Antje Mertens

Office Address

Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Lentzeallee 94
D-14195 Berlin
Germany
Fon +49 - 30 - 824 06 - 390
Fax +49 - 30 - 824 99 39
Email mertens@mpib-berlin.mpg.de

EDUCATION

1998	Ph.D. in Economics
	Department of Economics, Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany; Thesis: "Labor Mobility and Wage Dynamics - An Empirical Study for Germany in Comparison with the United States" (supervisor: Prof. Michael C. Burda, Ph.D.)
1993	MA in International Economics
	Department of Economics, University of Sussex, England; Dissertation: "Integrating Central and Eastern Europe in the European Community" (supervisor: Prof. Alasdair Smith, Ph.D.)
1992	Masters Degree in Economics (Diplom-Volkswirtin)
	Department of Economics Technical University Berlin, Germany; Dissertation: "Labor Market Policies in East Germany" (supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Kromphardt)

Professional Experience

November 1999	March 2001 on maternity leave
Since 1998	Scientific Researcher
	Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
1995	Lecturer
	London City College, Berlin Study Center
1993-1998	Instructor and Research Assistant (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin)
	Department of Economics, Humboldt University Berlin, Institute for Macro- and Labor Economics (http://www.wiwi.hu-berlin.de/wt2); member of the Sonderforschungsbereich 373 "Quantification and Simulation of Economic Processes" financed by the German Science Foundation (http://sfb.wiwi.hu-berlin.de)
1989-1992	Undergraduate Teaching Assistant (Tutorin)
	Department of Economics, Technical University Berlin, Institute for Economic Policy

Fields of Specialization

Labour Economics; Mobility; Microeconometrics

Professional Affiliations

Observer in the 'European Low-Wage Employment Research Network' (1996-1998)

Foundation member of the 'Längsschnitt Werkstatt Berlin Brandenburg (LWBB)'

Member of the 'European Economic Association' and of the 'Verein für Socialpolitik'

Research Fellow of the 'German Science Foundation Sonderforschungsbereich 373'

Publications

"Locational Competition versus Cooperation in Labor Markets: An Implicit Contract Reinterpretation", in: Horst Siebert (ed.), Locational Competition in the World Economy, Institut für Weltwirtschaft Kiel Symposium 1994, Tübingen: Mohr 1995, 71-107 (with Michael Burda).

Solutions Manual to accompany Michael Burda and Charles Wyplosz: Macroeconomics a European Text, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press 1997 (with Stefan Profit and Mark Weder).

"Industrielle und berufliche Mobilität - Eine Untersuchung auf Basis der IAB -Beschäftigtenstichprobe", in: Mitteilungen aus der Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, 3/1997, 663-670 (in English: "Industrial and Occupational Mobility in Germany", mimeo.)

"Arbeitsplatzverlust und Lohnentwicklung - Eine empirische Analyse für Westdeutschland", in: Konjunkturpolitik, Beiheft Nr. 48, 1998 (with Michael Burda).

Labor Mobility and Wage Dynamics - An Empirical Study for Germany in Comparison with the United States, 1998, Ph.D. thesis Humboldt University Berlin and Aachen: Shaker Verlag.

Zwischen drinnen und draußen - Arbeitsmarktchancen und soziale Ausgrenzung in Deutschland, edited together with Felix Büchel, Martin Diewald, Peter Krause and Heike Solga, Conference Reader of the 1998 LWBB conference in Berlin, Germany, Leske + Budrich, Opladen: 2000.

Aufstiegschancen von Über- und Unterqualifizierten - Ein Test der Karrieremobilitäts-Theorie, in Uschi Backes-Gellner and Petra Moog (eds.), Schriften des Vereins für Socialpolitik, Neue Folge Band 279, Bildungssystem und betriebliche Beschäftigungsstrategien, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001.

Estimating wage losses of displaced workers in Germany, Labour Economics (8)1 (2001) pp. 15-41 (with Michael Burda).

Regional and Industrial Wage Dynamics in West Germany and the United States, forthcoming 2002 in Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik - Journal of Economics and Statistics, Vol 222.

Discussion Papers

"Employment and Wages in Germany: Regional and Sectoral Dynamics", Humboldt- University Berlin Sonderforschungsbereich 373, Discussion Paper 55/1996.

"Employment Shocks, Wages and Mobility - Some Selected Comparisons between Western Germany and the United States", Humboldt- University Berlin Sonderforschungsbereich 373, Discussion Paper 22/1998.

"Job Stability Trends and Labor Market (Re-)Entry in West Germany 1984-1997", 1999, SFB 373 Working Paper 60-1999 (http://sfb.wiwi.hu-berlin.de)

"Overeducation, Undereducation and the Theory of Career Mobility", SFB 373 Working paper 84-2001 (with Felix Büchel).

"Job Stability Trends, Layoffs and Quits - An Empirical Analysis for West Germany", forthcoming as SFB 373 Working Paper (with Annette Bergemann)

"Training Systems and Labor Mobility - A Comparison between Germany and Sweden", 2001, forthcoming as SFB 373 Working Paper (with Tomas Korpi)

Presentations

1995	Workshop of the CEPR on Imperfect Information and Competition in Dublin, Ireland.
1996	Workshop of the German Statistical Association in Potsdam, Germany European Economic Association Annual Conference in Istanbul, Turkey
1997	University of Mannheim, Germany Workshop of the IAB and ZEW in Mannheim, Germany EEA Summer School in Madrid, Spain Conference of the Network on Low Wage Employment in London, UK
1998	Workshop on Labor Markets of the DIW at the Free University Berlin, Germany 3rd Spring Meeting of Young Economists in Berlin, Germany German Labor Market Conference in Berlin, Germany European Economic Association Annual Conference in Berlin, Germany
1999	EEA Annual Congress in Santiago de Compostela, Spain Annual Conference of the Association of the Berlin and Brandenburg Economists, Germany
2001	EEA Annual Congress in Lausanne, Switzerland EALE Annual Conference in Jyväskylä, Finland Verein für Socialpolitik in Magdeburg, Germany WZB Workshop on Skill Needs and Labour Market Dynamics
2002	IZA Workshop on Job Stability