The research that will be conducted at the Competence Centre consists of six  separate, sub-stantively linked research areas in the fields of business  administration and economics. These working areas are thematically  interconnected by an investigation into the employment situation for highly  qualified members of the workforce. All of the projects are also united at the  substantive level by quantitative and qualitative empirical analyses to test  jointly posited hypotheses, using interviews as well as a quantitative survey.