Alfonso Sousa-Poza

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Alfonso Sousa-Poza (born May 8, 1970 in St. Gallen ) is a Swiss economist and full professor of economics at the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart . He is also an associate professor of economics at Xi'an Jiaotong University .

Life

education

Sousa-Poza completed a computer science degree at the University of Cape Town in February 1988 , which he completed in November 1990. He then studied economics from October 1991 at the University of St. Gallen , where he received his doctorate in April 1999. In May 2003 he completed his habilitation in St. Gallen with the venia legendi for economics .

Professional career

From 1996 to 2007 he was a research assistant at the Research Institute for Labor Economics and Labor Law and a private lecturer at the University of St. Gallen . Since then he has held the Chair of Household and Consumer Economics at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Hohenheim .

Sousa-Poza works regularly as an expert or advisor for institutions such as the World Bank , the European Commission , the OECD , the Federal Statistical Office , the Swiss National Science Foundation , the Bertelsmann Foundation , the Federal Department of Economic Affairs , UBS , Swisscom , Randstad , Avenir Suisse , the Swiss Employers' Association as well as several law firms and courts.

research

Since March 2007 he has been a research assistant at the Research Institute for the Future of Work . His main research interests are age, population and health economics as well as subjective wellbeing research.

Publications (selection)

Sousa-Poza is the coordinating editor of the Journal of the Economics of Aging .

  • David E. Bloom & Alfonso Sousa-Poza: Human Capital and Aging: Introduction . In: The Journal of the Economics of Aging . No. 7 , 2016, p. 61-63 .
  • Peng Nie & Alfonso Sousa-Poza: A Fresh Look at Calorie-Income Elasticities in China . In: China Agricultural Economic Review . No. 8 (1) , 2016, p. 55-80 .
  • Steffen Otterbach & Alfonso Sousa-Poza: Job Insecurity, Employability, and Health: An Analysis for Germany across Generations . In: Applied Economics . No. 48 (14) , 2016, pp. 1303-1316 .
  • Peng Nie, Xiaobo He & Alfonso Sousa-Poza: Peer effects on childhood and adolescent obesity in China . In: China Economic Review . No. 35 , 2015, p. 47-69 .
  • Peng Nie, Steffen Otterbach & Alfonso Sousa-Poza: Long work hours and health in China . In: China Economic Review . No. 33 , 2015, p. 212-229 .
  • Mohamad Alameddine , Jan M. Bauer , Martin Richter & Alfonso Sousa-Poza: Trends in job satisfaction among German nurses from 1990 to 2012 . In: Journal of Health Services Research & Policy . No. 21 (2) , 2015, pp. 101-108 .
  • Jan M. Bauer & Alfonso Sousa-Poza: Impacts of Informal Caregiving on Caregiver: Employment, Health and Family . In: Journal of Population Aging . No. 8 , 2015, p. 113-145 .
  • Jan M. Bauer, Dario Cords , Rachelle Sellung & Alfonso Sousa-Poza: Effects of Different Life Events on Life Satisfaction in the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey . In: Economics Letters . No. 129 , 2015, p. 91-94 .
  • Wencke Gwozdz , Alfonso Sousa-Poza et al .: Maternal Employment and Child Obesity: A European Perspective . In: Journal of Health Economics . No. 32 , 2013, p. 728-742 .
  • Justina AV Fischer & Alfonso Sousa-Poza: Job Satisfaction and Health: An Analysis using Panel Data and Objective Health Measures . In: Health Economics . No. 18 , 2009, p. 71-89 .
  • Alexandre Ziegler & Alfonso Sousa-Poza: Asymmetric Information about Workers' Productivity as a Cause for Inefficient Long Working Hours . In: Labor Economics . No. 10 (6) , 2003, pp. 727-747 .
  • Hans Schmid , Rolf Widmer & Alfonso Sousa-Poza: The Allocation and Value of Time Assigned to Housework and Child-Care: An Analysis for Switzerland . In: Journal of Population Economics . No. 14 , 2001, p. 599-618 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Alfonso Sousa-Poza | IZA - Institute of Labor Economics. Retrieved September 5, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c Profile Page Prof. Dr. Alfonso Sousa-Poza - Alexandria. Retrieved September 6, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b c University of Hohenheim: Prof. Dr. Alfonso Sousa-Poza: Chair of Household and Consumer Economics. Retrieved September 5, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b c University of Hohenheim: Prof. Dr. Alfonso Sousa-Poza: Chair for Household and Consumer Economics. Retrieved September 5, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Prof. Dr. Alfonso Sousa-Poza. Retrieved September 6, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Sousa-Poza, Alfonso
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss economist
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Gallen , Switzerland