Joachim Merz

Joachim Merz (* born in 26. October 1948 in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe) is a German economist. His main research themes are welfare economics, income and income distribution, affluence/richness, time use, taxes, labour market, consumption and economic- and social policy with focus on liberal professions, self-employed and employees.

Life

Merz studied Business Economics, Business, and Economics Education at the Goethe University Frankfurt. He received his doctorate in 1979 with the dissertation about „Die Ausgaben privater Haushalte – Ein mikroökonometrisches Modell für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland“. In 1989 he habilitated at the same university in Economics and Econometrics with the topic „Markt- und nichtmarktmäßige Aktivitäten privater Haushalte - Theoretischer Ansatz, repräsentative Mikrodaten, mikroökonometrische Analyse und Mikrosimulation wirtschafts- und sozialpolitischer Maßnahmen für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland“.

Since 1991 he is the head of the Research Institute on Professions (FFB) of the Leuphana University Lüneburg. He is the editor of several scientific journals and book series, consultant on scientific boards and referee for many international journals. Among others, the ’electronic International Journal of Time Use Research’ (eIJTUR), the CREPS book series ’Center für Research in Entrepreneurship, Professions and Small Business Economics’ (Lit Verlag), the FFB book series ‘Forschungsinstitut Freie Berufe (FFB)’ (NOMOS Verlag) and ’The Review of Income and Wealth’. In 1998 he founded the 'Research Network on Time Use' (RNTU), on which website you can search via a front-end with an information system to this subject.

His current teaching areas at the Leuphana University Lüneburg are statistics, regression analysis, microeconometrics, panel analysis, labour market, income distribution and economic research.

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