The aim of the project is to empirically analyze the long-term and intergenerational consequences of economic upheavals on human capital formation. Human capital formation is seen as a key mechanism to increase…
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…
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…
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…
The project provides short reports and dialogue formats on labor market and social policy issues to the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs. The purpose is to inform the current debate and the political…
Against the background of the strong immigration to Germany in recent years, the role of the welfare state and its legitimacy are discussed controversially. On the one hand, social policy supports the integration…
The policy question analyzed in this project is how the incentives of public decision-makers may impede the implementation of admissions rules that are both fair and efficient, reduce social segregation and…
Various institutes of the Leibniz Association, including ZEW Mannheim, as well as institutes outside the Leibniz Association, participate in the College for Interdisciplinary Educational Research.
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…