Completed projects

DEFEN-CE: Social Dialogue in Defence of Vulnerable Groups in Post-COVID-19 Labour Markets
01.11.2021 - 30.11.2023
Project management: Dr. Karen Jaehrling
Project team: Dr. Thorsten Kalina, Dr. Conrad Lluis

Perspectives of a socio-technical design of work and organization
01.01.2021 - 31.12.2023
Project team: Dr. Erich Latniak
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Double Transformation - Effects of Ecological and Digital Change on Production Companies in Energy-intensive Industries
01.10.2020 - 30.09.2021
Project management: Prof. Dr. Thomas Haipeter
Project team: Alexander Bendel
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Ch@nge Ruhr: A Future hub for SMEs in the Ruhr area - supporting work-oriented design in digital transformation processes
01.10.2020 - 31.12.2022
Project management: Dr. Erich Latniak
Project team: Dr. Erich Latniak, Dr. Paul-Fiete Kramer
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Comparisons in decentralised bargaining: towards new relations between trade unions and work councils?
01.09.2020 - 31.08.2022
Project management: Prof. Dr. Thomas Haipeter
Project team: Dr. Sophie Rosenbohm
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Development and preparation of the "National Discrimination and Racism Monitor" Sub-project "Racism in the health care of refugees - The interplay of subjective effects of racism and institutional racism in access to welfare state offers"
01.09.2020 - 31.01.2021
Project management: Andrea Rumpel
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Development and preparation of the "National Discrimination and Racism Monitor"
01.09.2020 - 31.01.2021
Project management: Dr. Katrin Menke
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Joint project: Migrant organizations and the Co-Production of Social Protection - A Multi-Level Analysis of Migrant Practices in Welfare State Arrangements
01.05.2020 - 14.02.2023
Project management: Prof. Dr. Ute Klammer, Dr. Thorsten Schlee
Project team: Ariana Kellmer
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Implementing global framework agreements
01.03.2020 - 31.12.2022
Project management: Prof. Dr. Thomas Haipeter
Project team: Dr. Sophie Rosenbohm, Christine Üyük
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Implementation of the Federal Law Aiming at the Further Development of Quality and Participation in child day care facilities and services
01.03.2020 - 31.03.2023
Project management: Prof. Dr. Sybille Stöbe-Blossey
Project team: Iris Nieding, Dr. Karola Köhling, Dr. Sandra Fischer
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The Implications of Institutional Research Structures by the Example of FGW (Research Institute for Societal Development)
01.01.2020 - 31.12.2020
Project management: Prof. Dr. Ute Klammer
Project team: Ramona Liedtke
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Participation in the Digitalised World of Work – Potentials of Vocational Schools for „Qualification 4.0“
01.01.2020 - 30.06.2022
Project management: Dr. Monique Ratermann-Busse
Project team: Dr. Monique Ratermann-Busse, Marina Ruth, Prof. Dr. Sybille Stöbe-Blossey, Philipp Hackstein
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The statutory minimum wage and employee protection
01.10.2019 - 29.02.2020
Project management: Dr. Claudia Weinkopf
Project team: Dr. Thorsten Kalina
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Blurring the boundaries of work: blogging and vlogging as new forms of digital work
01.06.2019 - 31.07.2020
Project management: Dr. Fabian Hoose, Dr. Sophie Rosenbohm
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The Development of New Forms of Work and Employment in the German Labour Market
01.12.2018 - 31.03.2019
Project management: Dr. Andreas Jansen
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Together we can do it
01.11.2018 - 31.12.2022
Project management: Prof. Dr. Sybille Stöbe-Blossey
Project team: Dr. Karola Köhling, Philipp Hackstein, Marina Ruth, Susanne Enssen
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The construction industry under change - actors, institutions and challenges
01.10.2018 - 30.04.2021
Project management: Dr. Claudia Weinkopf, Prof. Dr. Gerhard Bosch
Project team: Frederic Hüttenhoff, Dr. Angelika Kümmerling
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The impact of health changes on the development of older workers' earned income
01.10.2018 - 30.09.2021
Project management: Prof. Dr. Martin Brussig, Dr. Andreas Jansen
Project team: Susanne Enssen, Tom Heilmann
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Transnational employee representation in European Companies
01.04.2018 - 31.07.2020
Project management: Dr. Sophie Rosenbohm
