Publications of the Research Unit Labour Markets and Social Insurance

In this paper, we analyze the role of personality traits for female labor force participation. While research on the role of cognitive skills for individual labor market success has a long tradition in…

Observational studies have become a major research methodology in scienti c disciplines where experiments are hard to perform. These most notably include the health sciences, social sciences and…

We present evidence for a highly significant interaction between state dependence in individual unemployment risk and the business cycle. The disadvantage from having been unemployed in the previous period is…

Ausdauer und Leistungsintensität im Handlungsablauf, Motivation, sprachliche, logische und motorische Fähigkeiten, Gedächtnisleistungen ebenso wie die Fähigkeit zur Verarbei-tung von Informationen sind im Schul-…

This paper examines the evolution of returns to education in the West German labour market over the last two decades. During this period, graduates from the period of educational expansion entered the labour…

We examine job durations of German workers using linked employer–employee data. Our results indicate that exit rates are strongly influenced by firm characteristics. The effects of some of these…