In her study, Amelie Schiprowski investigated the role played by case managers in helping jobseekers find employment and discovered that poor-quality support prolongs the time that someone will spend out of work. The panel rewarded her entry with the first prize out of all the submissions received from early-career researchers. Second prize in her category went to Jan Nimczik from the European School of Management and Technology in Berlin, with Hanno Foerster from Boston College in the US in third. The €150,000 prize for the best piece of research was won by the economist Bernd Fitzenberger, Director of the Institute for Employment Research in Nuremberg.
“With this award, we want to acknowledge researchers who look beyond the boundaries of their own subject and thus help to develop it further,” said Dr. Henneke Lütgerath, Chairman of the Executive Board of the Joachim Herz Foundation. “And our four prizewinners are doing so in exemplary fashion by taking approaches from sociology or psychology and incorporating them into their work. At the same time, they are delivering some key insights for the future viability of our world of work, e.g. by addressing the impact of digitalization and technological advancements on the job market.”
Amelie Schiprowski obtained her doctorate from the University of Potsdam in 2018 and was appointed Assistant Professor at the University of Bonn’s Department of Economics the following year. She is a member of the Institute for Applied Microeconomics and of the ECONtribute Cluster of Excellence at the Universities of Bonn and Cologne.
Joachim Herz Foundation press release
Press release “Schlechte Betreuung verlängert Arbeitslosigkeit” (October 2020; in German)
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Email: amelie.schiprowski@uni-bonn.de