Uta Schönberg is a German economist specializing in labor economics and microeconomics, including wage structures in Germany and elsewhere, and the effects of immigration, education, and family policy on labor.
She is chair of economics at the University of Hong Kong, on leave as professor of economics at University College London, and a research fellow of the IZA Institute of Labor Economics and the Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung [de].
Schönberg studied economics at the University of Hanover, earning a diploma (the German equivalent of a master's degree) in 1998.
[2] In 2008, she joined the Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB, the Nuremberg Institute for Employment Research), and returned to University College London as a lecturer, where she was promoted to reader in 2011 and professor in 2014.
[1] Schönberg received the Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2016.