Publications of the Research Group Inequality and Public Policy

  1. Discussion and Working Paper // 2014

    Exporting and Labor Demand: Micro-level Evidence from Germany

    It is widely believed that globalization a ffects the extent of employment and wage responses to economic shocks. To provide evidence for this, we analyze the e ffect of firms' exporting behavior on the…

  2. Discussion and Working Paper // 2014

    Exporting and Labor Demand: Micro-level Evidence from Germany

    It is widely believed that globalization a ffects the extent of employment and wage responses to economic shocks. To provide evidence for this, we analyze the e ffect of firms' exporting behavior on the…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 14-016 // 2014

    The Own-Wage Elasticity of Labor Demand: A Meta-Regression Analysis

    Firms' labor demand responses to wage changes are of key interest in empirical research and policy analysis. However, despite extensive research, estimates of labor demand elasticities remain subject to…

  4. Refereed Journal // 2014

    Experimental Evidence on the Relationship between Tax Evasion Opportunities and Labor Supply

    Motivated by the observation that access to evasion opportunities is distributed heterogeneously across the labor market, this paper examines the extent to which labor supply elasticities with respect to tax…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 14-014 // 2014

    Circumstantial Risk: Impact of Future Tax Evasion and Labor Supply Opportunities on Risk Exposure

    This paper examines whether risk-taking in a lottery depends on the opportunity to respond to the lottery outcome through additional labor effort and/or tax evasion. Previous empirical attempts to answer this…