Joachim Merz

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Joachim Merz (born October 26, 1948 in Bad Homburg in front of the height ) is a German economist . His research interests are welfare economics , income and income distribution , wealth , use of time ( time budget research ), time and income poverty, taxes , labor market , consumption , economic and social policy with a focus on the liberal professions, self-employed and employees .

Life

Merz studied business administration and business education at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , where he in 1979 with a dissertation on "The expenditure of households - A mikroökonometrisches model for the Federal Republic of Germany" for Dr. rer. pole. received his doctorate.

In 1989 he completed his habilitation at the same university in economics and econometrics on the subject of "Market and non-market activities of private households - theoretical approach, representative micro data, micro- econometric analysis and micro-simulation of economic and social policy measures for the Federal Republic of Germany".

From 1991 to 2017 he was director of the Research Institute for Liberal Professions (FFB) at Leuphana University Lüneburg . He is the editor of several scientific journals and book series, advisor on scientific committees and referee for numerous international scientific journals. Among others, the 'electronic International Journal of Time Use Research' (eIJTUR), the CREPS book series 'Center for Research in Entrepreneurship, Professions and Small Business Economics' ( Lit Verlag ), the FFB book series 'Forschungsinstitut Freie Berufe (FFB)' ( Nomos Verlag ) and 'The Review of Income and Wealth'. In 1998 he founded the 'Research Network on Time Use' (RNTU), on whose website you can research this topic via a front-end with an information system.

His current teaching areas at Leuphana University Lüneburg are statistics , regression analysis , microeconometrics, panel analysis, policy evaluation, labor market , income distribution and empirical economic research .

Publications (selection)

Magazines

  • as publisher: electronic International Journal of Time Use Research. ISSN  1860-9937 .

Books

  • J. Merz: Market and non-market activities of private households. (= Economics. Volume 23). Lit Verlag, Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-643-11592-8 .
  • as co-editor: The dynamics of profound change in society, economy and companies. (= CREPS. Volume 5). Lit Verlag, Münster 2011, ISBN 978-3-643-11261-3 .
  • as publisher: liberal professions - income and taxes (FB € ST) - contributions from science and practice. (= FFB series of publications. Volume 16). Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 2008.
  • as publisher: liberal professions in the changing markets. (= FFB publications. No. 13). Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 2002, ISBN 3-7890-8107-8 .
  • as publisher: Business start-up 2 - success factors and framework conditions. (= FFB publications. No. 12). Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 2001, ISBN 3-7890-7462-4 .
  • as publisher: Business start-up 1 - Tips, training and experience. (= FFB publications. No. 11). Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 2001, ISBN 3-7890-7461-6 .

items

  • with D. Hirschel: Income Distribution of Self-Employed as Freelancers and Entrepreneurs in Europe. In: A. Holzer-Thieser, S. Roth (Ed.): Insurance Law - Financial Market and Freelance Law in the Change of Economic Law and Legal Economics, Festschrift for Harald Herrmann. International Finance Verlag, Nuremberg 2011, pp. 179–215.
  • with T. Rathjen: Are self-employed workers poor in terms of time and income? On the dynamics of interdependent multidimensional poverty with the German time budget surveys. In: S. Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, A. Martin, J. Merz, U. Weisenfeld (eds.): The dynamics of profound change in society, economy and companies. (= Entrepreneurship, Professions, Small Business Economics. Vol. 5). Lit Verlag, Münster 2011, ISBN 978-3-643-11261-3 , pp. 219-244.
  • Time use and time budgets. In: RatSWD, German Data Forum - Rat für Sozial- und WirtschaftsDaten (Hrsg.): Building on Progress - Expanding the Research Infrastructure for the Social, Economic, and Behavioral Sciences. 1, 2010, pp. 413-449.
  • with D. Hanglberger and Rafael Rucha: The Timing of Daily Demand for Goods and Services - Microsimulation Policy Results of an Aging Society, Increasing Labor Market Flexibility, and Extended Public Childcare in Germany. In: Journal of Consumer Policy. Special issue. 33, 2010, pp. 119-141.
  • with P. Böhm and Derik Burgert: Timing and Fragmentation of Daily Working Hours Arrangements and Income Inequality - An Earnings Treatment Effects Approach with German Time Use Diary Data. In: electronic International Journal of Time Use Research. 6/2, 2009, pp. 200-239.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Farewell lecture by Prof. Dr. Joachim Merz . ( leuphana.de [accessed on January 4, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Merz, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Homburg vor der Höhe