Jens Südekum

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Jens Südekum (2014)

Jens Südekum (born August 24, 1975 in Goslar ) is a German economist . He is university professor for international economics at the Düsseldorf Institute for Competitive Economics (DICE) at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf . He is also a Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), the CESifo Institute, the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) and the Research Institute for the Future of Work (IZA). In addition, he has been chairman of the committee for regional theory and policy at the Verein für Socialpolitik (VfS) since 2016 and was editor of the Journal of Regional Science from 2015 to 2018.

Life

After graduating from high school in Goslar and doing community service, he studied economics at the Georg-August University in Göttingen and the University of California in Los Angeles and received his doctorate in 2003 from the Georg August University with a thesis on regional economic disparities within the European Union Union . This was followed by positions at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB), as a junior professor for economic policy at the University of Konstanz and as a professor at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz .

In 2007, at the age of 31, he received a chair for microeconomics and foreign trade at the University of Duisburg-Essen , where he worked until 2014 and in 2012 was the first economist to receive the Duisburg-Essen teaching award. He turned down offers to the University of Kassel and the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel . He was a member of the board of the Urban Economics Association (UEA).

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Jens Südekum conducts research on questions of international trade and regional policy. He is primarily concerned with the influence of globalization and technological change on the German labor market. He has analyzed the effects of increasing foreign trade with China and Eastern Europe on local employment and wage levels, regional growth and structural change in Germany. He is also interested in the future of work and the impact of new digital technologies such as industrial robots on wages and employment. In addition, he has researched the New Economic Geography , the distribution of city sizes ( Zipf's law ) and the organization of international value chains in multinational companies.

He advocates the compensation of globalization losers in industries competing with imports, which suffer from labor market problems due to increasing trade interdependencies. As these sectors are often highly concentrated in space, he also spoke out in favor of using regional and structural policy measures, but warned against misdirected funding for clusters and ineffective regional policy instruments.

Awards

In 2015, the Handelsblatt ranked Jens Südekum among the three young economists with the most publications (under 40) from the German-speaking region, and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung selected him as one of the 20 most influential German economists in its 2019 ranking. He has received various international research awards, including the EPAINOS Award from the European Regional Science Association (ERSA).

His research results have been reviewed for example in the New York Times , the Washington Post , the Financial Times and in the Economist , the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the ZEIT . He regularly publishes comments on current economic policy issues in daily newspapers and blogs.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jens Südekum, Wolfgang Dauth, Sebastian Findeisen, Nicole Woessner: German Robots: The impact of industrial robots on workers . In: IAB Discussion Papers 30/2017.
  2. ↑ Jens Südekum, Wolfgang Dauth, Sebastian Findeisen: Losers (regions) of globalization in Germany: Who? Why? What to do? In: Wirtschaftsdienst , 2017, 97 (1), pp. 24–31.
  3. ↑ Jens Südekum, Wolfgang Dauth, Sebastian Findeisen: The Rise of the East and the Far East: German Labor Markets and Trade Integration . Journal of the European Economic Association, 2014, 12 (6), pp. 1643–1675.
  4. ↑ Jens Südekum: Help for losers in competition . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , September 15, 2017, p. 18 (“Order of the economy”).
  5. ↑ Handelsblatt VWL Ranking 2015 - researchers under 40. In: Handelsblatt. September 6, 2015, accessed December 7, 2019 .
  6. ↑ FAZ economists ranking: Germany's most influential economists. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. October 4, 2019, accessed December 7, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Südekum, Jens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Goslar