1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 06-026 // 2006

    Private Job Placement Services – A Microeconometric Evaluation for Germany

    In recent years, coinciding with the discussion led in many OECD countries, Germany has started to contract out placement services for the unemployed to private agencies. Whereas in the Netherlands and Australia…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 06-025 // 2006

    Wage and Productivity Effect of Continuing Training in Germany: A Sectoral Analysis

    Wage and productivity effects of training are compared to study how the training rent is shared between employers and employees. With panel data from 1996-2002, I analyse the impact of continuing training on…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 06-020 // 2006

    Gender Earnings Gap in German Firms: The Impact of Firm Characteristics and Institutions

    Most existing analyses on the gender wage gap (GWG) have neglected the establishment as a place where inequality between male and female employees arises and is maintained. The use of linked employee-employer…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 06-019 // 2006

    Rising Wage Inequality in Germany

    This paper investigates the evolution of wages and the recent tendency to rising wage inequality in Germany, based on the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP)for 1984 to 2004. Between 1984 and 1994 the wage…

  5. ZEW-Wirtschaftsanalysen Vol. 81 // 2006

    Ingenieur- und Naturwissenschaften: Traumfach oder Albtraum?

    Die Bedeutung des technologischen Wissens für die Innovationsfähigkeit von Unternehmen und damit auch für ihre Wettbewerbsfähigkeit ist unbestritten. Gerade die Verfügbarkeit von Mitarbeitern mit…

  6. Monograph // 2006

    High-Tech Firms’ Long-Term Export Behaviour – The Experience of German and UK Companies

    The study empirically examines the long-term export behaviour of about 200 young technology-oriented companies from Germany and the UK. These firms were contacted by means of two surveys, in 1997 and 2003. In…

  7. Refereed Journal // 2006

    Does the Representation of Household Behavior Matter for Welfare Analysis of Tax-Benefit Policies? An introduction

    further co-authors: Michal Myck, Javier Ruiz-Castillo and Frederic Vermeulen. A widely shared intuition holds that individual control over money matters for the decision process within the household and the…