Publications of the Research Unit Labour Markets and Social Insurance

  1. ZEW-Wirtschaftsanalysen Contribution to Edited Volume Vol. 68 // 2003

    Der Außenhandelskanal

  2. ZEW Economic Studies Vol. 18 // 2003

    What Hampers Part-Time Work?

    This book contributes to clarify the conditions of jobs with shorter working hours and reckons the potential for increasing part-time employment in Germany. Two crucial obstacles of part-time employment are…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 03-31 // 2003

    Welfare Analysis of Fiscal Reforms: Does the Representation of the Family Decision Process Matter? Evidence for Germany

    This paper compares predictions obtained for the analysis of tax reforms with collective and unitary models of household labour supply and consumption behaviour. We simulate real world microdata by means of a…

  4. Refereed Journal // 2003

    Does Fixed-Term Contract Employment Raise Firms' Adjustment Speed? Evidence from an Establishment Panel for West Germany

    Fixed-term labour contracts were liberalised in Germany in order to raise the flexibility of the labour market. However, empirical studies using industry-level data find no significant effect of FTCs on…