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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
In this project, we intend to propose an efficient child benefit component for low- and middle-earning households in the frame of a reform of the family tax and benefit system (switch from marital splitting with…