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  1. Project // 01.01.2010 – 31.12.2012

    Reforms in Higher Education - Empirical Analysis with administrative Data

    The German system of higher education currently faces many reforms concerning the organization of degrees, the profiling of universities and financing aspects. These reforms are mainly said to aim at the …

    01.01.2010 – 31.12.2012
    Labour Markets and Social Insurance
  2. Project // 01.01.2010 – 31.12.2012

    Socioeconomic aspects of knowledge acquistion in social networks

    This subproject of the interdisciplinary project "An infrastructure for the analysis of social networks" deals with the economic analysis of social links in online networks. It considers networks for entertaining…

    01.01.2010 – 31.12.2012
    Labour Markets and Social Insurance
  3. Project // 01.01.2010 – 31.12.2013

    Effects of school choice

    In this project, we will evaluate how the introduction of free school choice in Sweden in 1992 has affected students’ results. Has school choice and competition between schools increased average student…

    01.01.2010 – 31.12.2013
    Labour Markets and Social Insurance
  4. Project // 15.09.2009 – 30.11.2010

    Pilot study for the evaluation of youth programmes within Social Code II and Social Code III

    Labour market programmes for promotion of young people below 25 years within Social Code II and Social Code III have up to now only been evaluated partially, non-systematically or by surveying the programmes.…

    15.09.2009 – 30.11.2010
    Labour Markets and Social Insurance
  5. Project // 01.07.2009 – 31.10.2010

    New insights in the gender wage gap: The role of responsibility and the job-skill match

    In line with the persistence of the gender wage gap and the high political relevance of the topic, the empirical literature on this subject is substantial. Particular emphasis has been placed on the role of…

    01.07.2009 – 31.10.2010
    Labour Markets and Social Insurance
  6. Project // 01.07.2009 – 31.03.2010

    Rewrite and Documentation of the Microsimulation Model STSM

    The ZEW is one of the pioneers of microsimulation in Germany; its model STSM has been in active use since the late 1990s. The aim of the present project is to rewrite the model's program code, taking into…

    01.07.2009 – 31.03.2010
    Labour Markets and Social Insurance
  7. Project // 25.06.2009 – 31.05.2010

    Public incentives for private investments in education – efficiency analysis, international trends, reform options

    One goal of German politics is to increase public expenditures for education and research up to a share of 10% of German GDP. From the perspective of rational fiscal policy, public expenditures for…

    25.06.2009 – 31.05.2010
    Labour Markets and Social Insurance
  8. Project // 01.06.2009 – 31.12.2013

    Accompanying Research to Evaluate the Impact of Subsidies for Vocational Training on the Market for Vocational Training and on the Public Finances

    It is the aim of this project to evaluate the impact of the subsidies for vocational training on the market for vocational training. It is the aim of the study to investigate if the subsidy facilitates the…

    01.06.2009 – 31.12.2013
    Labour Markets and Social Insurance
  9. Project // 01.06.2009 – 31.12.2010

    Firm-specific shocks and employment adjustment analysis with ifo business survey

    The goal of the project is to analyse firm-specific employment adjustments on macro and micro shocks. This will be done with a new German linked employer-employee data set. The data is composed of the IFO…

    01.06.2009 – 31.12.2010
    Labour Markets and Social Insurance