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