufnahme und internationaler Vergleich, Bd. 44: 150 – 172.

2004, Die politische Ökonomie der EU-Osterweiterung. Ein Überblick über die Forschungsliteratur mit Kommentaren, Ezoneplus Working Paper No. 4. (pdf)

2003, Wohlfahrtsstaat und Dienstleistungsbeschäftigung. Die Rolle des Wohlfahrtsstaates in der Entwicklung unterschiedlicher Dienstleistungssektoren, WZB Discussion Paper SP I 2003 - 108. (pdf)

2003, The Political Economy of Support for Eastward Enlargement. Job Loss, Institutions, and Political Alienation in Central and Eastern European Countries, in José Manuel Caetano (Ed.). The European Union Enlargement - Social and Economic Impacts. Évora: Centro de Documentação Europeia, 2003. (ISBN: 972-9051-41-0), pp. 33-50.

2003, Report on the Social Dimension of Ezoneplus, Ezoneplus Working Paper 13, (pdf)

2003, Regional Input Social Dimension, Ezoneplus Working Paper 13c (pdf)

2002, with Andreas Stephan, The contribution of local public infrastructure to private pro-
ductivity and its political economy: Evidence from a panel of large German cities
, Public Choice 113: 403-424, with reviewing process. 
 

2002, The Employment Effects of Different Regimes of Welfare State Taxation. An empirical examination of 18 OECD countries, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies Cologne Discussion Paper 02/8. (pdf), with reviewing process.  

2002, Regional Input Labour Markets, Ezoneplus Working Paper 6a, together with Tiiu Paas et al. (pdf)

2002, mit Christian Fahrholz, Transition und Tertiarisierung: Zu den realwirtschaftlichen Folgen eines unbalancierten Wachstums, in: Gewinner und Verlierer post-sozialistischer Transformationsprozesse, Beiträge für die 10. Brühler Tagung junger Osteuropa-Experten, Forschungsstelle Osteuropa Bremen, Arbeitspapiere und Materialien, S.56-62.

2001, Die Messung des Sozialstaates. Beschäftigungspolitische Unterschiede zwischen Brutto- und Nettosozialleistungsquote,
WZB Discussion Paper FS I 01-201 (pdf)

2001, Sozialstaat - neu definiert. Unterschiede zwischen Brutto- und Nettosozialleistungsquote, WZB Mitteilungen 92, S. 3-5.

2001, mit Andreas Stephan, The Contribution of Local Public Infra-structure to Private Productivity and Its Political-Economy: Evidence from a Panel of Large German Cities,
WZB Discussion Paper FS IV 01-14. (pdf)

2000, mit Andreas Stephan, Political Economy of Infrastructure Investment Allocation: Evidence from a Panel of Large German Cities, WZB Discussion Paper FS IV 00 - 03. (pdf)



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Teaching activities
 



Summer 2006
graduate course
Introduction to quantitative methods in comparative politics



Winter 2005/06
graduate course
Theories of Political Economy and its Application to European Integration
(with Thilo Bodenstein)



Summer 2005
Lecture
The Political Economy of Labour Markets
(with Günther Schmid and Christian Brzinsky-Fay)



Summer 2004
undergraduate course
Einführung in die Internationale Politische Ökonomie am Beispiel der europäischen Union
(with Sandra Pogodda)

undergraduate course
 Politik und Ökonomie europäischer Transitions- und außereuro-
päischer Entwicklungsländer im Vergleich

(with Thomas Meyer)



Winter 2003/04
graduate course
Die soziale Dimension der EU-Osterweiterung: Die Transformation sozio-ökonomischen Wandels in polit-ökonomische Konflikte
(with Michael Bolle)



Summer 2003
graduate course
Politik und Ökonomie in der EU: Entwicklungs- und Transitionsländer
(with Michael Bolle und Thomas Meyer)

undergraduate course
Einführung in die moderne politische Ökonomie am Beispiel der Europäischen Union
(with Andrej Stuchlik)



Winter 2002/03
graduate course
Einführung in räumliche Modelle der Politikwissenschaft anhand empirischer Beispiele aus der Europäischen Union

(with Michael Bolle and Jochen Blessing)



Summer 2002
undergraduate course
Nationale Modelle des Wohlfahrtsstaates in Europa: Ex pluribus unum?
(with Christian Fahrholz)



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Achim's Links
 
 

 
Christopher Doughtery's introduction to econometrics
¬ Dougherty's pp-slides

Online Dictionary German-English ¬ Leo's

One of the best search engines for working papers ¬ Ideas


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