Coordination Funds

最近的严重衰退导致许多工业化国家重新评估劳动力市场政策。技术变革和劳动分工的变化、贸易自由化、劳动力流动性增加、人口变化、低生育率、劳动力参与的变化以及劳动力市场的改革已经重塑了经济及其劳动力市场的运作方式。该优先方案的中心目的是在全球范围内加深对德国特别是整个欧洲劳动力市场面临的挑战的了解。该方案处理有关贸易、技术和人口变化之间的联系的研究问题，因为它们影响工资和就业。从国际角度来看，该方案将实证分析德国劳动力市场的运作方式，特别强调劳动力市场流动，制度和政策的作用，对不平等加剧的解释，人口变化，以及与教育和重要非经济动机和结果的联系。了解这些问题对于制定与各年龄段人口的技能发展、劳动力市场中的家庭问题和性别、人口统计学、儿童发展、保健、社会政策、犯罪、移民以及劳动力市场的宏观经济表现有关的政策至关重要。竞争和潜在移民所带来的挑战与人口发展相结合，不仅会以不同的方式影响各种劳动力市场群体，而且还会迫使人力资源管理实践适应。优先方案将采取跨学科的办法，把经济研究同社会学和人力资源管理的研究以及工商管理的组织联系起来。该方案以理论贡献为基础，主要涉及利用大型微观数据集的实证研究，重点是全面的描述性分析或估计治疗-对照组范式中的因果效应。将特别注重从微观和宏观经济角度调查劳动力市场流动的项目。这一优先项目的标志是获得高质量的个人和公司层面的劳动力市场数据，最先进的实验，以及与政策辩论的密切联系。核心研究领域为：(1)技术、全球化、任务、工资；(2)教育、职业培训、人口变化、认知与非认知技能、幼儿发展；(3)劳动力市场结果的群体差异；(4)不完全竞争、制度、政府政策、失业；(5)人力资源管理与组织变革；(6)劳动力市场与非劳动力市场结果的相互作用。

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.