Ronald Schettkat

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Ronald Schettkat (born October 19, 1954 in Hamburg ) is a German economist and professor and professor at the Bergische Universität in Wuppertal .

Life

Schettkat spent his school days in Hamburg from 1961 to 1973. In his baccalaureate , he began studying engineering at the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg . In 1976 he obtained his diploma and moved to the Technical University of Berlin , where he then studied economics . In 1982 he graduated there with a degree in economics . In 1982 and 1984 he spent two months each at the University of Essex . In 1987 he also obtained his doctorate in Berlin .

In November 1988 Schettkat was a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies for six months and was a visiting scholar at Stanford and Berkeley Universities . In 1990/91 he conducted research with a fellowship from the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences at the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Study . In December 1991 he completed his habilitation as a private lecturer at the University of Bremen . His habilitation thesis "The Labor Market Dynamics of Economic Restructuring; The United States and Germany in Transition" was published by Praeger Publishers in New York .

In 1994, Schettkat was visiting professor at the University of Amsterdam for six months as part of the Tinbergen Institute . From 1995 he was visiting professor at the universities of Bologna and Modena . From 1996 to 2003 Schettkat was a professor at the University of Utrecht . In 2001 he was visiting professor for two months at Princeton University , and from 2003 to 2004 he was also a fellow at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York . Since December of the same year he has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Hans Böckler Foundation in Düsseldorf . He is also a member of the scientific advisory board of the economic policy magazine Wirtschaftsdienst , for which he regularly writes articles.

Since January 2004 Schettkat has been teaching economics at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal . In July 2006 he became a Scientific Advisory Board member of the renowned Wuppertal Institute , and in December also of the Graduate Center of Excellence “The Design of Efficient Labor Market Institutions in Europe” at the University of Trier .

Schettkat is married and has two children, a son and a daughter.

expert advice

Outside of his university employment, Schettkat works as a specialist advisor at numerous political and economic institutes. A selection of these:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Scientific Advisory Board | Economic service. Retrieved January 4, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Schettkat, Ronald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg