Jürgen Meckl

Jürgen Meckl is a German economist and has been a professor of economics at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen since 2004 .

Career

After studying economics, which Meckl graduated with a diploma in May 1988, he worked from 1988 to 1993 as a research assistant in the Collaborative Research Center 178 “Internationalization of the Economy” at the University of Koblenz. During this time, namely in 1989, he also obtained his licentiate degree from the University of Konstanz and received his doctorate there in 1993.

He initially stayed in Konstanz and took up a position there in 1994 as a university assistant at the Faculty of Economics and Statistics, which lasted until 1999 and completed his habilitation there in 2000. In the same year, also in Konstanz, he received a position as a university lecturer in the department for Economics. From 2001 to 2002 he represented the professorship for social policy at the Faculty of Economics at the Technical University of Dresden . He has been a member of the research group “Heterogeneous work: positive and normative aspects of the qualification structure”, initiated in cooperation between the University of Konstanz and the Center for European Economic Research in Mannheim and funded by the German Research Foundation.

From 2002 to 2003, Meckl represented the chair for economic theory at the Faculty of Economics at the Technical University of Chemnitz . Since 2004 he has been professor of economics at the University of Giessen.

Publications (selection)

• Meckl, Jürgen: Investment Dynamics and Structural Adjustment in Open Economies , Tübingen: Mohr, 1994, ISBN 3-16-146325-0
• Meckl, Jürgen: Efficiency wage unemployment and endogenous growth , Konstanz: Univ., Fac. For Economics. and Statistics, 1999
• Meckl, Jürgen; Zink Stefan: Human capital investment and the wage gap , Konstanz: Univ., Department of Economics., 2000

Web links

• Meckl on the website of the University of Giessen (accessed June 3, 2013)