Publications of the Research Unit Labour Markets and Social Insurance

  1. Expertises // 2014

    Context, Skills and Social Progress: Evidence from Germany

    Abstract: This study provides life-cycle evidence on the relationship between childhood investments (contexts), cognitive and non-cognitive skills, and life outcomes (social progress). From a policy perspective,…

  2. Refereed Journal // 2014

    Can Regional Employment Disparities Explain the Allocation of Human Capital Across Space?

    This paper examines the forces driving skill selectivity of regional migration in a context where modelling the migration decision as a wage-maximising process may be insufficient due to persistent employment…

  3. Refereed Journal // 2014

    Fixing the leak: Unemployment incidence before and after a major reform of unemployment benefits in Germany

    We present first empirical results on the effects of a large scale reduction in unemployment benefit entitlement lengths on unemployment inflows in Germany. We show that this highly disputed element of the…

  4. Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings // 2014

    Dynamisches Problemlösen stärkt Innovationskompetenz