Projects of the Research Unit Labour Markets and Social Insurance

Laufende Projekte

  1. Project // 01.10.2024 – 30.09.2027

    STARK-MIT-DIBI: Empowerment of girls with a migrant background through digital education

    Digital education is becoming increasingly important for individual educational biographies and societal participation in the ever-evolving technological world. This is evidenced, among others, by reports from the…

  2. Project // 01.02.2024 – 31.01.2026

    The Empty Office: An International Study of Teleworking

    With the spread of remote work arrangements since the pandemic, there is growing interest in how remote working is changing the labour market and what the consequences are for the lives and well-being of workers.…

  3. Project // 01.02.2024 – 31.07.2027

    WinWin4WorkLife: Healthy, inclusive and sustainable remote work futures as a Win-Win for employees and employers

    WinWin4Worklife would like to help make flexible working arrangements (Remote Working Arrangements, RWA) in Europe healthy, integrative and sustainable.

    The project has five main objectives:
    1) to develop an…

  4. Project // 01.10.2023 – 31.01.2025

    Digital Transformation and Changing World of Work – DiWaBe 2.0

    The digital transformation and the associated increase in the use of artificial intelligence are leading to fundamental structural change in the world of work. In order to take a closer look at the effects on…

  5. Project // 01.10.2023 – 31.12.2026

    Exploring the Roots of Migration: An Intergenerational Analysis of Opportunities Maximization and Public Goods

    This project aims to contribute to the literature on the economics of migration and human capital formation by analysing an administrative dataset of over four million Italian emigrants worldwide. 

    The project…

  6. Project // 01.03.2023 – 30.09.2025

    Dynamic Interaction between Informal Long-Term Caregiving and Social Insurances in Germany

    This project assesses the impact of social insurance on informal Long-Term-Care (LTC) provision by family members in Germany. Family members are the most important providers of informal outpatient LTC. While…

  7. Project // 01.01.2023 – 31.12.2025

    Jacobs Foundation Research Fellowship

    The Jacobs Foundation Research Fellowship Program is a globally competitive fellowship program for early and mid-career researchers whose work is dedicated to improving the learning and development of children and…

  8. Project // 01.09.2022 – 31.08.2025

    Horizon Europe: Welfare Systems and Labour Market Policies for Economic and Social Resilience in Europe

    Four megatrends — technological transformations, globalization, climate change, and demographic changes — are reshaping labor markets, redefining opportunities and risks, and posing new challenges for welfare…

  9. Project // 15.07.2022 – 31.07.2027

    Work Disability and Labour Supply

    This project empirically and theoretically evaluates social insurance systems for work disability. Almost all OECD countries provide universal coverage for short-term, long-term and permanent work disability.…