Prof. Dr. Silke Übelmesser

Current Positions

• 10/2020
  Friedrich Schiller University Jena
  Member of the Senate
• 05/2020
  Member of the Scientific Council of the Thuringian Government related to the Corona-Pandemic
• 09/2018
  Member of the Advisory Board of the Stability Council
• 9/2012
  Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Munich
  Research Professor
• 04/2012
  Friedrich Schiller University Jena
  Professor for Economics, in particular Public Finance

Membership 

• CESifo Research Fellow
• International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF)
• German Economic Association ("Verein für Socialpolitik")
  In particular: Committees for Population Economics and Public Finance
• Fellow Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano

At the Friedrich-Schiller University:

• Schumpeter Center for Research on Socio-Economic Change (JSEC)
• Doctoral Program "The Economics of Innovative Change" (DFG-RTG 1411)
• Aging Research Center Jena (ZAJ)

Past Academic Positions

• 10/2017 - 09/2020
  Friedrich Schiller University Jena
  Dean, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
• 10/2014 - 09/2017
  Friedrich Schiller University Jena
  Vice-Dean, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
• 10/2009 - 10/2010
  Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich
  Professor for Economics, in particular Public Finance (substituting Prof. Dr. Bernd Huber)
• 09/2003 - 03/2012
  Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich
  Postdoctoral Researcher Fellow, Center for Economic Studies
• 10/1999 - 09/2003
  Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich
  Teaching Assistant (Ph.D. Candidate), Center for Economic Studies

Past Positions of Research Management

• 10/200403/2012
  Programme Director, CESifo GmbH (Munich Society for the Promotion of Economic Research of the Economics Department of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, and the Ifo Institute)
• 09/200309/2004
  Accademic coordinator of the international visitors' program, Center for Economic Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich
• 08/200008/2003
  Deputy Director, CESifo GmbH

Education

• 2010
  Habilitation, Economics Department, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich
• 2003
  Dissertation, Economics Department, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich
• 04/199407/1999
  Studies of Economics at the Universities of Munich and Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (Dipl. Volkswirtin)

Research Stays

• 06-07/2016
  Center for Economic Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
• 04/2016
  Università Bocconi, Milan, Italy
• 0910/2007
  European University, Florence, Italy
• 09/200202/2003, 09/2003, 09/2004, 11/2006
  Università Bocconi, Milan, Italy
• 0709/1999
  OECD, Paris, France

Research Interests

• Public Finance
• Social Policy
• Old-Age Security
• Health Economics
• Demographic Change
• Education Economics
• Migration
• Political Economy

Monographs

• Uebelmesser, S. (2004): Unfunded Pension Systems: Ageing and Migration, Contributions to Economic Analysis 264, North-Holland: Amsterdam (Dissertation).
• Uebelmesser, S. (2010): Migration and Education: Fiscal and Non-Fiscal Implications (Habilitation).

Editorship

• Gérard, M. and S. Uebelmesser (2014): From Mobility of Students to Mobility of the Highly Skilled: Implications for Fiscal and Economic Policy, CESifo Seminar Se­ries, MIT Press, Cambr., MA. Brief review in June 2016 edition of  [pdf, 144 kb] deChoices

