Herbert Brücker

Head of Department for International Comparisons and European Integration at German Institute for Employment Research, Professor of Economics at University Of Bamberg

Herbert Brücker has been Professor of Economics at the University of Bamberg since 2008 and Head of the Department for International Comparisons and European Integration at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) in Nuremberg since 2005. He received his doctoral degree in economics from the University of Frankfurt a.M. in 1994 and his habilitation in economics from the University of Technology in Berlin 2005. From 1988 to 2005 he held research positions at the University of Frankfurt, the German Development Institute (GDI) and the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) in Berlin. Herbert Brücker was Visiting Professor at the Aarhus University from 2004 to 2005. His research interests cover international migration, labour economics, international economics and applied econometrics. Herbert Brücker has published in European Economic Review, the Scandinavian Journal of Economics and Economic Policy.