Klaus Schömann has accepted a call for a professorship at the International University Bremen. Since May 1, 2004 he has been working there as a Professor for Professor of Sociology at the Jacobs Center for Lifelong Learning and Institutional Development.
The following pages present his research at the WZB from 1992 to April 2004.

Homepage at the International University Bremen:
¬ http://www.iu-bremen.de/directory/kschoemann/index.php
e-mail: k.schoemann@iu-bremen.de
phone: +49 421 200-4750
 

Since 1992 he works as research fellow at the Social Science Research Center (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung) in the unit "Arbeitsmarktpolitik und Beschäftigung" (Direktor Prof. G. Schmid). He  is currently directing the project "Qualification Needs in OECD Countries - Measuring, Analyses and Implementation", which is co-financed by the German Ministry of Education and Research until 2006.

Until December 2005 he is Principal Contractor in the European research network "tlm.net" jointly with SISWO in Amsterdam. The title of the project is: "Managing social risks through transitional labour markets" and comprises a network of 25 research institutes throughout Europe. It is co-funded by the European Commission Directorate Research finanziell as part of the 5th framework programme.

His latest book just came out and it is entitled: "Education, Training and Employment Dynamics, Transitional Labour Markets in the European Union". It is a joined editorship with Philip J. O'Connell and published by Edward Elgar. ( Book Preview) The European information service  "European Access" already provides a short  book review to its members.

Klaus Schömann (1961 Vintage) grew up in Zeltingen at the Moselle. Primary education took place at the Volksschule Zeltingen-Rachtig and he received A-Level teaching at the Nikolaus von Kues Gymnasium in Bernkastel-Kues (District of Trier). In 1980 he started his academic studies on the Campus of the University of the Saarland in Saarbrücken in the subjects economics and politics. The opportunity to take part in the exchange program of the German Acadamic Exchange Officce (DAAD) led him to the University of Wales, College Cardiff in 1983. He graduated after two years with a B.Sc. in Economics and Politics in 1985 and after two more years with a M.Sc. in Economics in 1987 at the Cardiff Business School in the field of labour economics and a M.Sc thesis on "interregional migration of employees and unemployed persons" (Supervisor: Prof. R. McNabb). In 1987 he took up a Ph.D. scholarship from the der Max-Planck-Foundation working at the Max-Planck-Institut for human development and education in Berlin. (Research Area  Education, Labour and Society with director  Prof. K.U. Mayer). During the following two years of intensive collaboration with  Prof. H.P. Blossfeld, Prof. M.T. Hannan und Prof. B. Mach lead after another two years of working as associate expert at UNESCO in the field of statistics of education in Paris to a dissertation and Ph.D. at the Free University of Berlin in 1991 in Sociology: Titel of Dissertation: The Dynamics of Labour Earnings over the life cycle. (Examiners:  Prof. K.U. Mayer und Prof. H.P. Blossfeld)