Antje Mertens

1992 Degree in Economics, Technical University Berlin, Germany.

1993 MA in International Economics at the University of Sussex, England

1998 Doctor in Economics, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany. Title: "Labor Mobility and Wage Dynamics - An Empirical Study for Germany in Comparison with the United States".

1998-2005: Research fellow, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Centre for Studies of the Life Course

Since April 2005: Professor at the Berlin School of Economics and Law, Faculty 2

2009 Habilitation in Economics, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany. Title: „Vocational Training Systems, Regional Unemployment and Fixed-term Contracts as Career Determinants“.

Since October 2009: Dean of Studies at Faculty 2

Member of the advisory committee for the project “Overeducation” at the Hans-Böckler Stiftung

Member of the Verein für Socialpolitik (an association for social policy)

Member of the European Economic Association

Member of SAMF (Arbeitskreis Sozialwissenschaftliche Arbeitsmarktforschung)

Main areas of research: atypical employment, labour market mobility, working life and self-reported satisfaction measures, applied micro-econometrics

Project 1: “Satifaction and the Great Recession ”, with Miriam Beblo (University of Hamburg and HWR)

Project 2: “Atypical Employment and the Service Sector”, with Vanessa Gash (University of Manchester), Martina Dieckmann (Wissenschaftszentrum für Sozialforschung – WZB) and Laura Romeu-Gordo (The German Centre of Gerontology – DZA)

Microeconomics

Macroeconomics

Foreign trade

Labour market economics

Economic policy

Vanessa Gash, Antje Mertens und Laura Romeu Gordo, „Are fixed-term jobs bad for your health?: A comparison of West-Germany and Spain“, European Societies, 2007, 9(3), 429-458.

Antje Mertens, Vanessa Gash und Frances McGinnity, „The Cost of Flexibility at the Margin. Comparing the Wage Penalty for Fixed-Term Contracts in Germany and Spain using Quantile Regression“, Labour, 2007, 21 (4/5), 637-666.

Antje Mertens, Wiemer Salverda und Thomas Zwick (2009), „Training and Job Insecurity – Introduction“, Labour, 2009, 23 (Special Issue), 1-4.

Antje Mertens (2010), A Comment on "Crisis, What Crisis? Patterns of Adaptation in European Labour Markets", in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 56 (61), 59-64.

Bergemann, Annette and Antje Mertens (2011), "Job Stability Trends, Layoffs and Transitions to Unemployment in West-Germany", Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, 25 (4), 421–446.

Gash, Vanessa, Antje Mertens and Laura Romeu-Gordo (2012), "The Influence of Changing Hours of Work on Life Satisfaction", The Manchester School: Special Issue Low Pay, Low Skill and Low Income, 80(1), 51-74.