Dr Markus Janser

Dr Markus Janser is a senior researcher at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) and heads the IAB part of the FIS junior research group ‘Ecological transition, labour market, vocational and further training’. His research focuses on the labour market effects of environmental and climate policy, on regional impacts of the green transition and on occupational change.

He received his PhD from the Otto-Friedrich University of Bamberg (Department of Sociology). The title of his dissertation was: ‘The Greening of Jobs: Empirical studies on the relationship between environmental sustainability and the labour market’. Markus Janser studied Business Administration at the Bristol Business School (University of the West of England, Bristol, UK), where he graduated in 2004. He also studied at the Lutheran University of Applied Sciences in Nuremberg, Germany (EVHN), where he graduated with a diploma in social work in 2000.

He joined IAB in 2004 and worked there for nine years in the research management department before moving to the research department ‘Regional Labour Markets’ in 2013. Prior to his time at IAB, he gained further professional experience in the consultancy sector and in the public sector.