The project will conduct a comprehensive and systematic evaluation of reforms of the Arbeitslosengeld II and other transfer payments, with the aim of improving work incentives in the low wage sector. The key…
The performance of employees is increasingly seen as an important contribution to the overall firm success. The relevance of human resource management as a strategic tool is thus also increasing. Besides the…
The German system of higher education currently faces many reforms concerning the organization of degrees, the profiling of universities and financing aspects. These reforms are mainly said to aim at the …
This subproject of the interdisciplinary project "An infrastructure for the analysis of social networks" deals with the economic analysis of social links in online networks. It considers networks for entertaining…
In this project, we will evaluate how the introduction of free school choice in Sweden in 1992 has affected students’ results. Has school choice and competition between schools increased average student…
This project analyses effectiveness of different age-specific production systems on the outcome variables productivity, turnover, and age structure of the workforce from a human resource as well as an economic…
Labour market programmes for promotion of young people below 25 years within Social Code II and Social Code III have up to now only been evaluated partially, non-systematically or by surveying the programmes.…
In line with the persistence of the gender wage gap and the high political relevance of the topic, the empirical literature on this subject is substantial. Particular emphasis has been placed on the role of…
The ZEW is one of the pioneers of microsimulation in Germany; its model STSM has been in active use since the late 1990s. The aim of the present project is to rewrite the model's program code, taking into…