Publications of the Research Unit Labour Markets and Social Insurance

  1. Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings // 2007

    Germany

  2. Discussion and Working Paper // 2007

    Persistence of the School Entry Age Effect in a System of Flexible Tracking

    In Germany, the streaming of students into an academic or nonacademic track at age 10 can be revised at later stages of secondary education. To investigate the importance of such revisions, we use administrative…

  3. Refereed Journal // 2007

    Real and Nominal Wage Rigidities and the Rate of Inflation: Evidence from West German Micro Data

    The paper examines real and nominal wage rigidities. We estimate a switching regime model, in which the observed distribution of individual wage changes, computed from West German register data for 1976-1997,…

  4. Refereed Journal // 2007

    Dismissal Protection and Worker Flows in Small Establishments

    Based on a large employer-employee matched data set, the paper investigates the effects of variable enforcement of German dismissal protection legislation on the employment dynamics in small establishments.…