Project team: Jennifer Kaczynska
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Migration and Police – Effects of Immigration on the Organization and Diversity of the German Police. Subproject: Personnel Policy and Diversity Management in the Police
01.03.2018 - 30.06.2021
Project management: Prof. Dr. Martin Brussig, Prof. Dr. Anja Weiß (Inst. f. Soziologie)
Project team: Alexandra Graevskaia, Benedikt Müller
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Job Quality and Industrial Relations in the Personal and Household Services Sector
01.03.2018 - 30.06.2020
Project management: Dr. Karen Jaehrling, Dr. Claudia Weinkopf
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Evaluation of Labour Market Integration Measures for Refugees
27.09.2017 - 30.09.2021
Project management: Prof. Dr. Martin Brussig
Project team: Johannes Kirsch, Katharina Schilling
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Migration and Social Policy Research Group: studies on the governance, shaping and use of (local) social policy with reference to refugee migration
01.09.2017 - 31.08.2022
Project management: Prof. Dr. Ute Klammer, Dr. Thorsten Schlee
Project team: Ghislaine Sandrine Bakoben, Andrea Rumpel, Dr. Katrin Menke
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Interfaces in Social Policy: Differentiation and integration in dealing with social risks
01.05.2017 - 30.09.2019
Project management: Prof. Dr. Martin Brussig, Prof. Dr. Sybille Stöbe-Blossey
Project team: Dr. Susanne Drescher, Linda Hagemann, Marina Ruth
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Work and process oriented digitalization in industrial enterprises – Further development of competency oriented work systems
01.05.2017 - 31.12.2020
Project management: Dr. Erich Latniak
Project team: Alexander Bendel
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Joint project: Models of resource-oriented and effective leadership of digital project and team work; Subproject: Resource-enhancing leadership – strengthening and maintaining operational managers in virtual contexts
01.04.2017 - 31.12.2020
Project management: Dr. Erich Latniak
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Scientific (short) expertises on fundamental issues of the welfare state
01.03.2017 - 03.10.2020
Project management: Prof. Dr. Martin Brussig
Project team: Dr. Susanne Drescher, Lina Zink, Prof. Dr. Thomas Haipeter, Prof. Dr. Ute Klammer, Dr. Angelika Kümmerling, Jennifer Kaczynska, Philipp Langer
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Monitoring transitions into retirement 2017-2018
01.01.2017 - 31.12.2018
Project management: Prof. Dr. Martin Brussig
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Post-qualification as a preventive social policy strategy. A study on offers, use and development possibilities of academic postgraduate and further qualification of immigrant academics
01.12.2016 - 31.08.2018
Project management: Prof. Dr. Ute Klammer
Project team: Alexandra Graevskaia, Prof. Dr. Matthias Knuth, 461
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Return to the work. Organizational and individual conditions of re-integration in the event of health problems
01.11.2016 - 31.03.2019
Project management: Prof. Dr. Martin Brussig
Project team: Lina Zink, Dr. Susanne Drescher
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Cooperation of Actors of Preventive Social Policy - An Analysis Using the Example of Vocational Orientation of Young Refugees
01.09.2016 - 31.08.2018
Project management: Prof. Dr. Sybille Stöbe-Blossey
Project team: Dr. Karola Köhling
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Initiative Strengthen work design capability. A new prevention model for companies and employees. Sub-project Psycho-social Work and Organisational Design
01.04.2016 - 31.07.2019
Project management: Dr. Anja Gerlmaier
Project team: Laura Geiger, Dr. Erich Latniak
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Work 4.0: Work and Codetermination in digitalized production systems
01.04.2016 - 31.08.2018
Project management: Prof. Dr. Thomas Haipeter, Prof. Dr. Gerhard Bosch
Project team: Dr. Tabea Bromberg, Dr. Jutta Schmitz-Kießler, Anne-Christin Spallek
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Evaluation of a Federal Labour Market Programme “Social inclusion in the labour market”
23.02.2016 - 30.06.2020
Project management: Prof. Dr. Martin Brussig
Project team: Dr. Patrizia Aurich-Beerheide, Johannes Kirsch, Philipp Langer
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Labour in the Third Wave of Globalization: The Development of New Ideas, Interests and Institutions of Collective Action
06.01.2016 - 05.01.2018
Project management: Prof. Dr. Thomas Haipeter
