The development of traditional Regional Economics into what has been called New Economic Geography meant uniting all of the ZEW´s research departments into a collaborating team. Despite its clear roots in the…
The quintessence of the project were the questions to what extent changes in social security contributions affect labour costs and how the structure of the social security system has an impact on this relation.…
Gender differences in earnings and labour market participation are stylized facts of labour markets everywhere in the world. Researchers, politicians, and the public are therefore very much interested in this…
The recent interest in the economics of crime has been stimulated by the serious increase in crime rates in the western world on the one hand, and by recent demographic and socio-economic problems like youth…
The project´s aim is to establish and maintain a user-friendly modelling toolbox for the analysis of macroeconomic effects from labour market policy. Thus, besides our concern with consistent macroeconomic…
The number of empirical studies on the relationship between innovation and employment is still growing. But, the results of these studies are ambigous. Two important aspects are most of all neglected in existing…
The accession to the European Union is often regarded as the last hurdle to be overcome in the transformation process of the Central and Eastern European states. Ten years after the demise of their planned…
The goal of this project is to examine the determinants and employment impact of firm foundations and self-employment from theoretical and empirical viewpoints. In the theoretical part we will devise a model in…