Project Details
Projekt
Coordination Funds
Applicant
Professor Bernd Fitzenberger, Ph.D.
Subject Area
Statistics and Econometrics
Economic Policy, Applied Economics
Economic Policy, Applied Economics
Term
from 2014 to 2022
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 259039477
The recent severe recession has led to a reassessment of labor market policies across many industrialized countries. Technological change and changes in the division of labor, trade liberali-zation, increasing labor mobility, demographic changes, low fertility rates, changes in labor force parti¬cipation as well as labor market reforms have reshaped the way economies and their labor markets operate. The central purpose of the priority programme is to develop a deeper understanding of the challenges facing labor markets in Germany in particular and throughout Europe in a global context. The programme addresses pertinent research issues on the link between trade, technology, and demographic changes as they affect wages and employment. In an international perspective, the programme will analyze empirically the way the German labor market works with particular emphasis on labor market flows, on the role of institutions and policies, on the explanation for the increase in inequality, on demographic changes, and on the links to education and important non-economic motives and outcomes. An understanding of these issues is key for policies relating to skills development of the population at all ages, family issues and gender in the labor market, demography, child development, health, social policies, crime, immigration, as well as the macroeconomic performance of the labor market. The challenges posed by competition and potential immigration combined with demographic developments will not only affect various labor market groups in different ways, but also force human resource management practices to adapt. The priority programme will take an interdisciplinary approach linking economic research with research in sociology and in human resource management and organization in business administration. Building on theoretical contributions, the programme mainly involves empirical research making use of large micro data sets with an emphasis on a comprehensive descriptive analysis or on estimating causal effects in the treatment-control group paradigm. A particular focus will be given to projects that investigate labor market flows from micro- and macroeconomic perspectives. Trademarks of this priority programme are the access to individual-level and firm-level labor market data of exceptional quality, state-of-the-art experiments, and the close link to the policy debate. The core research areas are: (1) Technology, Globalization, Tasks, Wages, (2) Education, Vocational Training, Demographic Changes, Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills, Early Childhood Development, (3) Group Differences in Labor Market Outcomes, (4) Imperfect Competition, Institutions, Government Policy, Unemployment, (5) Human Resource Management and Organizational Change, and (6) Interaction between the Labor Market and Non-labor Market Outcomes.
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