Project team: Dr. Steffen Lehndorff
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Public Procurement as a new arena of industrial relations
01.01.2016 - 04.08.2020
Project management: Dr. Karen Jaehrling
Project team: Christin Stiehm
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Monitoring transitions into retirement 2015-2016
01.01.2016 - 31.12.2016
Project management: Prof. Dr. Martin Brussig
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The German middle class in the context of the labour market
01.01.2016 - 31.12.2020
Project management: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Bosch, Dr. Claudia Weinkopf
Project team: Dr. Thorsten Kalina
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Evaluation “Family Centres at Primary Schools“
01.12.2015 - 31.07.2018
Project management: Prof. Dr. Sybille Stöbe-Blossey, Thomas Risse (KCR)
Project team: E. Katharina Klaudy, Thomas Risse (KCR)
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Equality-related orientations and courses of action of professors against the background of equality-policy regulations
01.10.2015 - 30.09.2018
Project management: Prof. Dr. Ute Klammer
Project team: , Lara Altenstädter (Inst. f. Soziologie), Ralitsa Petrova-Stoyanov (Inst. f. Soziologie), Eva Wegrzyn (Inst. f. Soziologie)
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Diversity policies and risks of discrimination in the Public Employment Service
01.06.2015 - 31.08.2016
Project management: Prof. Dr. Martin Brussig
Project team: Oya Baser, Johannes Kirsch
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Job Evaluation and Wage Structures for High Qualified (“AT”) Employees. Developments and Challenges for Co-Determination in the Chemical Industry
01.05.2015 - 30.04.2016
Project management: Prof. Dr. Thomas Haipeter
Project team: Dr. Tabea Bromberg
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Career Paths for Students of Dual Study Programmes. A Study of the Whereabouts of Dual Study Graduates
01.04.2015 - 30.09.2018
Project management: Dr. Sirikit Krone
Project team: Katharina Hähn, Iris Nieding, Dr. Monique Ratermann-Busse
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Quality of Jobs and Innovation Generated Employment Outcomes
01.04.2015 - 31.07.2018
Project management: Dr. Karen Jaehrling
Project team: Dr. Jessica Longen, Dr. Angelika Kümmerling, Dominik Postels, Dr. Erich Latniak, Monika Obersneider
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Comparable Worth: Blind spots in the analysis of the gender pay gap
01.02.2015 - 31.12.2018
Project management: Prof. Dr. Ute Klammer, Dr. Christina Klenner, Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliches Institut (WSI) in der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung
Project team: Sarah Lillemeier, Anja Mallat, Dr. Jutta Schmitz-Kießler
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Interest Representation in National and Transnational Action Fields: Company Restructuring and the Problem of Interest Articulation
01.01.2015 - 07.06.2019
Project management: Prof. Dr. Thomas Haipeter
Project team: Christine Üyük, Dr. Sophie Rosenbohm, Prof. Dr. Markus Hertwig (TU Chemnitz)
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Reducing Precarious Work in Europe through Social Dialogue
01.12.2014 - 30.11.2016
Project team: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Bosch, Dr. Karen Jaehrling, Dr. Ines Wagner, Dr. Claudia Weinkopf, Dr. Jessica Longen
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Employment careers of men and women with low pension entitlements
01.10.2014 - 31.12.2016
Project management: Prof. Dr. Martin Brussig
Project team: Lina Zink, Dominik Postels
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„No Dead End Qualifications“: Transition from School to Work in NRW
01.08.2014 - 31.12.2015
Project management: Prof. Dr. Martin Brussig, Prof. Dr. Sybille Stöbe-Blossey
Project team: Johannes Kirsch, Dr. Monique Ratermann-Busse
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Gatekeeping into incapacity pensions: a regional comparison
01.09.2013 - 30.09.2017
Project management: Prof. Dr. Martin Brussig
Project team: Manuela Schwarzkopf, Dr. Patrizia Aurich-Beerheide
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Interest Representation of White-Collar Employees
01.04.2013 - 31.03.2015
Project management: Prof. Dr. Thomas Haipeter
Project team: Dr. Tabea Bromberg, Christine Üyük
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Education and social outcomes for young people: promoting success
01.03.2013 - 28.02.2015
Project management: Dr. Angelika Kümmerling
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Changing national models of capitalism in the European crisis
