Projects of the Research Unit Labour Markets and Social Insurance

Abgeschlossene Projekte

  1. Project // 01.08.2006 – 31.07.2008

    Skills, Computer Use and Social Integration

    The project considers the social integration of low-skilled young people under the conditions of a knowledge-based economy. An essential factor of social integration in Germany is the transition from school to…

  2. Project // 01.07.2006 – 31.12.2008

    Wage mobility in the low-wage labour market in Germany

    In this project, we examine the importance of individual and employer-specific determinants in escaping low earnings in Germany. The overall objective is to identify a possible segmentation of the labour market…

  3. Project // 01.02.2006 – 31.05.2007

    Health care in German Households - Effects on Intra-family Time-Use and Expenditures

    This project intends to measure the effects of health care policies and the need for health care of one of the spouses on the intra-household allocation of resources. Our analysis is based on a micro-economic…

  4. Project // 01.01.2006 – 31.12.2007

    Marginal tax rates, labour supply and economic growth

    The falling labour input is among the factors responsible fort the low German growth path lagging behind the growth experience in many other industrial countries. It is the objective of this project to look into…

  5. Project // 01.01. – 30.09.2006

    Contribution to Quality Monitoring of Integrated Employment Biographies: Development of Alternative Unemployment Classification Proposals

    The Integrated Employment Biographies (IEB), provided by the IAB, can be supposed to become one of the most important data sources for labour market research in Germany: The IEB link process data information of…

  6. Project // 01.01. – 31.12.2006

    Skill Formation in Childhood

    In this project the technology of skill formation in early childhood has been investigated. It was the aim to integrate recent findings from childhood research (neuroscience, developmental psychology) into…

  7. Project // 01.11.2005 – 30.06.2006

    Theoretical and empirical analysis of education and continuing training in a world with declining and aging population

    The relevant aspects of education and continuing training in Germany are to be examined theoretically and empirically against the background of demographic changes. Policy relevance of the topic is to be evaluated…

  8. Project // 01.10.2005 – 31.12.2008

    Evaluation of the experimentation clause § 6c SGB II (Social Security Code) - comparative evaluation of the success on the labor market of the responsibility models opting municipality (Optierende Kommune) and consortium (ARGE) - research field 1: descriptive analysis and matching

    § 44b SGB II determines that employment offices (Agenturen für Arbeit) and municipal administrations, as responsible welfare institutions for job-seeking persons, shall establish consortiums in order to administer…

  9. Project // 01.09.2005 – 31.01.2007

    Reforming basic income and social insurance in Liechtenstein

    In this project, ZEW offers expertise with respect to the basic income scheme which should be modernized in Liechtenstein. The challenge is to combine the existing social insurance system with a modern…