Projects of the Research Unit Labour Markets and Social Insurance

Abgeschlossene Projekte

  1. Project // 01.01.2008 – 31.12.2010

    Leibniz Network "Non-Cognitive Skills: Acquisition and Economic Consequences"

    The international research network "Non-Cognitive Skills - Acquisition and Economic Consequences" was supported for three years (2008-2010) by the Leibniz Association as a part of the "Pakt für Forschung und…

  2. Project // 01.01.2008 – 31.12.2010

    Research on training programmes for the integration of disadvantaged students

    The project was thematically and in the editing closely linked to the research network “Non-Cognitive Skills: Acquisition and Economic Consequences”. The focus of the project was the evaluation of measures,…

  3. Project // 01.11.2007 – 30.11.2009

    The effect of age-sensitive production systems on employment and productivity: Economic Analysis on the basis of micro data

    It is the aim of this project to analyse production systems from an organisational and economic perspective. At the one hand, the effects of age-structure among the employees in combination with different…

  4. Project // 01.11.2007 – 30.09.2009

    Studierende in den Ingenieur- und Naturwissenschaften - Eine empirische Analyse von Studienverläufen ("Ingenieurwahlstudie II")

    On account of the different dynamics of the development of the supply and demand of academic graduates, there is, at least temporarily, expected to be a shortage, especially in the engineering and natural science…

  5. Project // 01.10.2007 – 31.12.2011

    Skill Formation and Human Capital Investment

    The project studied the formation of human capital at different stages of the life-cycle based on multidisciplinary research, including views from economics, econometrics, neurobiology, survey analysis, and…

  6. Project // 01.08. – 30.11.2007

    Social Inequality of Humanists on the Job

    The core of the project is to take a look at the chances of humanists on the Labor Market. In detail, we want to study income level and structure, development of income, employment opportunities and risks of…

  7. Project // 01.08.2007 – 31.07.2008

    Productivity and Employability of Older Employees

    This project analysed the determinants of productivity of older employees on the basis of the IABS data set and the ICT survey of the ZEW. A special emphasis was put on the role of information and communication…

  8. Project // 01.07.2007 – 30.06.2008

    Analysis and Estimation of the Structural Unemployment in Germany to Improve the Methods for Evaluation of the Structural Deficit and Potential Output

    It is possible to quantify the structural unemployment either on an aggregate level using the time-series (e.g. estimation of the NAIRU) or on a more disaggregated level (e.g. regional data for estimation of the…

  9. Project // 01.07. – 31.10.2007

    The Basic Income proposed by Althaus: Effects in Labor Supply, Distribution and Budget

    The Basic Income promoted by Dieter Althaus (prime minister of the federal state Thüringen) combines several proposals for reforms of the german tax and transfer system. Elements of this Basic Income are: e.g.…