01.01.2013 - 31.12.2021
Project management: Dr. Steffen Lehndorff
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Joint Project: Work-life-phase sensitive personnel management as innovation driver in demographic change
01.06.2012 - 31.05.2015
Project management: Dr. Anja Gerlmaier
Project team: Dr. Erich Latniak, Gabi Schilling, Dr. Stephan Hinrichs
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Monitoring transitions into retirement 4
01.01.2012 - 30.04.2015
Project management: Prof. Dr. Martin Brussig
Project team: Dr. Sarah Mümken
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Public sector pay and social dialogue during the fiscal crisis: the effects of pay reforms and procurement strategies on wage and employment inequalities
01.12.2011 - 30.11.2012
Project management: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Bosch, Dr. Claudia Weinkopf
Project team: Gabi Schilling, Dr. Thorsten Kalina, Leila Mesaros
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Work and Life Quality in New and Growing Jobs
01.12.2009 - 30.11.2012
Project management: Dr. Steffen Lehndorff, Dr. Claudia Weinkopf
Project team: Dr. Karen Jaehrling, Dr. Angelika Kümmerling, Leila Mesaros, Manuela Schwarzkopf
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Minimum Wage Systems and Changing Industrial Relations in Europe
01.10.2009 - 30.09.2010
Project management: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Bosch
Project team: Dr. Claudia Weinkopf, Dr. Thorsten Kalina, Prof. Dr. Gerhard Bosch
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Joint project: Rationalisation strategies in demographic change – further development of competent work and production systems, sub-project Inventory and evaluation of development prerequisites and processes
01.09.2009 - 30.06.2013
Project management: Dr. Erich Latniak
Project team: Dr. Tabea Bromberg, Dr. Stephan Hinrichs
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Monitoring transitions into retirement 3
01.02.2009 - 31.12.2011
Project management: Prof. Dr. Martin Brussig
Project team: Dr. Sarah Mümken
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Competence and Innovation
01.01.2008 - 31.12.2011
Project team: Gabi Schilling
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Poverty and Social Exclusion in Rural Areas
23.11.2006 - 22.01.2008
Project management: Dr. Claudia Weinkopf
Project team: Dr. Thorsten Kalina, Achim Vanselow
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Women in Low-Skill Work
03.10.2006 - 01.07.2007
Project management: Dr. Karen Jaehrling
Project team: Dr. Thorsten Kalina, Dr. Claudia Weinkopf, Bettina Hieming
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Monitoring transitions into retirement 2
01.04.2006 - 31.10.2008
Project management: Prof. Dr. Matthias Knuth
Project team: Prof. Dr. Martin Brussig, Sascha Wojtkowski
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Monitoring Innovative Restructuring in Europe
01.02.2005 - 31.03.2007
Project management: Prof. Dr. Matthias Knuth
Project team: Gernot Mühge
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A Comparative Perspective on Vocational Training in Ten Countries: Systems, Innovations and Results
01.01.2005 - 30.04.2008
Project management: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Bosch
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Dynamics of National Employment Models
01.08.2004 - 31.07.2007
Project management: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Bosch, Dr. Steffen Lehndorff
Project team: Dr. Erich Latniak, Prof. Dr. Thomas Haipeter, Dr. Anja Gerlmaier, Dr. Angelika Kümmerling, Dr. Andreas Jansen

Quality Concepts for Daily Child Care Services
01.07.2004 - 30.09.2005
Project management: Dr. Brigitte Micheel
Project team: Karin Esch, E. Katharina Klaudy
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Low Wage Work in Europe and USA: opportunity in the workplace
01.07.2004 - 31.12.2008
Project management: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Bosch, Dr. Claudia Weinkopf
Project team: Dr. Karen Jaehrling, Dr. Thorsten Kalina, Dr. Dorothea Voss, Bettina Hieming, Achim Vanselow
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High Tech Business Services in Germany and the UK
01.04.2002 - 31.07.2003
Project management: Prof. Dr. Matthias Knuth
Project team: Dr. Thorsten Kalina
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New Forms of Employment and Working Time in the Service Economy
01.01.1999 - 30.09.2001
Project management: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Bosch, Dr. Steffen Lehndorff
Project team: Prof. Dr. Thomas Haipeter, Dr. Dorothea Voss, Dr. Alexandra Wagner
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