BOnn, Berkeley, Harvard, Stanford, Cambridge – if a younger economist have been allowed to decide on his profession stations, these names will surely be on the want listing. Within the case of Simon Jäger, they aren’t solely on the want listing, but in addition on the curriculum vitae. The labor market researcher – 36 years outdated – made it from a bachelor scholar within the former federal capital through a number of intermediate stations to affiliate professor on the Massachusetts Institute of Expertise, MIT for brief, in a decade and a half in Cambridge. In autumn he’ll return to his hometown of Bonn and take over the administration of the Institute for the Examine of Labor (IZA). “It is a distinctive alternative with many design choices,” he advised the FAZ
The step from an American elite college again to Germany is uncommon. In terms of fame and the final situations for analysis, Cambridge and Co. cannot be beat. One of many causes that Jäger will pack his baggage is that he’s significantly within the German job market and may implement intensive analysis tasks in his house nation with IZA. Jäger can also be tempted to become involved in financial coverage discourses in Germany. “It is about giving coverage impulses from analysis,” says Jäger.
