Economic and Social Science Institute

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The Economic and Social Science Institute is a trade union research institute based in Düsseldorf . It goes back to the Economic and Scientific Institute (WWI) founded in 1946 and was renamed in 1972. It has been part of the Hans Böckler Foundation since 1995 .

Content

The field of work includes structural questions of the economy and the labor market as well as questions of distribution and social security as well as industrial relations and collective bargaining policy. The institute develops economic and social science-based proposals for overcoming social problems. Research results and concepts are presented to the public, politics and science. The research work of the WSI is carried out in close cooperation with the Institute for Macroeconomics and Business Cycle Research (IMK) in the Hans Böckler Foundation. As a scientific journal, the WSI publishes the WSI reports, which appear six times a year, and publishes the previous year's German labor disputes once a year .

WSI tariff archive

The WSI tariff archive is the central documentation point for union wage policy. In addition, it has an opinion-forming effect on the public debate on collective bargaining policy through scientific contributions. The collective bargaining archive reports regularly on current collective bargaining in Germany, it maintains comprehensive wage, working time and employee statistics related to collective bargaining, it observes new trends in the framework and general collective bargaining policy and analyzes the relevant collective bargaining regulations. It also regularly produces a European tariff report. The WSI tariff archive carries out the LohnSpiegel project: The website www.lohnspiegel.de offers an online paycheck that provides information on actually paid wages and salaries in 425 professions.

WSI announcements

The WSI-Mitteilungen are the WSI's magazine. They are a scientific journal with a policy and practice-oriented orientation. The WSI announcements provide information about new scientific findings in the range of topics "Work - Economy - Social".

Topics dealt with regularly are:

  • Labor market, social and distribution policy
  • Labor policy
  • Labor relations and collective bargaining policy
  • Qualification policy
  • Gender and equality policy
  • Macroeconomics, economic and financial policy
  • European integration and globalization

Summaries of all articles are available in the online archive. Selected articles can be read in full text.

people

The scientific director of the institute has been Bettina Kohlrausch since May 1, 2020. She is professor for "Social Transformation and Digitization" at the University of Paderborn .

The editor-in-chief of WSI-Mitteilungen is sociologist Gudrun Linne. 17 scientists and a number of other scientific project staff work permanently at the WSI.

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ^ Hans Böckler Foundation: Professor Bettina Kohlrausch new Scientific Director of the WSI . Press release, April 29, 2020 (accessed May 4, 2020)
  2. ↑ Website Prof. Dr. Bettina Kohlrausch at the University of Paderborn