ZEW Researcher Receives Constantin-von-Dieze Award

Dr. Susanne Steffes received the Constantin-von-Dietze Award from the University of Freiburg for her doctoral thesis "Employment Dynamics and Heterogeneous Labor Markets: An Analysis with Linked Employer-Employee and Company Data" which was completed in 2010. At the solemn opening of the academic year on 26 October 2011, principal Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Hans-Jochen Schiewer and the donor of the award, Dr. Thomas Schäuble, CEO of the state-run brewery Rothaus AG, presented the award. In her work, Susanne Steffes investigated on the basis of new data, how flexible the German labour market had been between 1996 and 2005. Susanne Steffes is a researcher at the ZEW Research Department "Labour Markets, Human Resources and Social Policy".