The Research Unit “Pensions and Sustainable Financial Markets” analyses the challenges to pension systems and the financial sector posed by global trends – such as demographic change, digitisation and climate change.
The Research Unit “Labour Markets and Social Insurance” examines institutional frameworks and structural changes of labour markets in Europe and America. It analyses labour market outcomes of individuals, firms and regions.
The Research Unit “Digital Economy” is renowned for its expertise in measuring digitalisation and analysing its economic impact.
The Research Group “Health Care Markets and Health Policy” is dedicated to the analysis of health care markets and the evaluation of health policy measures.
The Research Unit “Economics of Innovation and Industrial Dynamics” investigates the behaviour of firms under dynamic market conditions.
The Research Unit “Market Design” focuses on the analysis and optimisation of markets.
The Research Unit “Environmental and Climate Economics” investigates the role that individual and collective human behaviour, markets and institutions play in the emergence and solution of environmental problems. We focus in particular on issues of climate change and sustainable energy supply.
The Research Group “Inequality and Public Policy” analyses the distributional effects of social policies.
The “Corporate Taxation and Public Finance” Research Unit addresses questions related to corporate taxation and empirical public economics within the context of European integration.
Mr. Michael Maier worked for ZEW in the Unit “Labour Markets and Social Insurance”.
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Boockmann, Bernhard, Thomas Zwick, Andreas Ammermüller and Michael Maier (2012), Do Hiring Subsidies Reduce Unemployment Among Older Workers? Evidence From Two Natural Experiments, Journal of the European Economic Association 10 (4), 735-764.
Ammermüller, Andreas, Bernhard Boockmann, Michael Maier and Thomas Zwick (2006), Eingliederungszuschüsse und Entgeltsicherung für Ältere: Analysen auf der Basis natürlicher Experimente, Vierteljahreshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 75 (3), 49-66.
Schüler, Anja and Michael Maier (2006), Heterogeneous Returns to Training, Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 226/1, 24-40.
Boockmann, Bernhard, Thomas Zwick, Andreas Ammermüller and Michael Maier (2007), Do Hiring Subsidies Reduce Unemployment Among the Elderly? Evidence From Two Natural Experiments, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 07-001, Mannheim , published in : Journal of the European Economic Association
Gernandt, Johannes, Michael Maier, Friedhelm Pfeiffer and Julie Rat-Wirtzler (2006), Distributional Effects of the High School Degree in Germany, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 06-088, Mannheim
Schüler, Anja and Michael Maier (2006), Heterogeneous Returns to Training: An Analysis with German Data Using Local Instrumental Variables, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 06-002, Mannheim
Maier, Michael, Friedhelm Pfeiffer and Winfried Pohlmeier (2004), Returns to Education and Individual Heterogeneity, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 04-34, Mannheim
Boockmann, Bernhard, Thomas Zwick, Michael Maier, Sarah Bernhard, Ursula Jaenichen, Gesine Stephan, Matthias Schäffer, Martin Brussig, Matthias Knuth and (2006), Evaluation der Maßnahmen zur Umsetzung der Vorschläge der Hartz-Kommission, Eingliederungszuschüsse und Entgeltsicherung, Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Arbeit (GER), Mannheim
