Publications - MPIfG

The four PhD projects at the MPIfG are based on a common data set on the 100
largest companies in Germany, each analyzing a different research question.
Directed by Wolfgang Streeck and Anke Hassel, the program aims to facilitate cooperation
between researchers and provide high-quality PhD supervision. The
program participants, Martin Höpner, Antje Kurdelbusch, Britta Rehder and
Rainer Zugehör, will be finishing their projects by December 31, 2001.
Benchmarking Project
On June 1, 1999, the “Office for the Benchmarking
Project” (Projektbüro Benchmarking) was established
at the MPIfG in cooperation between the German
Federal Chancellor’s Office, the Bertelsmann
Stiftung and the MPIfG. The purpose of the Benchmarking
Project is to provide expert advice for the
German federal government’s “Alliance for Employment,
Training and Competitiveness” by conducting
an internationally comparative study of quantitative
and qualitative data on labor market and employment
policy. The project, whose two-year stay at the
MPIfG has come to an end on September 30, 2001,
has been conducted by project head Werner Eichhorst,
a former postdoctoral fellow at the MPIfG, by Stefan Profit (from 1999–
2000) and by Eric Thode (since 2000).
As a guest of the MPIfG, the Benchmarking Project pays the institute for office
space and use of its infrastructure. The project’s researchers participate fully in the
activities of the institute.
Ernst Rudolf Schloessmann Scholarship
In 1998, Dr. Gabriele Metzler was awarded a Schloessmann Seminar Fellowship
for “Social Sciences and Institutional Change.” From October 2000 to September
2001 she conducted research at the MPIfG on “Political Planning as a Democratic
Process – Political Thinking and Actions in the Federal Republic of Germany from
the 1950s to the 1970s.”
The Ernst Rudolf Schloessmann Foundation was established by a Supporting
Member of the Max Planck Society. It makes awards to promote promising junior
scientists. Each year what is known as the Schloessmann Seminar is funded by the
returns on the Foundation’s capital. Up to six participants in such seminars can be
awarded a prize for outstanding contributions. Eight to ten more junior scientists
are awarded one-year grants for carrying out promising research projects in Max
Planck institutes in their respective fields.
Gabriele Metzler: Der deutsche Sozialstaat. Vom bismarckschen Erfolgsmodell zum Pflegefall.
Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 2003, 268 pp.
Research Cooperation
Werner Eichhorst
Gabriele Metzler
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