Articles in Refereed Journals

• Uebelmesser, S., A.-M. Sommerfeld and S. Weingarten (2021). A macro-level analysis of language learning and migration, German Economic Review (forthcoming).
• Roca Paz, R. and S. Uebelmesser (2021). Risk Attitudes and Migration Decisions, Journal of Regional Science 61, 649-684. (open access).
• d'Andria, D. and S. Uebelmesser (2021). The relationship between profit-sharing schemes and R&D intensity: evidence from German firm-level data", Industry and Innovation 28(8), 990-1016.
• Koenings, F., T. Haussen, S. Toepfer and S. Uebelmesser (2021). Coming to Stay or to Go? Stay Intention and Involved Uncertainty of International Students, Journal of Regional Science 61, 329-351. (open access).
• Koenings, F., G. Di Meo and S. Uebelmesser (2020). University Rankings as Information Source: Do they play a Different Role for Domestic and International Students?, Applied Economics 52(59), 6432-6447.
• Demange, G., R. Fenge and S. Uebelmesser (2020). Competition in the quality of higher education: the impact of student mobility. International Tax and Public Finance 27, 1224-1263 (open access).
• Haussen, T. and S. Uebelmesser (2018): No Place like Home? Graduate Migration in Germany, Growth and Change: A Journal of Urban and Regional Policy 349, 442-472.
• Haussen, T. and S. Uebelmesser (2018): Job Changes and Interregional Migration of Graduates, Regional Studies 52, 1346-1359.
• Uebelmesser, S., M. Huber and S. Weingarten (2018): The German Language Worldwide: A New Dataset on Language Learning, CESifo Economic Studies 64(1), 2018. 103-121.
• Stark, O., L. Byra, A. Casarico and S. Uebelmesser (2017): A Critical Comparison of Migration Policies: Entry Fee versus Quota, Regional Science and Urban Economics 66, 91-107.
• Haussen, T. and S. Uebelmesser (2016): Student and Graduate Migration and its Effect on the Financing of Higher Education, Education Economics 24(6), 573-591.
• Hessami, Z. and S. Uebelmesser (2016): A Political-Economy Perspective on Social Expenditures: Corruption and In-Kind versus Cash Transfers, Economics of Governance 17(1), 71-100.
• Demange, G., R. Renge and S. Uebelmesser (2015): Quality of Education and the Number of Students: A General-Equilibrium Analysis, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE) 171(3), 456-477.
• Borck, R., S. Uebelmesser and M. Wimbersky (2015): Political Economics of Higher Education Finance with Mobile Individuals, FinanzArchiv / Public Finance Analysis 71, 82-105.
• Fuchs, K. and S. Uebelmesser (2014): Can There Be Too Much Privatization? The Role of Political Incentives, CESifo Economic Studies 60(4), 722-746.
• Demange, G., R. Fenge and S. Uebelmesser (2014): Financing Higher Education in a Mobile World, Journal of Public Economic Theory 16, 343-371.
• Geis, W., S. Uebelmesser and M. Werding (2013): How Do Migrants Choose Their Destination Country? An Analysis of Institutional Determinants, Review of International Economics 21, 825-840.
• Hessami, Z. and S. Uebelmesser (2013): Empirical Determinants of In-Kind Redistribution: Partisan Biases and the Role of Inflation, Economics Letters 118, 318-320.
• Casarico, A., C. Devillanova, O. Stark and S. Uebelmesser (2012): On the Formation of International Migration Policies when no Country Has an Exclusive Policy-Setting Say, Regional Science and Urban Economics 42, 420-429.
• Geis, W., S. Uebelmesser and M. Werding (2011): Why Go to France or Germany, if You Could as Well Go to the UK or the US? Selective Features of Immigration to Four Major OECD Countries, Journal of Common Market Studies 49, 767-796.
• Becker, B. and S. Uebelmesser (2010): Health Insurance Competition in Germany - the Role of Advertising, Schmollers Jahrbuch 130, 169-194.
• Haupt, A. and S. Uebelmesser (2009): Voting on Labour-Market Integration and Education Policy when Citizens Differ in Mobility and Ability, Public Finance and Management 9 (Special Issue: Heterogeneity, Spatial Voting and Public Policy), 360-392.
• Demange, G., R. Fenge and S. Uebelmesser (2008): The Provision of Higher Education in a Global World - Analysis and Policy Implications, CESifo Economic Studies, 248-276.
• Boerner, K. and S. Uebelmesser (2007): Migration and the Welfare State: The Economic Power of the Non-Voter?, International Tax and Public Finance 14, 93-111.
• Mikosch, H. and S. Uebelmesser (2007): Staatsverschuldungsunterschiede im internationalen Vergleich und Schlussfolgerungen für Deutschland, Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik 4, 309-334.
• Fenge, R., S. Uebelmesser and M. Werding (2006): On the Optimal Timing of Implicit Social Security Taxes over the Life Cycle, FinanzArchiv 62, 68-107.
• Uebelmesser, S. (2006): To Go or Not to Go: Emigration from Germany, German Economic Review 7, 211-231.
• Uebelmesser, S. (2004): Harmonisation of Old-Age Security within the European Union, CESifo Economic Studies 50, 717-743.
• Uebelmesser, S. (2004): Political Feasibility of Pension Reforms, Topics in Economic Analysis & Policy 4, Article 20.
• Thum, C. and S. Uebelmesser (2003): Mobility and the Role of Education as a Commitment Device, International Tax and Public Finance 10, 549-564.
• Sinn, H.-W. and S. Uebelmesser (2002): Pensions and the Path to Gerontocracy in Germany, European Journal of Political Economy 19, 153-158.

