Proceedings of OeNB Workshops. Dimensions of Inequality in the EU Dimensionen der Ungleichheit in der EU. No. 16 WORKSHOPS.

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1 OESTERREICHISCHE NATIONALBANK EUROSYSTEM WORKSHOPS Proceedings of OeNB Workshops Dimensions of Inequality in the EU Dimensionen der Ungleichheit in der EU September 8, 2008 Stability and Security. No. 16

2 Wilfried Altzinger is an Associate Professor of economics and Head of the Institute Money and Finance at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. He studied in Linz and Bremen (Germany). Between 1984 and 1986, he was postdoc fellow and from 1986 to 1988 Assistant Professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna. In 1989 he received his Ph. D. in economics and in 2001 his Habilitation from the Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria (Austrian FDI in Central and Eastern Europe and its Implication on Trade and Employment). Between 1993 and 1994, he spent a year as a Research Fellow at the Labour Market Research Center, Curtin University of Technology at Perth, Australia. He was Research Fellow at the Finish Economic Research Institute (2005), the Institute of Macroeconomic Analysis and Development, Ljubljana (2005), the University of Ljubljana (2005) and at the Institute for World Economics, Budapest (2005). He was Visiting Professor at the University of Mauritius (2004) and at the University of Giessen (2008). His current research is in the area of foreign direct investment and trade, European integration and European enlargement and in particular on the determinants of earnings and wealth inequality. Alfonso Arpaia has been working as Head of Sector Labor Markets at the European Commission for nine years. Before, he served at the Department of Economic Affairs at the Italian Prime Minister s Office as Senior Economist. He studied international economics at the Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza and received his Ph. D. in 1998 (Thesis: Exchange Rate Crises and Wage Formation Mechanisms: an Application to Italy. Mr. Arpaia has a M. Sc. from the Southampton Solent University where he studied economics and econometrics between 1993 and1995. Mr. Arpaia s interests include econometrics, labor economics, international economics and national accounts. Günther Chaloupek (born 1947) studied law and economics at the University of Vienna between 1965 and He completed his studies (M. A.) with a Fulbright scholarship at Kansas University in 1970/71. His first employment after university was with the Austrian Institute for Regional Planning (Vienna) in 1971/72. Since 1972 Günther Chaloupek has been employed with the Austrian Chamber of Labor in the department for economic research. In 1986, he became director of the department for economic research and statistics in the Chamber of Labor. Besides this obligation, Mr. Chaloupek served as Managing Director of the Economic and 212 WORKSHOPS NO. 16

3 Social Council of the Parity Commission in the years between 1976 and He is the editor of the quarterly journal Wirtschaft and Gesellschaft and Vice President of the Austrian Government Debt Committee. Giacomo Corneo has the chair of Public Economics at the Free University of Berlin. He was previously Professor of Economics at the University of Osnabrück. He studied economics at Universitá Bocconi in Milan, earned a Ph. D. at Ministero dell'universitá in Rome and one from the EDP at EHESS in Paris, and got his habilitation at the University of Bonn. He taught at ENPC in Paris and at the University of Bonn. From 1993 to 1994 he served as advisor for labor market issues at Ministère de l'economie et des Finances in Paris. Giacomo Corneo has published several works in the fields of public economics, labor economics, comparative economics, industrial organization, and growth theory. His papers appear in various periodicals, including American Economic Review, Journal of Public Economics, International Economic Review, European Economic Review. His current research is focused on redistributive taxation, the economics of public utilities and regulation, the economic role of the mass media and the economics of social norms. Michael F. Förster is a social policy economist at the OECD Social Policy Division. He has been working in different departments at the OECD Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs since More recently, he has coauthored the study Income Distribution and Poverty Trends in the OECD Area in Since then, Mr. Förster is involved in follow-up projects of this study, in the OECD work on Benefits and Wages and in the thematic review Managing Sickness and Disability. In the past, Mr. Förster was also collaborating with international research institutes, the Luxembourg Income Study ( ) and the European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research, Vienna ( ). Mr. Förster s research interest and expertise focus on international comparative social policy analysis, in particual in the areas of income distribution, poverty, impacts of tax/benefit policies, and selected areas of social policy reform. Michael F. Förster studied economics at the Universities of Vienna (MA) and Saarbrücken and holds a Ph. D. from the University of Liège. He is regularly giving presentations at international conferences and is author of various journal articles and numerous research papers and book contributions. Joachim R. Frick, born in 1962, studied economics, sociology and management at the University of Trier and at Clark University in Worcester, MA (USA). He acquired an MA in economics (Diplom-Volkswirt) in 1988 at the University of Trier. He received a Ph. D. in Social Science (Dr. rer. soc.) at the Ruhr-University of Bochum in 1996 and a Habilitation degree in Empirical Economics at the Berlin University of Technology (TU Berlin) in 2006, where he currently is acting professor (Lehrstuhlvertretung) for empirical economics at the Faculty for WORKSHOPS NO

