BIO

Joachim Merz, is University Professor (Economics and Econometrics) for Statistics and Professions and Director of the Research Institute on Professions (FFB), Center for Research in Entrepreneurship, Professions and Small Business Economics (CREPS), at the Department of Economic and Social Sciences, University of Lueneburg, and Fellow of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, Germany. He is on the advisory boards for Federal Poverty and Wealth Report, Research Data Centers of the Federal Statistical Office and Statistical Offices of the Länder, and chair of the advisory board on Effective Anonymization of the German Income Tax Statistic. He has been a referee or editor to a number of scientific journals. His research interests include microanalyses based on microeconomic theory, microeconometrics and microsimulation of policy impacts in the fields of consumption, income and income distribution, time use and economic well-being, taxes, labor market, and economic and social policy with emphasis on professions, self-employed, and employees. He is the author of several books and numerous articles.