Chapters in Books

• Uebelmesser, S. (2020): "II. Räumliche Mobilität unter wirtschaftlicher Betrachtung", in: Görres-Gesellschaft (ed.): Staatslexikon, Band 4, 8. Auflage, Freiburg im Breisgau: Verlag Herder, 2020, 49-51.
• Uebelmesser, S. (2016): "The Economics of Free Movement and Market Integration", in: M. Ruffert (ed.): European Economy and People's Mobiliy, Studien zum  europäischen und deutschen Öffentlichen Recht (EuDÖR), Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2016, 71-81.
• Uebelmesser, S. (2016): "Die Richtigen?!", in: G. Felbermayr, M. Knoche and L. Wäßmann (eds.): Hans-Werner Sinn und 25 Jahre Wirtschaftspolitik, Hanser, Munich, 232-233.
• Gérard, M. and S. Uebelmesser (2014): "Financing Higher Education when Students and Graduates are Internationally Mobile", in: M. Gérard und S. Uebelmesser (eds.): From Mobility of Students to Mobility if the Highly Skilled: Implications for Fiscal and Economic Policy, CESifo Seminar Series, MIT Press, Cambr., MA, 145-188.
• Gérard, M. and S. Uebelmesser (2014): "Introduction", in: M. Gérard und S. Uebelmesser (eds.): From Mobility of Students to Mobility if the Highly Skilled: Implications for Fiscal and Economic Policy, CESifo Seminar Series, MIT Press, Cambr., MA, 1-12.
• Gérard, M. and S. Uebelmesser (2013): "Universités et Hautes Ecoles belges dans le nouveau paysage de l'enseignement supérieur Européen : performance et défis", in: Ph. Maystadt et al. (eds.): Le modéle social belge: quel avenir? 20ème Congrès des économistes belges de langue française, Presses Interuniversitaires de Charleroi, Charleroi 889-923.
• Uebelmesser, S. (2013): Wider den Fachkräftemangel: Bildung und Migration, in: K. Konrad u. a. (eds.): Die Zukunft der Wohlfahrtsgesellschaft, Campus Verlag, Frankfurt, 169-192.
• Casarico, A., C. Devillanova, O. Stark and S. Uebelmesser (2009): International Migration, Human Capital Formation and the Setting of Migration Control Policies: Mapping the Gains, in: J. Kornai, L. Mátyás and G. Roland (eds.): Corruption, Development and Institutional Design, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 169-186.
• Casarico, A., O. Stark and S. Uebelmesser (2009): An Optimal Selective Migration Policy in the Absence of Symmetric Information and in the Presence of Skill Formation Incentives, in: J. Kornai, L. Mátyás and G. Roland (eds.): Corruption, Development and Institutional Design, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 152-168.
• Uebelmesser, S. (2007): Modernisierung der Sozialsysteme und Europäisierung der Sozialpolitik in Zeiten der Globalisierung, in: C. Linzback, U. Lübking, S. Scholz and B. Schulte (eds.): Globalisierung und Eurpäisches Sozialmodell, Nomos, Baden-Baden, 192-195.

Book Review

• "Book Review: Yoshida, C., and Woodland, D.: The Economics of Illegal Immigration", Journal of Economics 89, 2006, 192-195.

Working Papers

• Bareinz, P. and S. Uebelmesser (2020): The Role of Information Provision for Attitudes Towards Immigration: An Experimental Investigation, CESifo Working Paper No. 8635, Munich.
• Maghularia, R. and S. Uebelmesser (2019): Do Immigrants Affect Crime? Evidence from Panel Data for Germany, CESifo Working Paper No. 7696, Munich.
• Huber, M. and S. Uebelmesser (2019): Presence of Language-Learning Opportunities and Migration, CESifo Working Paper No. 7569, Munich.
• Haupt, A. and S. Uebelmesser (2014): Labour Market Integration, Human Capital Formation, and Mobility, Jena Economic Research Papers (JERP) 2014-020, Jena.
• Gérard, M. and S. Uebelmesser (2014): Financing Higher Education when Students and Graduates are Internationally Mobile, Jena Economic Research Papers (JERP) 2014-009, Jena.
• Becker, B. and S. Uebelmesser (2010): The Impact of Print Media Advertising on Public Health Insurance Switching in Germany, mimeo, University of Munich.
• Casarico, A., O. Stark and S. Uebelmesser (2010): Why and How Using a Tax Barrier to Select Migrants is Affected by Skill Formation Procedures in the Sending Country, mimeo, University of Munich.

