Publications of the Research Unit Labour Markets and Social Insurance

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 12-020 // 2012

    Up or Out: Research Incentives and Career Prospects of Postdocs in Germany

    The career prospects of young academics in Germany are the subject of an intensive public debate. During the early 2000s, the academic career path was characterized by the availability of only few tenured…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 12-019 // 2012

    Instrumental Variable Estimation of the Causal Effect of Hunger Early in Life on Health Later in Life

    Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing individuals born during a famine to others. Nutritional intake is typically unobserved and…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 12-014 // 2012

    How Acid Are Lemons? Adverse Selection and Signalling for Skilled Labour Market Entrants

    A major incentive for human capital investments is the possibility to signal individual productivity gained by training not only to the present employer but also to the external labour market. There are only…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 12-004 // 2012

    Awards at Work

    Awards increase in popularity in the corporate sector, where managers consider innovative human resource practices such as awards to be essential for firm competitiveness. The prevalence and popularity of…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 12-001 // 2012

    Impatience Among Preschool Children and Their Mothers

    Economists study the intergenerational transmission of skills and optimal human capital investment. Recent research has examined intergenerational associations of cognitive skills, trust and risk attitudes,…