Our work focuses on empirical labor market research and its representation in teaching at bachelor's, master's and doctoral level. We place particular emphasis on the combination of economic theory and empirical research. One focal area of our work is active policy advice in the field of labor market policy. In addition, we have extensive expertise in applied microeconometrics for causal analyses and in dealing with large administrative individual data sets. Our research focuses in particular on the following subjects:

• Evaluation and optimal design of measures for the unemployed
• Effects of digitalization on the labour market
• Minimum wages
• Wage inequality
• Incentives of unemployment insurance for employees and the unemployed and optimal design of unemployment insurance
• Effects of demographic trends on the labor market