Research Reports

• "The Role and Impact of Labour Taxation Policies" (coordinators: Alessandra Casarico et al.; own role: expert for Germany and Austria), Report for the European Commission (Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities DG), 2010-11.
• "Fiskalische Wirkungen der Auswanderung ausgewählter Berufsgruppen" (with Christian Holznre and Sonja Munz), Report for the Expert Council of German Foundations on Integration and Migration (SVR), 2009.
• "Labour Mobility in Europe: Who Migrates Where, and Why?" (with Martin Werding, Kai A. Konrad, Sonja Munz, Herbert Hofmann - in cooperation with Gilles Saint-Paul), Report within the framework of the Leibniz project "how to Construct Europe? Challenges for the European Welfare State", 2007-2008.
• "International Economic Research and Policy Advice in Europe: Assessment of Institutional Capacities" (with Siegfried Schönherr, Jutta Albrecht, Heidemarie Sherman), Report for the Federal Ministry of Finance, 2003.
• "Old-Age Provision in Ageing Societies: Equity, Efficiency, and Sustainability" (with Robert Fenge and Martin Werding), Report for the Eocnomic and Social Research Institute (ESRI, Japan), 2002.

Other Publications

For the statements of the Independent Advisory Board of the Stability Council regarding compliance with the upper limit for the structural general government budget deficit, please see here (German) and here (English).

• Uebelmesser, S. (2020): Investitionsstau: Verhindert die schwarze Nukk eine flächendeckende Mdernisierung Deutschland? - Contra, VBKI Spiegel #258, 29/40.
• Maghularia, R. and S. Uebelmesser (2019): Zuwanderung und Kriminalität in Deutschland, ifo Dresden berichtet 5/2019, Dresden, 20-25.
• Casarico, A. and S. Uebelmesser (2018): Migration Policies and the Highly Skilled, ifo DICE Report 2018/1, 28-33.
• Uebelmesser, S. (2017): Learn German - And Then What?, German Research 3/2017, Magazine of the German Science Foundation (DFG), 8-11. (also published in German as "Erst Deutsch lernen? Und dann?, forschung 3/2017, 8-11).
• Haußen, T. and S. Uebelmesser (2016): Mobile Studenten, Forschung & Lehre 6/16, 492-493.
• Haußen, T. and S. Uebelmesser (2015): Mobilität von Hochschulabsolventen in Deutschland, ifo Dresden berichtet 2/2015, Dresden, 42-50.
• Haußen, T., J. Heider and S. Uebelmesser (2014): Wanderungsverhalten von Hochschulabsolventen, Thüringer Memo, Thüringer Ministerium für Wirtschaft, Arbeit und Technologie.
• Gérard, M. and S. Uebelmesser (2013): Globalization and access to higher education - policy implications, CESifo DICE Report 2013/2, 3-10.
• Uebelmesser, S. (forthcoming): Contributions about: Einwanderungspolitik (Punktesystem), Einwanderungspolitik (Quotensystem), (Arbeitnehmer-)Freizügigkeit in der EU, Green Card, Blue Card, Einbürgerungsprinzipien (ius snguinis; ius soli), MIPEX, Fachkräftemangel (MINT), Wohlfahrtsmagnet ("welfare magnet"), Elemente der Zuwanderungspolitik (Integrationskurs, Vorrangprüfung, Verdienstgrenze), Internet-Lexikon der Volkswirtschaft (ifo Lex), Ifo Institute, Munich.
• Uebelmesser, S. (2013): Bildung für die Zukunft, Zukunftsreader 2020, Thüringer Ministerium für Wirtschaft, Arbeit und Technologie, 108-111.
• Uebelmesser, S. (2011): Zuwanderungspolitik - Wir müssen Deutschland für qualifizierte Arbeitskräfte attraktiv machen, in: G. Milbradt, G. Nerb, W. Ochel and H.-W. Sinn (eds.): Der ifo Wirtschaftskompass, Carl Hanser Verlag Munich, 94-95.
• Uebelmesser, S. (2011): Einwanderung - Keine Lösung des Bevölkerungsproblems, in: G. Milbradt, G. Nerb, W. Ochel and H.-W. Sinn (eds.): Der ifo Wirtschaftskompass, Carl Hanser Verlag Munich, 90-91.
• Holzner, C., S. Munz and S. Uebelmesser (2009): Fiskalische Wirkungen der Auswanderung ausgewählter Berufsgruppen, ifo Schnelldienst 17, 28-33.
• Sinn, H.-W. and S. Uebelmesser (2000): Rentenreform, strategische Mehrheit und demographische Entwicklung: Wann kipps Deutschland um?, ifo Schnelldienst 28-29, 20-25.

