Business and Personnel Economics
Welcome to the Professorship for Business and Personnel Economics!
The Professorship of Prof. Uschi Backes-Gellner is part of the Department of Business Administration.
We carry out research in three main fields, namely, Personnel Economics, Education and Innovation Economics and Industrial Relations. A special emphasis of our work is the empirical analysis of firm-level data.
Our research is supported by third-party funds from the Swiss Federal Office for Professional Education and Technology (Swiss Leading House Economics of Education, Firm Behaviour and Training Policies, together with Prof. Stefan Wolter, University of Berne), the Swiss National Science Foundation, the German National Science Foundation, the Volkswagen Foundation, and the Jacobs Foundation.
Our Study programs:
- Bachelor program in Business Administration
- Master program in Business Administration and Management & Economics
- Minor program in Managing Education
- PhD-Program in Business Administration and Management & Economics. Apply now.
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Ausschreibung Studentische Hilfskraft (19%)
Die Professur für Business and Personnel Economics bietet zusammen mit dem Swiss Leading House „Economics of Vocational and Professional Education and Training VPET-ECON“ per sofort oder zum Herbstsemester 2026 eine Stelle als studentische Hilfskraft (19% - 8h/Woche) on-site an.
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Chiara Zisler successfully defended her dissertation. Congratulations!
Her dissertation is titled "Bridging knowledge gaps: From immigrant integration to organizational innovation" and was supervised by Uschi Backes-Gellner and Eric Bettinger.
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Andreas F. Bühler successfully defended his dissertation. Congratulations!
His dissertation is titled “The Interplay Between Education and Innovation: The Role of Occupational Choices and Skill Updating” and was supervised by Uschi Backes-Gellner and Samuel Mühlemann.
