The Research Unit “Pensions and Sustainable Financial Markets” analyses the challenges to pension systems and the financial sector posed by global trends – such as demographic change, digitisation and climate change.
The Research Unit “Labour Markets and Social Insurance” examines institutional frameworks and structural changes of labour markets in Europe and America. It analyses labour market outcomes of individuals, firms and regions.
The Research Unit “Digital Economy” is renowned for its expertise in measuring digitalisation and analysing its economic impact.
The Research Group “Health Care Markets and Health Policy” is dedicated to the analysis of health care markets and the evaluation of health policy measures.
The Research Unit “Economics of Innovation and Industrial Dynamics” investigates the behaviour of firms under dynamic market conditions.
The Research Unit “Market Design” focuses on the analysis and optimisation of markets.
The Research Unit “Environmental and Climate Economics” investigates the role that individual and collective human behaviour, markets and institutions play in the emergence and solution of environmental problems. We focus in particular on issues of climate change and sustainable energy supply.
The Research Group “Inequality and Public Policy” analyses the distributional effects of social policies.
The “Corporate Taxation and Public Finance” Research Unit addresses questions related to corporate taxation and empirical public economics within the context of European integration.
Dr. Jan Fries worked for ZEW in the Unit “Labour Markets and Social Insurance”.
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Jacobs University Bremen, Germany
European Association of Labour Economists (EALE), Maastricht, Netherlands
European Economic Association (EEA), Milan, Italy
Fries, Jan, Christian Göbel and Michael F. Maier (2014), Do Employment Subsidies Reduce Early Apprenticeship Dropout?, Journal of Vocational Education & Training 66 (4), 433-461.
Zwick, Thomas, Christian Göbel and Jan Fries (2013), Age-Differentiated Work Systems Enhance Productivity and Retention of Old Employees, in: Christopher Marc Schlick, Ekkehart Frieling, Jürgen Wegge Springer-Verlag , Heidelberg, 25-44
Fries, Jan (2014), Age and Skill Bias of Trade Liberalisation? Heterogeneous Employment Effects of EU Eastern Enlargement, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 14-113, Mannheim
Fries, Jan, Christian Göbel and Michael F. Maier (2013), Do Employment Subsidies Reduce Early Apprenticeship Dropout?, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 13-053, Mannheim
Boockmann, Bernhard, Jan Fries and Christian Göbel (2012), Specific Measures for Older Employees and Late Career Employment, IAW Discussion Papers , Tübingen.
Boockmann, Bernhard, Jan Fries and Christian Göbel (2012), Specific Measures for Older Employees and Late Career Employment, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 12-059, Mannheim
Bonin, Holger, Jan Fries, Annette Hillerich-Sigg, Michael F. Maier and Thomas Walter (2014), Begleitforschung "Auswirkungen des Ausbildungsbonus auf den Ausbildungsmarkt und die öffentlichen Haushalte", Abschlussbericht, Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales (BMAS), Berlin
Bonin, Holger, Jan Fries, Michael F. Maier, Isabel Matk, Jens Mohrenweiser, Florian Niedlich, Friedhelm Pfeiffer, Johannes Ziemendorff and Lena Ziesmann (2012), Abschlussbericht Forschungsprojekt BERUFSSTART plus, Mannheim
Bonin, Holger, Jan Fries, Michael F. Maier and Thomas Walter (2010), Vorstudie zur Evaluation der Fördermaßnahmen für Jugendliche im SGB II und SGB III, Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales (BMAS), Berlin
Bradler, Christiane, Jan Fries, Christian Göbel and Michael F. Maier (2010), Begleitforschung - Auswirkungen des Ausbildungsbonus auf den Ausbildungsmarkt und die öffentlichen Haushalte, Zwischenbericht, Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales (BMAS), Berlin
