Hilmar Schneider

Dr. Hilmar Schneider is a Research Fellow at Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit GmbH.
He rejoined the firm in March 2016.
Besides labor policy, his main research emphases comprise problems of social protection, wage policy, and demography.
His most important publications cover papers about the labor market effects of replacement wages, the labor market perspectives of East Germany, the efficiency of active labor policy in the transformation process, and the welfare state perspectives of Europe.
Between 2013 and 2016, Dr. Schneider was the Director of the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) after having served 12 years at IZA as Director of Labor Policy.
In 2014, he was appointed an honorary professor at the Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts, and Education of the University of Luxembourg.
He worked from 1983 to 1987 as a Research Assistant in the special collaborative program "Microanalytic foundations of social policy".
Then he held an assistant professorship from 1987 to 1993 in the department of economics at the University of Frankfurt/Main, giving lectures in statistics, econometrics, and labor economy.
In 1994, he became Head of the labor market department of the Halle Institute for economic research.
Among else within this activity, he worked as a visiting scholar at the World Economy Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1998.
He studied Social Sciences and Economics at the University of Frankfurt/Main.
He received his doctoral degree in 1987 with a dissertation on the determinants of unemployment duration.