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"Improving the Design of Labour Market Institutions and Practice"
The Graduate Centre "Improving the Design of Labour Market Institutions and Practice " has been in existence since 2005 at the IAAEG. It is an interdisciplinary doctoral programme for students studying law, economics, management, and other social sciences. It was designated as one of eight out of twenty-one applicants for the Rhineland-Palatine research funding programme by a first-class group of experts. The selection committee consisted of the former Chairman of the Academic Commission of the Council of Science Professor Dr. Amélie Mummendey (University Jena), the President of the German science group Professor Dr. Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker, Professor Dr. Günter Stock, Vice-President of the Max-Planck-Association, management board of the Schering AG and by now supervisor of the Academy of Science in Berlin-Brandenburg, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of BMW Professor Dr. Joachim Milberg, Professor Dr. Manfred Broy (TU Munich), Professor Dr. Ulrich Herbert (University Freiburg), Professor Dr. Hans-Rudolf Ott (ETH Zürich), and Professor Dr. Ekkehard Ramm (TU Stuttgart). The aim of the project is to support and educate highly qualified national and foreign postgraduates in order to prepare them for successful careers in science, economics, or management.
The focus of the programme is on the analysis of institutions in the labour market from an interdisciplinary and international perspective. The economical and judicial perspectives as well as international comparisons are emphasised. The functionality of the institutions in the labour market is studied in detail to help participants understand decision-making processes in multi-national businesses, in employer- employee organisations, in national and regional parliaments, and in institutions of the European Union. The scholarship holders are encouraged to develop fundamental and interdisciplinary research projects through a process involving regular monitoring and assessment. The co-operative structure of the group, combined with the multidisciplinary aspect of the programme, is intended to aid participants in developing and completing high quality research projects. The Graduate Centre of Excellence is somewhat similar to US-American Ph.D. programmes. The first year covers academic fundamentals. Scientific methods such as statistics, econometrics, and the composition of law are currently covered. Besides teaching basic concepts and tools, the lectures in this phase of the programme are also meant to provide the graduates with suggestions for their dissertations. An overview of the curriculum of the doctoral programmes are as follows:
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