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Prof Dr Brigitte Schels

Prof Dr Brigitte Schels attended the Economics and Social Sciences Faculty of the Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU)to study social sciences. She received her doctoral degree from the University of Mannheim in 2012. From 2011 to 2015, she was active as a researcher at the Chair of Sociology and Empirical Research at the Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU). From 2015 to 2023, Brigitte Schels was an Assistant Professor for Labour Market Sociology at the FAU. In 2020 and 2021, she has been a visiting professor for Social Stratification and Quantitative Methods at the University of Vienna. She had been a member of IAB's research staff. Since 2024 Brigitte Schels has been Professor of Empirical Social Structure Analysis at the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg.

All articles by Brigitte Schels

Hand draws a staircase while a stick figure runs up itRead more

December 23, 2024 | Labour Market, Employment and Social Policy

Subsidised jobs for the long-term unemployed: An evaluation of the German Participation Opportunities Act

Juliane Achatz, Frank Bauer, Jenny Bennett, Nadja Bömmel, Mustafa Coban, Martin Dietz, Kathrin Englert, Philipp Fuchs, Jan Gellermann, Claudia Globisch, Sebastian Hülle, Zein Kasrin, Peter Kupka, Anton Nivorozhkin, Christopher Osiander, Laura Pohlan, Markus Promberger, Miriam Raab, Philipp Ramos Lobato, Brigitte Schels, Maximilian Schiele, Mark Trappmann, Stefan Tübbicke, Claudia Wenzig, Joachim Wolff, Cordula Zabel, Stefan Zins

Long-term unemployment remains a significant challenge for the German labour market. The IAB evaluated two programmes that had been introduced in response. The instruments aim at giving long-term ...read more