Dr. Uwe Blien  is Professor of Sociology, especially Labour Market and Regional Research. He has published many articles on the analysis of regional labour markets and on regional labour market policy. He is interested in the analysis of institutions, of structural change, and of East Asian societies. His papers were published in Economics Letters, Industrial and Labour Relations Review, Labour Economics, Kyklos and other journals.

 

Dr. Blien completed his studies in Economics and Sociology in 1980 (diploma). In 1986 he was awarded his doctorate in Economics  at the University of Regensburg. He was a research associate at the universities of Erlangen-Nuremberg and Regensburg as well as at the Centre for Survey Research and Methodology (ZUMA) in Mannheim. He received his post-doctoral degree at the University of Kaiserslautern in 1999 and in 2006 was appointed Professor of Economics  there. He began his activities for the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) in Nuremberg in 1990, and took over as Head of the Research Department "Regional Labour Markets" in 2002. Since 2008 he has been Professor at the Otto Friedrich University in Bamberg. Uwe Blien is fellow of the Labor and Socio-Economic Research Center (LASER) within the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and research fellow of the Institute for the Study of Labor. In February 2010 he was elected President of the "Gesellschaft für Regionalforschung" (GfR), which is the German-speaking section of the European Regional Science Association (ERSA).

Books

Blien, U. and Maier, G. (eds.) (2008). The economics of regional clusters: Network, technology and policy. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.


Articles and Book Chapters

Blien, U. and Van, P. t. H. (2009). ‘A Bright Future Ahead? A Pilot Study of the Vietnamese Labour Market and its Social and Economic Context,’ Internationales Asienforum - International Asian Quarterly 40(3-4), pp. 313-340.

Blien, U., Gartner, H., Stüber, H. and Wolf, K. (2009). ‘Expensive and low-price places to live: Regional price levels and the agglomeration wage differential in Western Germany,’ Annals of Regional Science 43(1), pp. 71–88.

Baltagi, B. H., Blien, U. and Wolf, K. (2009). ‘New evidence on the dynamic wage curve for Western Germany: 1980-2004,’ Labour Economics 16(1), pp. 47-51.

Südekum, J. and Blien, U. (2007). ‘Stimulating employment growth with higher wages? A new approach to address an old controversy,’ Kyklos 60(3), pp. 441-464.

Elhorst, J. P., Blien, U. and Wolf, K. (2007). ‘New evidence on the wage curve: A spatial panel approach,’ International Regional Science Review 30(2), pp. 173-191.

Blien, U., Südekum, J. and Wolf, K. (2006). ‘Local employment growth in West Germany: A dynamic panel approach,’  Labour Economics 13(4), pp. 445-458.

Blien, U., Hirschenauer, F. Arendt, M., Braun, H. J., Gunst, D.-M., Kilcioglu, S., Kleinschmidt, H., Musati, M., Roß, H., Vollkommer, D. and Wein, J. (2004). ‘Typisierung von Bezirken der Agenturen für Arbeit,’  Zeitschrift für Arbeitsmarktforschung 37(2), pp. 146-175.

Horbach, J., Bellmann, L., Blien, U. and Hauff, Michael von (2001). ‘Beschäftigung im Umweltschutzsektor in Deutschland: eine empirische Analyse auf der Basis des IABBetriebspanels’, Zeitschrift für angewandte Umweltforschung 14(1-4), pp. 109-126.

Bellmann, L. and Blien, U. (2001). ‘Wage Curve Analyses with Establishment Data,’ Industrial and Labour Relations Review 54(4), pp. 851-863.