Foto Eric Thode

Eric Thode: Senior Advisor

Sustainable Social Market Economies

Expertise

  • Labor market and employment​
  • Demographic change​
  • Structural change​
  • Taxation systems​
  • Guaranteed minimum pensions​
  • Further education and training

Short Vita

  • Eric Thode has been Senior Advisor for Employment and the Labor Market in the Bertelsmann Stiftung’s Sustainable Social Market Economies program since 2022. Since joining the foundation in 2001, he has held various positions, including Director of the Center for International Forums and Trends and the Rethinking Work program. After studying economics at Kiel University, he began his career in 1996 as a research assistant at the University of Würzburg. He was a lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences in Bielefeld and is the author of numerous articles on the labor market and social policy issues.

External Publications

  • Challenges for todays labor market policy (08.2013)
  • Falling labor share and rising unemployment - long-run consequences of institutional shocks?, German Economic Review, Vol. 3 (2002) 4, 431-459 (03.02.2002)
  • Securing pensions for the next fifty years - achievements of recent reforms in selected countries, CESifo DICE Report: Journal for Institutional Comparisions, Vol. 1 (2003) 1, 3-10 (10.2003)