लेखक: Christa Larsen

Dr. Christa Larsen is a social scientist and Managing Director at the Institute for Economics, Labour and Culture in Frankfurt am Main. Her current work concentrates on regional labour market monitoring, regionalised analyses of labour markets for health workers, systems for information and diagnoses of labour markets and regional prognoses. / Dr. Marco Mevius is an expert for the management and implementation of large IT projects, designing new business processes and corresponding information in multidisciplinary environments. Currently he is Head of the division for Software Engineering (SE) and member of the Management Board at the Research Center for Information Technology (FZI) in Karlsruhe. / Jenny Kipper is a pedagogue and Scientist at the Institute for Economics, Labour and Culture (IWAK) in Frankfurt am Main. Her current activities are focussed on process of organisational learning, organisational development, and development of quality. / Dr. Alfons Schmid is Professor for Economics at the faculty of Social Sciences and Scientific Director of the Institute for Economics, Labour, and Culture (IWAK) at the Goethe-University in Frankfurt am Main (Germany). His main areas of research are regional developments of employment and labour market, new information technology and impacts on employment situation, regional competitiveness, attitudes towards welfare states, regional forecasting and regional studies in poverty and wealth.