Klaus F. Carpenter (* 2 December 1952 in is a professor for economic political sciences at the University of Bonn and fee professor of the free University of Berlin. Beyond that Carpenter is a president of the German institute for economic research (DIW) in Berlin as well as director of the research institute for the future of the work (IZA) in Bonn.

Klaus F. Carpenter is married with Dr. Astrid carpenter Trapp. They have two children.

Carpenter belonged to the most influential German economists and enjoys world-wide admittingness.

Academic career/development

Carpenter studied political economy and statistics at the University of Mannheim from 1973 to 1978. Its thesis (diploma) about "money and fiscal policy, written there. A theoretical and empirical investigation of their effectiveness with consideration of rational expectations" was distinguished of the Karin Islinger donation as the best thesis (diploma). It attained a doctorate 1984 to the topic "for the economic theory of the family. Woman gainful employment and birth development in the Federal Republic of Germany with special consideration of the consequences of the rationing, the habit formation and the state activity" (summa cum laude). Its Habilitationsschrift locked Carpenter 1987. Topic was "innovative Activity, Employment Decisions, and the Neoclassical Model OF the Firm: Theory and Practice". It received its venia legendi for the fan political economy and 1987 to 1989 he was first private lecturer at the University of Mannheim. In the following Carpenter was active as chair representatives at the University of Dortmund (1989) and the Ludwig Maximilians university Munich (1989), before he decided against the acceptance of a Professur at the University of Dortmund and became starting from June 1989 professor for political economy (emphasis economic theory) at the Ludwig Maximilians university Munich. After guest Professuren in Tilburg (the Netherlands), at the Humboldt university Berlin, the Kyoto University of (Japan), as well as at the Dartmouth college (the USA), it accepted 1998 the call to the University of Bonn, where it created at the same time Forschungsinstitut for the future of the work (IZA).

After it had deflected before the line ifo of the institute in Munich and the DIW in Berlin, Carpenter 2000 took over the presidency of the DIW. It is member of numerous scientific combinations and in relevant place in scientific consulting committees actively.

In its dual function as president of the DIW and a director of the IZA he is regularly present as Gastkommentator in German and international media. Beyond that he dedicates himself further to the scientific research in the areas of the work economics, population economics, migration, industrial economics and

Publications

Klaus F. Carpenter published than 30 books as author and a publisher more as well as over 170 essays in technical periodicals and anthologies (in the following a selection of the book publications).

• Carpenter, save, Wingen (Hrsg), connections between population and economic development in the Federal Republic of Germany. Conference volume 1984 of the German society for demography, Wiesbaden 1984.
• Carpenter, Theoretical and empirical investigations for the woman gainful employment and birth development, Berlin/Heidelberg/New York/Tokyo 1985
• Carpenter (Hrsg), demographic problems of the household economics, Bochum 1986
• Carpenter, Steinmann, Heilig (Hrsg), problems and chances of demographic development in the third world, conference volume 1988 of the German society for demography, Berlin/Heidelberg/New York/Tokyo 1988
• Carpenter (Hrsg), Economic Theory OF optimally population, Berlin/Heidelberg/New York/Tokyo 1989; 1997 in Chinese published with Beijing University press
• Carpenter, Steiner (Hrsg), social safety device and job market - analyses and reform beginnings, Baden-Baden 1996
• Carpenter, Bauer (Hrsg), work book Berlin/Heidelberg/New York/Tokyo 1997
• Carpenter, Riphan, Snower (Hrsg), Employment Policy in Transition: The Lessons OF German integration for the laboratory Market, Berlin/Heidelberg/New York/Tokyo 2001
• Carpenter, Schmidt, Fertig, Kluve (Hrsg), perspectives of the labor policy. International comparison and recommendations for Germany, Berlin/Heidelberg/New York/Tokyo 2001
• Carpenter, Bauer, Bonin, drive, Hinte, workforce requirements with high unemployment. An economic Zuwanderungskonzept for Germany, Berlin/Heidelberg/New York/Tokyo 2001
• Carpenter (Hrsg), new developments of the economic science, Heidelberg 2001
• Carpenter (Hrsg), Frontiers in Economics, Berlin/Heidelberg/New York/Tokyo 2002; 2004 in Chinese published with Chinese University press
• Carpenter, Bauer (Hrsg), The Economics OF migration. The migration Decision and immigration Policy. Volume. I; The Economics OF migration. Assimilation OF Migrants. Volume. II; The Economics OF migration. Quality and Behavior OF Migrants. Volume. III; The Economics OF migration. Migration and the native. Volume. IV, Cheltenham 2002
• Carpenter, Vogler (Hrsg), Family, Household and Work, Berlin/Heidelberg/New York/Tokyo 2003
• Carpenter, Herfurth, Kohli (Hrsg), work in an aging society. Problem areas and development tendencies of the acquisition situation of older ones, Leverkusen 2003
• Carpenter (Hrsg), reforms now! Thus with Germany again upward, Wiesbaden is 2003
• Carpenter, Constant (Hrsg), How laboratory Migrants far one, Berlin/Heidelberg/New York/Tokyo 2004
• Carpenter, Tranaes (Hrsg), Migrants, Work, and the Welfare State, Odense 2004
• Carpenter, Hinte, Zuwanderung and Arbeitsmarkt. Germany and Denmark in the comparison, Berlin/Heidelberg/New York/Tokyo 2005
• Carpenter (Hrsg), European migration: What DO incoming goods , Oxford/New York 2005
• Carpenter (Hrsg), Germany - which , 1. Edition, Munich, 2006

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• Homepage von Klaus F. Carpenter
• Interview with Klaus F. Carpenter over Migranten as an entrepreneur (pdf, 241 KB)

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