Publications of the Research Unit Labour Markets and Social Insurance

  1. Refereed Journal // 2015

    Should Welfare Administration be Centralized or Decentralized? Evidence from a Policy Experiment

    The 2005 reform of the German welfare system introduced two competing organizational models for welfare administration. In most districts, a centralized organization was established where local welfare agencies…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 14-133 // 2014

    When the Minimum Wage Bites Back: Quantile Treatment Effects of a Sectoral Minimum Wage in Germany

    In this study we investigate the minimum wage (MW) effects for a German sub-construction sector where the MW bites extraordinary hard by international standards. Within a quasiexperiment we estimate the Quantile…