About 19% of the population living in Germany possesses a migration background. A migration background is given if the person or its physical parents is born abroad and if the persons or his/her parents possesses…
Dieter Althaus - the Minister President of Thuringia - proposed a so-called unconditional basic income scheme. A study of Opielka/Strengmann-Kuhn (2006) on this proposal is analysed in this project.
The project mainly tackles two questions. On the one hand, the incidence of seniority wages in Germany is calculated. We look if wages increase stronger in Germany with seniority than in other countries. On the…
The project's aim is to analyse empirically the inflow of employees into unemployment assistance scheme (Arbeitslosengeld 2) and the factors affecting it using the process data of the Federal Labor Office…
This project analyzed the effect of kindergarten attendance on school attainment in Germany. School attainment was measured as secondary school track choice and school grades at age 16. Using longitudinal data…
Computable general equilibrium (CGE) models have become a standard tool to quantify the macroeconomic effects of political measures. Most models assume a representative agent and often abstract from the…
In a far-ranging reform to German social legislation, unemployment and social assistance have been joined into a common framework in 2005. In this project, the impacts of this reform for persons with migration…
The research unit "Neuropsychology of Childhood and Adolescence" at the Central Institute of Mental Health and the educational group at the ZEW cooperated to study different development and environmental risks…
In Germany, about 45 percentage of all employees are women. However, only one third of all skilled employees and executive managers are females and only one of ten jobs in the highest hierarchy level in the…