The on-going demographic change increases the importance for firms to retain the most able and motivated employees. Firms will aim to influence employees’ propensity to stay with his or her current employer, by…
The central purpose of the proposed Priority Programme is to develop a deeper understanding of the challenges facing labour markets in Germany in particular and throughout Europe in a global context. The programme…
ZEW recently conducted a policy evaluation of subsidies for vocational training on the market for apprenticeships commissioned by the Federal ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (BMAS). The evaluation of the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…