Projects of the Research Unit Labour Markets and Social Insurance

Abgeschlossene Projekte

  1. Project // 01.01.2007 – 28.02.2008

    Factors affecting employee inflow into unemployment assistance scheme (Arbeitslosengeld 2) in 2005 and 2006

    The project's aim is to analyse empirically the inflow of employees into unemployment assistance scheme (Arbeitslosengeld 2) and the factors affecting it using the process data of the Federal Labor Office…

  2. Project // 01.12.2006 – 31.12.2009

    Allocation and Distributional Effects of Labour Market and Environmental Problems

    Computable general equilibrium (CGE) models have become a standard tool to quantify the macroeconomic effects of political measures. Most models assume a representative agent and often abstract from the…

  3. Project // 01.12.2006 – 31.12.2009

    Evaluation of the effects of basic social care for job seekers with migration background in Germany

    In a far-ranging reform to German social legislation, unemployment and social assistance have been joined into a common framework in 2005. In this project, the impacts of this reform for persons with migration…

  4. Project // 01.11.2006 – 31.12.2007

    Skill Formation and School Outcome: Evidence from the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk

    The research unit "Neuropsychology of Childhood and Adolescence" at the Central Institute of Mental Health and the educational group at the ZEW cooperated to study different development and environmental risks…

  5. Project // 01.10.2006 – 30.09.2008

    Economic Analysis of Preschool Investments in Skills

    In the research project "Economic Analysis of Pre-School Investments in Skills" we started to examine the technology of skill formation and the nature of the skill multiplier from early childhood. The …

  6. Project // 01.10.2006 – 30.09.2008

    Gender segregation within organizations: The impact of firm characteristics and human resource measures to foster equal opportunities

    In Germany, about 45 percentage of all employees are women. However, only one third of all skilled employees and executive managers are females and only one of ten jobs in the highest hierarchy level in the…

  7. Project // 15.09.2006 – 30.11.2008

    Social and economic impact analysis of collective living arrangements

    Main aim of the project ist the calculation of a Social Return on Investment (SROI), following the corresponding concept of the Roberts Enterprise Development Fund (RDF). This concept intends to quantify economic,…

  8. Project // 10.08.2006 – 31.05.2009

    Evaluation of the Experimentation Clause in § 6c SGB II (Social Security Code), Research Area 3: Impact and Efficiency Analyses

    In a far-ranging reform to German social legislation, unemployment and social assistance have been joined into a common framework in 2005. This has brought about major organisational changes. In most cases,…

  9. Project // 01.08. – 31.12.2006

    Modern regulations in the labour market

    The core of the project consists in the development of strategies to regulate the labour market. These concepts are not aimed at a single regulation field, but they regard the system of regulations as a whole, and…