Enzo Weber

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Enzo Weber (* 1980 in Berlin ) is a German economist. Since 2011 he has been head of research at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) in Nuremberg and is also a professor at the University of Regensburg .

His research areas include macroeconomics, labor market, business cycle, forecasting, financial markets, international and monetary economics, and econometrics. He developed u. a. the IAB labor market barometer .

Career

Weber studied economics and received his doctorate in 2007 from the Free University of Berlin . There he was researcher for Jürgen Wolters . He was also a member of the Collaborative Research Center 649 “Economic Risk” at the Humboldt University in Berlin and a visiting researcher at the Japan Center for Economic Research . After moving to the University of Mannheim , he was appointed junior professor at the University of Regensburg in 2009.

Since 2011, Weber has been the head of the “Forecasts and Structural Analyzes” research department at the Institute for Employment Research and holds the chair for empirical economic research at the University of Regensburg . He is also a Research Fellow at the Institute for East and Southeast European Studies and at Berlin Economics .

Awards

In 2008 Enzo Weber received the Ernst Reuter Prize from the Ernst Reuter Society . In the Handelsblatt ranking 2017 U40, he took 20th place. In the FAZ economists ranking 2018 he is ranked 27th. At the LABOR.A 2018 of the Hans Böckler Foundation, Weber's proposal for "digital social security" was recognized as the best idea.

Contributions to public debates

As a result of digitization, Weber does not expect any job losses in Germany. However, he considers a comprehensive training policy to be necessary. In addition, he sees jobs in emerging countries as being badly affected by robotization. With the concept of “Digital Social Security” (DSS), Weber proposes organizing social security for platform workers digitally via a mechanism for paying social security contributions that is integrated into the platforms.

The goal formulated by the federal government of a reserve in the budget of the Federal Employment Agency of 0.65% of the gross domestic product is based on his analyzes. Weber speaks out against a European unemployment insurance as an individual insurance, but argues for a European budget in the sense of a reinsurance.

He sees an essential role of the Hartz reforms in the beginning of the German labor market upswing, but equally critical developments such as the expansion of the low-wage sector and atypical employment. Weber comes to the conclusion that the significantly increased wage inequality in Germany has damaged employment and productivity, and advocates adequate minimum wages. He advocates abolishing the compulsory retirement of Hartz IV recipients and instead ensuring the priority of private pension claims over basic security benefits through direct financial compensation between the pension insurance and the federal government. He also warns that labor market reforms in recessions can even have counterproductive effects in the short and medium term, such as in southern Europe during the European economic and financial crisis.

Weber assumes that the wage development in the 2010s was not dampened by the high level of immigration to Germany. He points out that the high emigration rates of foreigners in Germany would have to be reduced through good integration in order to achieve sustainable positive migration balances. He sees great potential for investments in language and qualifications in connection with refugee migration.

Others

Enzo Weber plays electric guitar and harmonica in the band Wise Noise .

Publications (selection)

  • E. Weber: Industry 4.0: Effects on the economy and the labor market. In: Economic Service. Volume 95, 2015, pp. 722-723.
  • E. Weber: The labor market in Germany: reforms, recession and robustness. In: De Economist. Volume 163, 2015, pp. 461-472.
  • E. Weber: The goal of full employment in Germany: remote, but achievable. IAB short report, 15/2014.
  • R. Tschernig, E. Weber, R. Weigand: Long-run identification in a fractionally integrated system. In: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics. Volume 31, 2013, pp. 438-450.
  • C. Hutter, E. Weber, K. Schmidt, S. Delfs: New early indicator for the development of unemployment: starting shot for the IAB labor market barometer. IAB short report, 20/2013.
  • E. Weber: Analyzing US output and the great moderation by simultaneous unobserved components. In: Journal of Money, Credit and Banking. Volume 43, 2011, pp. 1579-1597.
  • E. Weber: Structural conditional correlation. In: Journal of Financial Econometrics. Volume 8, 2010, pp. 392-407.
  • B. Gehrke, E. Weber: Identifying asymmetric effects of labor market reforms. In: European Economic Review. Volume 110, 2018, pp. 18-40.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of the Ernst Reuter Prize Winners. (No longer available online.) Freie Universität Berlin , archived from the original on December 22, 2015 ; Retrieved December 10, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Handelsblatt VWL Ranking 2017 - researchers under 40th Handelsblatt , accessed on November 24, 2018 .
  3. ↑ FAZ Economists Ranking 2018: Germany's Most Influential Economists. FAZ , accessed on November 24, 2018 .
  4. ↑ LABOR.A - successful competition of good ideas . In: Codetermination . ( magazin-mitbestfung.de [accessed on November 24, 2018]).
  5. ↑ Weber, Enzo: Digitization as a challenge for a further education policy . In: Wirtschaftsdienst - magazine for economic policy . tape 2017 , no. 5 , May 12, 2017 ( Wirtschaftsdienst.eu [accessed November 25, 2018]).
  6. ↑ Francesco Carbonero, Ekkehard Ernst, Enzo Weber: Robots worldwide: The impact of automation on employment and trade . October 27, 2018 ( ilo.org [accessed November 25, 2018]).
  7. ^ Enzo Weber: Setting out for Digital Social Security . September 30, 2018 ( ilo.org [accessed November 25, 2018]).
  8. ↑ Digital social security - a step into the future - IAB-Forum . In: IAB forum . September 13, 2018 ( iab-forum.de [accessed November 25, 2018]).
  9. ↑ Income and expenditure of unemployment insurance: BA budget stabilizes the economy. (PDF) Retrieved November 25, 2018 .
  10. ↑ European unemployment insurance: The diagnosis is correct, the therapy is not. (PDF) Retrieved November 25, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Macroeconomic perspective on the Hartz reforms: The advantages outweigh. (PDF) Retrieved November 25, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Labor market effects of wage differentials: higher inequality is harmful . In: Oekonomenstimme.org . ( oekonomenstimme.org [accessed November 25, 2018]).
  13. ↑ Weber, Enzo: Priority to pensions only in retrospect! In: Wirtschaftsdienst - magazine for economic policy . tape 2016 , no. 5 , May 12, 2016 ( Wirtschaftsdienst.eu [accessed November 25, 2018]).
  14. ^ The Timing of Structural Labor Market Reforms Matters - IAB-Forum . In: IAB forum . February 9, 2018 ( iab-forum.de [accessed November 25, 2018]).
  15. ↑ Puzzling Wage Developments in Germany? In: IMF Country Report No. 18/208. International Monetary Fund, accessed November 25, 2018 .
  16. ↑ Guest contribution by Enzo Weber: Stayed here! In: sueddeutsche.de . September 11, 2016, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed November 25, 2018]).
  17. ↑ Fiscal and macroeconomic effects: Investments in the integration of refugees are worthwhile. (PDF) Retrieved November 25, 2018 .
  18. ↑ Bavarian Elite Network FORUM - Quo vadis Monetary Union? Elitenetzwerk Bayern , January 26, 2012, accessed December 10, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Weber, Enzo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin