Projects of the Research Unit Labour Markets and Social Insurance

Abgeschlossene Projekte

  1. Project // 01.03. – 30.06.2025

    Follow-up Study: “Mannheim in the Competition for Talent”

    This follow-up study updates the 2019 “Mannheim in the Competition for Talent” report, assessing changes in location preferences among highly skilled professionals. It focuses on the trends since the pandemic,…

  2. Project // 01.02.2024 – 31.03.2025

    The Empty Office: An International Study of Teleworking

    With the spread of remote work arrangements since the pandemic, there is growing interest in how remote working is changing the labour market and what the consequences are for the lives and well-being of workers.…

  3. Project // 01.08.2023 – 30.09.2024

    The interplay between pension policy and individual Health against the background of a changing world of work

    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…

  4. Project // 01.03.2023 – 30.09.2025

    Dynamic Interaction between Informal Long-Term Caregiving and Social Insurances in Germany

    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…

  5. Project // 01.09.2022 – 31.08.2025

    Horizon Europe: Welfare Systems and Labour Market Policies for Economic and Social Resilience in Europe

    Four megatrends — technological transformations, globalization, climate change, and demographic changes — are reshaping labor markets, redefining opportunities and risks, and posing new challenges for welfare…

  6. Project // 01.04.2021 – 31.07.2024

    Regional Economic Disparities in the Aftermath of the COVID-19 Outbreak: The Role of Digitalization and Working-from-Home

    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…

  7. Project // 15.02.2021 – 31.07.2024

    Labor Market Consequences of Covid-19 and the Digital Transformation

    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…

  8. Project // 01.02.2021 – 30.06.2024

    Analyses of the Costs and Benefits of School Closures for the Containment of COVID-19

    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…

  9. Project // 01.10.2020 – 31.10.2022

    The Quality of Employment and Firm Outcomes: A Panel Analysis of Recent Developments in German Establishments – Wave 5

    In this project, the fifth survey wave of the Linked Personnel Panel (LPP) was developed and evaluated together with a team led by Professor Dirk Sliwka from the University of Cologne and Prof. Patrick Kampkötter…