Heterogeneous health trajectories and occupational stresses are crucial for the labor market participation of older persons and thus for the transition to retirement. But how do health trajectories differentiate…
This project assesses the impact of social insurance on informal Long-Term-Care (LTC) provision by family members in Germany. Family members are the most important providers of informal outpatient LTC. While…
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…
Four megatrends — technological transformations, globalization, climate change, and demographic changes — are reshaping labor markets, redefining opportunities and risks, and posing new challenges for welfare…
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.…
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…
The project analyses how the COVID-19 crisis affects labour market disparities within and between German regions. We aim to quantify the short and medium-term employment effects and the contribution of firm…
The impact of the Corona pandemic on businesses and employees presumably depends, among other things, on how digitized businesses already were before the pandemic. If digitization proves to be an instrument for…
The aim of the project is to empirically assess the costs and benefits of school closures enacted in response to the spread of COVID-19. Benefits are measured by the contribution of the interventions to reduce the…