Projects of the Research Unit Labour Markets and Social Insurance

Abgeschlossene Projekte

  1. Project // 01.07.2019 – 31.12.2020

    College Openings and Local Economic Development

    The opening and expansion of higher education institutions are often considered by decision-makers as promising place-based policies to decrease disparities between regions. This project investigated how the…

  2. Project // 01.07.2019 – 31.03.2021

    SEEK Project 2019: Social Mobility and Economic Performance

    Many countries in Europe and other parts of the world are characterized by increasing income inequality and low, often stagnating levels of upward mobility. This often goes hand in hand with lower economic…

  3. Project // 01.05.2019 – 31.03.2021

    SEEK Project 2019: Wage Inequality, Labour Shares and ICT

    The project aims to study the role of new information and communication technology (ICT) in the evolution of wage inequality and labour shares in Germany using micro-level data on employees and employers.…

  4. Project // 01.01.2019 – 31.12.2021

    The Design of Firms Internal Labour Markets Under Asymmetric Information

    Designing internal labour markets and reducing frictions in employee retention is an important challenge for human resource management (HRM). The aim of the project was twofold. The first part investigated…

  5. Project // 01.10.2018 – 30.09.2019

    Understanding Public Attitudes and Political Preferences in the Context of Automatization of the Labour Force

    The increased use of automation and digitization at the work place is an important part of the public and academic debate on the future role of work in modern societies and potential reforms of the welfare state.…

  6. Project // 01.09.2018 – 30.04.2021

    Job-Related Availability During Leisure Time

    Modern information and communication technologies (ICT) are an important source of changing working conditions. Recently, employees continuously increased their job-related…

  7. Project // 01.08.2018 – 31.12.2019

    Employment Effects of Humanitarian Immigration on Previous Migrant Groups

    In the years 2015 and 2016 more than one million asylum seekers arrived in Germany affecting the labour market in different ways: On the one hand these asylum seekers had to be accommodated and taken care of,…

  8. Project // 01.04.2018 – 30.09.2020

    The Quality of Employment and Firm Outcomes: a Panel Analysis of Recent Developments in German Establishments – Wave 4

    Jointly with a team around Professor Dirk Sliwka, University of Cologne, and Prof. Patrick Kampkötter, University of Tübingen, and on behalf of the Institute for Labour Market Research (IAB), this project develops…

  9. Project // 01.03.2018 – 15.12.2020

    Fiscal and Individual Returns to Education

    The project examines individual and fiscal returns to education. The project has two sections. Section one analyses the relationship between educational background and unemployment, employment, and hours of…