Publications of the Research Unit Labour Markets and Social Insurance

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 04-41 // 2004

    Evaluating the Dynamic Employment Effects of Training Programs in East Germany Using Conditional Difference-in-Difference

    This paper evaluates the effects of Public Sponsored Training in East Germany in the context of reiterated treatments. Selection bias based on observed characteristics is corrected for by applying kernel…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 04-34 // 2004

    Returns to Education and Individual Heterogeneity

    In this paper, human capital investments are evaluated by assuming heterogeneous returns to education. We use the potential outcome approach to measure the causal effect of human capital investments on earnings…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 04-31 // 2004

    Worker Remittances and Capital Flows to Developing Countries

    Worker remittances constitute an increasingly important mechanism for the transfer of resources from developed to developing countries, and remittances are the second-largest source, behind foreign direct…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 04-26 // 2004

    New Estimates of the Duration and Risk of Unemployment for West-Germany

    This paper analyzes changes in the risk of unemployment and changes in the distribution of unemployment duration for the 26 to 41 years old working population in West-Germany during the 1980ties and 1990ties.…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 04-24 // 2004

    Unemployment Durations in West-Germany Before and After the Reform of the Unemployment Compensation System During the 1980s

    This paper empirically analyzes the distribution of unemployment durations in West-Germany before and after the changes during the mid 1980s in the maximum entitlement periods for unemployment benefits for…

  6. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 04-23 // 2004

    Eine ökonomische Einordnung der Förderung der beruflichen Weiterbildung im Rahmen der Aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik

    Thema dieser Arbeit ist eine ökonomische Einordnung der beruflichen Weiterbildung (FbW) als Teil der Aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik in Deutschland. Die Analyse erfolgt im Lichte des sektoralen Wandel, der…

  7. ZEW Economic Studies Vol. 25 // 2004

    Leaving Unemployment for Self-Employment

    The book presents an analysis of the transition from unemployment to self-employment and its subsidisation with the so-called "bridging allowance" in Germany. On the basis of econometric models, the determinants…