Labor Markets and Discrimination
Labour and Service Economics
- Head of the team: Prof. Dr. Thomas Beißinger (University of Hohenheim).
- The team conducts research focused on the theoretical and empirical implications of labor market reforms for wage inequality in Germany when offshoring is explicitly considered (Beissinger et al., 2016).
- In addition, the team conducted research on wage-setting mechanisms with a focus on benefit systems, trade unions, and unemployment (Strifler and Beissinger, 2015; Beissinger and Baudy, 2015; Beissinger and Egger, 2004).
- The research interests of the team are currently focused on: wage inequality and offshoring, immigration, labor market reforms, and wage gaps.
Econometrics and Empirical Economics
- Head of the team: Prof. Dr. Aderonke Osikominu (University of Hohenheim).
- Together with coauthors she has analysed the links between societal changes, earnings, and income inequality in OECD countries (Mira d'Ercole and Osikominu, 2008a, b).
- Other research includes evaluating the effects of job training programs for the unemployed (Biewen et al. (2014); Osikominu, 2013).
- Her team is currently working on a DFG project related to the effects of different learning activities within and outside school on the acquisition of noncognitive skills. The knowledge on skill formation is important for designing effective educational policies to mitigate the negative effects of inequality.
Growth and Distribution
- Head of the team and speaker of INEPA: Prof. Dr. Prettner (University of Hohenheim).
- The work if the team centers around the following topics: gender equity and economic development (Bloom et al., 2015, Prettner and Strulik, 2017); inequality and status perceptions (Hof and Prettner, 2016); human capital accumulation (Prettner and Schäfer, 2016); and the effects of automation on economic growth and inequality (Prettner, 2016, Prettner and Strulik, 2017).
- Ongoing research focuses on automatisation and the shifts in income distribution between different skill groups of workers, the effects of demographic change (mainly aging and migration) on inequality, the evolution of global inequality between countries, and testing the biases and efficiency of estimation methods.