Publications of the Research Unit Labour Markets and Social Insurance

This paper provides the first full examination of the effect of German works councils on wages using matched employer-employee data (specifically, the LIAB for 2001). We find that works councils are associated…

Using a large linked employer-employee data set, this paper presents new evidence on the collective bargaining wage effect in western and eastern Germany. The novel feature of our analysis is that we use a…

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Seit zwei Jahren stehen der Wissenschaft mit der IEB und anderen Prozessdaten des IAB umfangreiche Individualdaten mit höheren Beobachtungszahlen und einer genauen Abbildung der zeitlichen Abläufe zur…

We present a combined, consistent microsimulation-AGE model that uses the labour market model PACE-L, data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and a discrete choice labour supply estimation. The model is used…

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In 1997, the German government enacted a reform of the unemployment insurance system which lead to a reduction of the maximum entitlement length for unemployment benefits. The paper analyses the effects of this…