Patrick Lehnert

Expertise

• Economics of Education
• Higher Education
• Personnel Economics
• Vocational Education
• Innovation and Economic Growth
• Occupational Choice
• Returns to Education
• Team Composition and Productivity
• Satellite Imagery

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  Patrick Lehnert

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  Patrick Lehnert is an assistant professor of personnel economics at the University of Zurich. His research examines how education contributes to innovation and economic growth, with a particular emphasis on vocational education.

  He holds a PhD in management and economics from the University of Zurich. He obtained his MS and BA from Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg.

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  Patrick Lehnert is an assistant professor of personnel economics at the University of Zurich. His research examines how education contributes to innovation and economic growth, with a particular emphasis on vocational education.

  Lehnert’s research spans three main areas: (1) the impacts of higher education institutions, (2) the role of vocational skills, and (3) the implications of educational and occupational choices. A central emerging insight from his research is the need to effectively integrate vocational education programs into existing innovation infrastructures, alongside continuous revisions given current economic and societal developments.

  In addition, Lehnert generates open-access data resources for the scientific community. For example, he used machine learning to develop a novel proxy for local economic activity based on daytime satellite imagery with global applicability.

  Lehnert holds a PhD in management and economics from the University of Zurich. He obtained his MS and BA from Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg.

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