 Schlicht has taught at the University of Bielefeld (1976–80), Technical University of Darmstadt (1980–93), and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (since 1993).He has also held guest professorships at University of Bonn (1975–76), Brown University (1987/88), the University of Minnesota (1991), University of Melbourne (1995), and University of California at Berkeley (2000/2001), as well as many further research positions.Schlicht's major contributions have been numerous works on labor economics, institutional economics, and economic methods.