The project aims at developing a coherent research and consulting strategy for the research area Personnel Economics within the department Labour Markets, Human Resources and Social Policy. The existing …
Demographic ageing in Europe has raised concerns that an ageing population weakens the competitiveness of knowledge-based economies by diminishing the economy’s capacity to generate technological advances. Our…
Performing causal analyses in the field of Economics of Education has been constrained by the lack of large panel datasets. With some exceptions, mostly in the UK and the US, most available datasets are…
The project extends the evaluation of German family policies by taking into account the life-cycle dimension. The study begins by documenting typical patterns of use of these measures over the life cycle. A…
In most European countries, including Germany, tertiary education is mostly publicly financed. It is therefore of central relevance for the State and for society that this investment of public means occurs in an…
Since 2010, only students are admitted to engineering in Germany who finish their studies with a Bachelor’s or a Master’s degree. In this project, we cooperate with VDI nachrichten (weekly newspaper of…
The current incentive system for the payment of scientists is being put to test more than ever. The 2005 salary reform for university teachers has paved the way for performance-oriented payment but has yet…
German family policy increasingly aims at setting incentives for an increase in the fertility rate and for reconciling family life and work. While demographic change makes these objectives highly desirable, it…
In this project, we study how earnings mobility in the low-wage sector has changed over the last two decades in Germany. The objective is to quantify the extent to which a potential decline in the probability…