Projects of the Research Unit Labour Markets and Social Insurance

Laufende Projekte

  1. Project // 01.10.2024 – 30.09.2027

    STARK-MIT-DIBI: Empowerment of girls with a migrant background through digital education

    Digital education is becoming increasingly important for individual educational biographies and societal participation in the ever-evolving technological world. This is evidenced, among others, by reports from the…

  2. Project // 01.09.2024 – 31.08.2027

    The Short- and Long-Run Impact of Primary Care Insurance on Health Care Utilization, Spending and Health

    The objective of the project is to study the short-, medium, and long-run effects of health insurance – focused on primary care – on health care utilization, spending and diagnosed diseases. We will evaluate a…

  3. Project // 01.02.2024 – 31.07.2027

    WinWin4WorkLife: Healthy, inclusive and sustainable remote work futures as a Win-Win for employees and employers

    WinWin4Worklife would like to help make flexible working arrangements (Remote Working Arrangements, RWA) in Europe healthy, integrative and sustainable.

    The project has five main objectives:
    1) to develop an…

  4. Project // 01.10.2023 – 31.12.2027

    Digital Transformation and Changing World of Work – DiWaBe 2.0

    The digital transformation and the associated increase in the use of artificial intelligence are leading to fundamental structural change in the world of work. In order to take a closer look at the effects on…

  5. Project // 01.10.2023 – 31.12.2026

    Exploring the Roots of Migration: An Intergenerational Analysis of Opportunities Maximization and Public Goods

    This project aims to contribute to the literature on the economics of migration and human capital formation by analysing an administrative dataset of over four million Italian emigrants worldwide. 

    The project…

  6. Project // 01.01.2023 – 31.12.2027

    Jacobs Foundation Research Fellowship

    The Jacobs Foundation Research Fellowship Program is a globally competitive fellowship program for early and mid-career researchers whose work is dedicated to improving the learning and development of children and…

  7. Project // 15.07.2022 – 31.07.2027

    Work Disability and Labour Supply

    This project empirically and theoretically evaluates social insurance systems for work disability. Almost all OECD countries provide universal coverage for short-term, long-term and permanent work disability.…

  8. Project // 01.06.2022 – 31.05.2027

    Economic Upheaval and Human Capital Formation

    The aim of the project is to empirically analyze the long-term and intergenerational consequences of economic upheavals on human capital formation. Human capital formation is seen as a key mechanism to increase…

  9. Project // 01.10.2012 – 31.12.2026

    College for Interdisciplinary Educational Research (CIDER)

    Various institutes of the Leibniz Association, including ZEW Mannheim, as well as institutes outside the Leibniz Association, participate in the College for Interdisciplinary Educational Research.

    The College for…