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2019-2023
BMAS (Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs) Project "Verständnis und Haltungen zur Altersvorsorge in Deutschland: Ausprägungen und Auswirkungen auf vorsorgebezogenes Verhalten (VHAlt)" (Understanding and Attitudes about Old-age Security in Germay: Manifestation and Consequences for Preventive Behaviour) (with C. Aprea, University of Mannheim)

2019-2022
ESF (European Social Fonds) Project "WOM Weltoffen miteinander arbeiten. Maßnahmen zur Steigerung der personalpolitischen Zukunftsfähigkeit Thüringer Unternehmen" (WOM Working together in Thuringia. Policies to improve the outlook of Thuringian companies) (with J. Bolten and S. Henn)

2018-2021
DFG (German Science Foundation) Project "Investitionen in Sprachkenntnisse und Migrationsentscheidungen" (Language-Skill Investments and Migration Decisions) (with P. Poutvaara, Ifo Institute)

2016-2019
ESF (European Social Fonds) Project "Erschließung exogener Potenziale zur Verringerung des drohenden Fachkräftemangels in Thüringen: Zur besonderen Rolle internationaler Studierender und hochqualifizierter Arbeitskräfte" (Activating exogenous potentials to reduce the projected skill shortage in Thuringia: the special role of international students and highly qualified workers) (with S. Henn and C. Hillinger)

2015-2017
DFG (German Science Foundation) Project "Spracherwerb und Migration" (Language Learning and Migration)

2014
Report for the Thuringia Ministry for Economics, Labor and Technology about "Wanderungsverhalten von Hochschulabsolventen" (Migration Choice of University Graduates) (with T. Haussen and J. Heider)

• Contribution to the ARD's "Future Podcast" (man angenommen) about an equity-based pension system (Gesetzliche Aktienrente), 2021: https://t.co/BbVNPNSAkG?amp=1
• Article about conclusion of th ESF project "Erschließung exogener Potenziale zur Verringerung des drohenden Fachkräftemangels in Thüringen: Zur besonderen Rolle internationaler Studierender und hochqualifizierter Arbeitskräfte": "Willkommenskultur ist auch Selbsthilfe", Ostthüringer Zeitung, 18 April 2019.
• Article about results of the ESF project "Erschließung exogener Potenziale zur Verringerung des drohenden Fachkräftemangels in Thüringen: Zur besonderen Rolle internationaler Studierender und hochqualifizierter Arbeitskräfte": "Bachelor-Studenten bleiben gern in Thüringen", Ostthüringer Zeitung, 21 September 2018.
• Article about DFG-funded project "Language-Skill Investments and Migration Decisions":
  - "Büffeln fürs spätere Auswandern?", Ostthüringer Zeitung, 3 February 2018.
• Statement about "DGB weist auf Schieflage im Rentensystem hin", TV report, MDR Thüringen (Thüringen Journal), 31 May 2017
• Report/interview about ESF project "Erschließung exogener Potenziale zur Verringerung des drohenden Fachkräftemangels in Thüringen: Zur besonderen Rolle internationaler Studierender und hochqualifizierter Arbeitskräfte":
  - TV report, MDR Thüringen (Thüringen Journal), 14 November 2016.
  - "Verborgener Schatz: Ausländische Studenten sollen häufiger bleiben", Ostthüringer Zeitung, 15 November 2016.
• Interview about "Was könnte Ausländer an Thüringen reizen?", Ostthüringer Zeitung, 4 June 2016.
• Interview about "Sind ökonomische Vorteile von Migration messbar?", Ostthüringer Zeitung, 7 November 2015.
• "Ein- und Auswanderung aus ökonomischer Sicht", Interview MDR Info, 6 November 2015.
• Articles about DFG-funded project "Language Learning and Migration":
  - "Deutsch lernen auf gepackten Koffern: FSU Jena erforscht Spracherwerb von Migranten", Ostthüringer Zeitung - online version, 14 July 2015.
  - "Spracherwerb und Migration", Thüringer Landeszeitung, 18 July 2015.
• Article/interview about "Millionenschwerer Bildungsexport ohne Ausgleich", Ostthüringer Zeitung, 31 December 2014.
• "Funding Higher Education in a Mobile World", University World News, No. 326, 27 June 2014 (with Marcel Gérard).
• "Land kann Berufseinstieg für Akademiker attraktiver machen", Thüringische Landeszeitung, 19 July 2013. (Also published in Ostthüringer Zeitung - online version).
• Interview about "Studiengebühren", Ostthüringer Zeitung, 18 May 2013.
• "Das Ende der Studiengebühren", Süddeutsche Zeitung, 13 May 2013.