The 2001 pension reform in Germany substantially altered the public DI system, by changing the job-related eligibility criterion from “own-occupation” insurance to “any-occupation” insurance as well as reducing…
Public spending on healthcare makes up a substantial part of government expenditure in developed countries. Even though the gradient between income and measures of health is well known most studies on inequality…
The goal of this project is to develop an expertise which, based on quantitative and qualitative analyses of the challenges arising from the current Corona-Crisis for German local communities, shall propose…
This study for the parliamentary group of Bündnis 90/Die Grünen utilizes the ZEW-Mikrosimulation-Model and houshold survey-data from the German Socio-economic Panel (SOEP) to evaluate a proposed…
The objective of this research project – which is financed by the Leibniz-ScienceCampus MannheimTaxation – is to study the causal effect of unemployment insurance benefit levels on the probability to become…
As part of the 6th report on poverty and wealth of the German federal government this project analyzes the distributional aspects of the provision of public services. Three closely integrated modules focus on…
The objective of this research project is to study the causal effect of potential unemployment insurance benefit duration on the actual unemployment duration of unemployed individuals that start a business, their…
The challenges accompanying demographic change have led many European economies to fundamentally reform their retirement systems by increasingly moving…