§ 44b SGB II determines that employment offices (Agenturen für Arbeit) and municipal administrations, as responsible welfare institutions for job-seeking persons, shall establish consortiums in order to administer…
In this project, ZEW offers expertise with respect to the basic income scheme which should be modernized in Liechtenstein. The challenge is to combine the existing social insurance system with a modern…
The Social Code II (SGB II) has been introduced on January 1st 2005 and governs the merging of the former Unemployment Assistance (UA) and Social Assistance (SA) for able-bodied recipients. This project originates…
One crucial feature of most industrial countries tax-and-transfer system is the disincentive to work for the low qualified. The Swiss legislation commissioned an international expert group to assess the…
This project investigated the evolution of the wage distribution and wage inequality (since 1994), both for East and West Germany, based on samples from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) from 1984 to 2004,…
In this project the knowledge of employer and worker heterogeneity shall be deepened and especially the effects of heterogeneity on wages, productivity, employment changes and labour demand are to be examined. The…
Our client is interested in an assessment of the demographical problems in its specific labour market and an analysis of the different problem solving possibilities. Especially the age structure of the employees,…
This project explores the feasibility of an evaluation study regarding the operations of the German "Finanzkontrolle Schwarzarbeit", a task force of the Federal Customs Administration. In particular, the project…
In this project, we analyse the differences in employment durations of workers within the same enterprise. Apart from well-established theoretical approaches, such as human capital theory or search and matching…