Ongoing Projects
- In her PhD project Heidrun Braun deals with the question of how to shape the structural and cultural context, which favors a result- and practice-oriented action of administrative enforcement.
- Matthias Fauth has been a doctoral candidate at the International Economics Group of the University of Hohenheim since October 2020. His dissertation is titled 'Trade Policy Evaluation and Heterogeneous Firms: A Quantitative Analysis using German Micro Data' and is supervised by Prof. Dr. Benjamin Jung, Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Kohler and Dr. Oliver Krebs.
- Tobias König has been a doctoral candidate at the Philipps University Marburg since November 2020. His dissertation is titled 'Cluster life cycles and evolution of local industrial clusters in Germany ' and is supervised by Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Brenner (Economic geography and location research).
- Martin Kroczek has been a doctoral candidate at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen since November 2019. His dissertation is titled 'Essays on Skill Shortages and Tight Labor Markets' and is supervised by Prof. Dr. Bernhard Boockmann and Prof. Dr. Martin Biewen..
- Kathrin Mittelstät is doing her PhD in sociology at Bielefeld University and is a member of the Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology - BGHS. Her dissertation deals with inclusion concepts in activating labor market policies in Germany and Sweden. Her project is supervised by Prof. Lutz Leisering PhD and Prof. Dr. Uwe Schwarze.
- Marcel Reiner's doctoral project focuses on researching the connections between policy outcomes and policy learning processes. Using the example of the general statutory minimum wage, the implications of evaluation research for political reform processes are specifically examined. The doctoral project in political science is supervised by Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Bieling and Apl. Prof. Dr. Daniel Buhr (Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Tübingen).
- Christin Schafstädt is doing her PhD in educational science at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen on the topic school to work transition. She combines classical theories of career choices with the Capability Approach according to Amartya Sen and investigates the ability of jung adults to shape their individual educational and employment biography. For this purpose, problem-centred interviews were conducted with school-leavers with A-levels shortly before and two years after graduation, which are analysed using the documentary method. Her doctoral thesis is supervised by Prof. Dr. Barbara Stauber, Prof. Dr. Britta Kohler and Prof. Dr. Jürgen Volkert.