Barely any quantitative research has been devoted yet to the labor market and health consequences of incarceration for political offenses, which seems particularly unfortunate against the background of Europe’s…
Against the background of the need of a higher effective retirement age, the study surveys the current position of the elderly in the German labor market. It discusses the conditions that would help fostering the…
The objective of the project is to develop an econometric structural equilibrium search model that can be used for ex-ante simulations of the introduction of a uniform minimum wage in Germany. The target of the…
The technological potential for separating work from the workplace is constantly increasing. Mobile devices, mobile internet access and remote access to firms’ internal networks and data allow for working anywhere…
This study assesses individual and fiscal returns to educational investments in Germany, based on the ZEW microsimulation model. Tertiary education is compared to higher secondary and vocational education and…
In this project, we aim to identify the medium- and long-term causal effects of attending kindergarten in Germany. More specifically, we will analyse empirically whether longer kindergarten attendance results in…
In this project, we study the evolution of wage mobility in Eastern Germany before unification and during the transition from a centrally planned to a market economy. We plan to exploit German pension register…
In this project we support the development of specific questions which will be included in the questionnaire of the "National Education Panel Study" (NEPS). The focus of these questions is on topics which are key…
The project analyses human resource strategies of German establishments which are applied to cope with skill shortages. Furthermore, the question is answered whether these strategies are in line with the…