The Basic Income promoted by Dieter Althaus (prime minister of the federal state Thüringen) combines several proposals for reforms of the german tax and transfer system. Elements of this Basic Income are: e.g.…
It is possible to quantify the structural unemployment either on an aggregate level using the time-series (e.g. estimation of the NAIRU) or on a more disaggregated level (e.g. regional data for estimation of the…
In this project, we intend to propose an efficient child benefit component for low- and middle-earning households in the frame of a reform of the family tax and benefit system (switch from marital splitting with…
Facing the high expenses in family policy, these expenses do not seem well targeted. The matter of regulation of child allowances appears to be one of the problem areas due to the fact that high-income families…
The project aims at analyzing collective bargaining in the German institutional context and highlights innovative forms and processes of collective bargaining. Modern and flexible regulations as a result of…
We investigated the distribution of returns to investments in cognitive and self-regulatory skills over the life cycle. In our simulation model, the distribution of returns to education results from the …
In this research project we analyse strategies to increase labour market flexibility of firms. Due to the constant rise in labour market requirements for all participants, firms need to react to the increasing…
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.