4 Economics & Management. He is an IZA Research Fellow since In January 1989, Joachim R. Frick started as a research economist at DIW Berlin. Since 2004, he is Deputy Director of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). Frick is in charge of coordinating the inclusion of SOEP data in a range of cross-national comparative panel databases (CNEF, ECHP, CHER). Over the period from 2003 to 2006, he was Head of Services of the EPUNet (European Panel Users Network), an EU-financed project targeted at enhancing the use of ECHP. Since 2006 Frick is Co-PI of the project AIM-AP (Accurate Income Measurement for the Assessment of Public Policies funded by the EU s 6 th FP) focusing on the relevance of various types of non-cash incomes for economic well-being as well as on determinants of non-take up of social benefits in cross-national perspective. General research interests are in the fields of welfare economics (e.g. wealth and income inequality, mobility, subjective wellbeing), immigration as well as in methodological issues related to the measurement of economic outcomes (item-non-response, imputation, non-cash incomes). Peer reviewed journal articles are included in Review of Income and Wealth, Journal of Population Economics, Journal of European Social Policy, Population Research and Policy Review, Allgemeines Statistisches Archiv, Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, Social Indicators Research, Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, International Migration Review, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Ageing & Society and Journal of Comparative Economics. Markus M. Grabka, born in 1968, studied sociology and computer sciences at the TU Berlin and received his MA in He started his career as research associate at the Berlin Center for Public Health. Markus M. Grabka has been working as a research associate at the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) at the DIW Berlin since He earned his doctorate in public health at the faculty of economy and management at the TU Berlin. Markus M. Grabka has published in various refereed journals e. g. European Economic Review, Review of Income and Wealth, Social Indicators Research, Australian Social Monitor, Medizinische Klinik, Journal of Public Health. His research interests focus on personnel income and wealth distribution, international micro simulation, development of Cross National Equivalent Files (CNEF) and on health economy. Cecilia García-Peñalosa works in the position of a tenured research fellow for the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Marseille, France). Ms. García- Peñalosa studied economics at Cambridge University and at Oxford University, from where she obtained her Ph. D. in economics in Her fields of interest cover applied macroeconomics, development economics and labor economics. Cecilia García-Peñalosa has been vastly publishing in various economic journals as in the Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Public Economics and in the Review of Development Economics. In co-operation with Theo Eicher, she is 214 WORKSHOPS NO. 16

5 editing the volume Institutions, Development and Economic Growth (MIT Press). In line with her professional responsibilities she is a CESifo fellow. Michael Hartmann studied sociology, political sciences, philosophy, history, psychology and German at the Universities of Marburg and Hannover (MA in 1976). In 1979, he earned his Ph. D. at the University of Hannover and four years later he habilitated in sociology at the University of Osnabrück. Mr. Hartmann started his professional career as research assistant at the universities of Bochum, Osnabrück and Paderborn. He was engaged as visiting professor at the University of Osnabrück (1984), the University of Kassel ( ) and Duisburg (1991). Between 1993 and 1994, he worked as research fellow for the German Research Foundation (DFG). In the following, he started working for the universities of Paderborn and Darmstadt as visiting professor. Since 1999, Michael Hartmann has been holding the position of a full professor of sociology at the department of Sociology at the TU Darmstadt. In his research he focuses on elites, globalization and national economic cultures, sociology of industry and organizations, sociology of management and sociology of professions. Peter Mooslechner, born in 1954, is the Director of the Economic Analysis and Research Section of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank, Vienna. He studied Economics at the Johannes Kepler University, Linz (Austria) where he also received his Doctorate in Since then he has been teaching economics and economic policy at several universities, including those of Linz, Innsbruck, Salzburg and the University of Economics, Vienna. He worked at the Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO) for more than 15 years, joined the Oesterreichische Nationalbank in 1996 to become the Head of the Economic Analysis Division and in 1999 he was appointed Director of the Economic Analysis and Research Section. He is a Member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the ECB, Member of the Heads of Research Group of the Eurosystem as well as a Board Member of the Austrian Economic Association and a Member of the Editorial Board of EMPIRICA among a number of other positions. His main areas of research and publications cover macroeconomics, monetary and fiscal policy, financial markets and banking, the development of economic institutions and Eastern European issues. Karl Pichelmann, born 1956 in Vienna, has been at the European Commission since 1998 and he is currently a research adviser in the Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs. He is also Associate Professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Institut d Etudes Européenes. He earned his Ph. D. from the University of Vienna in Before joining the European Commission, he was a senior economist at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna, where he also taught at the University for Economics and Business Administration. Current research interests focus on globalization and European Economic and monetary integration and its impact on labor markets and social models in Europe. In the DG WORKSHOPS NO

6 ECFIN Karl Pichelmann is involved in a wide array of activities in this field, such as work on growth and inequality, wage and productivity dynamics, or mobility and migration. In addition, Karl Pichelmann is responsible in the DG ECFIN for the Macroeconomic Dialogue, a high-level forum for the exchange of views between the European Commission, ECB, ECOFIN Council and the Social Partners. Christa Schlager, born in 1969, studied economics and business administration at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and at the Copenhagen Business School. Since October 1999, she has been occupied as an economist in the Chamber of Labour Vienna, Department of Economics and Statistics. Her main fields of interest include EU-budget; fiscal and distributional policies and feminist economics. In 1999, she was a member of the research project environmental management and sustainability at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. Besides her professional career as an economist, Christa Schlager had also been successful as a winemaker in Sooß ( ). She holds a licence for restaurants and hotels and the permission to train apprentices. Martin Schürz studied philosophy, political science and economics. He is head of the monetary unit of the Economic Analysis Division of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank. His research interests are on wealth distribution and inheritances. Sepp Zuckerstätter graduated in economics from the University of Economics and Business Administration in Vienna. He completed his master thesis on the Consequences of Thatcherism for the UK Labour Market, while on student exchange at the London School of Economics. In 1994, he joined the post graduate program at the Institute for Advances Studies in Vienna, where he specialized in labor market theory and auction theory. Since 1996, Mr. Zuckerstätter has been employed with the Chamber of Labor as an expert for labor market policy and income distribution. In addition, Sepp Zuckerstätter lectures at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. 216 WORKSHOPS NO. 16