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Telephone: +49 30 25491-130 Email: gues@wzb.eu Director of the research unit Labor Market Policy and Employment |
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| Biography | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born in 1942, Günther Schmid is a
graduate in political science of the Free University of Berlin,
where he also took his doctorate in 1973 (title: "Functional
Analysis and Political Theory"). In 1981 he received his certificate
of habilitation (title: "Structural Unemployment and Labour Market
Policy") at the Free University of Berlin. From 1970 to 1974 he was assistant professor for political theory and methodology at the Free University of Berlin. Since 1974 he has been at the Social Science Research Center, from 1979 to 1989 as director of the research area "Labour Market and Employment". In 1989 he was appointed director of the research unit "Labour Market Policy and Employment" and professor for economic theory of politics at the Otto Suhr Institute of the Free University of Berlin. Günther Schmid has been visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Paris Sorbonne, Stockholm and Växjö (Sweden), at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna, the University of Melbourne and the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in Wassenaar. His research and publications focus on political economy, labour market policy and employment, evaluation of public policy and political institutions, political theory, comparative studies of political systems and philosophy of science. Günther Schmid worked as a consultant several times for the OECD in Paris and regularly for the European Commisson in Bruxelles. He is member of several advisory boards of institutes and organizations related to labour market topics. In 2000 he was appointed as a member of the Benchmarkng Group, the scientific advisory board of the "Alliance for Work". In 2002, he was a member of the Commission on "Modern Services for the Labour Market" (Hartz-Commission). In 1997, Günther Schmid was awarded the Schader Prize for his exceptional role in the dialogue between social sciences and political practice. In 1999 the Fritz Thyssen Foundation awarded him first prize for social science essays written in 1997 for his article "The Netherlands as an Employment Miracle? A comparison between the Dutch and German employment systems", which appeared in the German journal "Leviathan" (vol. 25). Günther Schmid
was a member of the
¬European Employment Task Force set up by the European
Commission in 2003. Since 2004, Professor Dr. Günther Schmid has been a fellow of the Institute for the Study of Labour ¬IZA. In February and March 2005, Professor Dr. Günther Schmid was invited by the University of Melbourne, Australia, to present recent labour market-related research results to Australian researchers, students and experts at several institutions and occasions. From 1 September 2005 to 31 January 2006, he followed an invitation from the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences in Wassenaar. ¬ NIAS. Professor Dr. Günther Schmid is a member of the editorial advisory board of the Journal of Industrial Relations (JIR) for a three year period from 2006-2009. Günther Schmid has been rewarded one of three Honorable doctorates 2006 at Växjö University, Sweden. The ceremony at the university took place on February 11, 2006. ¬ Växjö |
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