Publications of the Research Unit Labour Markets and Social Insurance

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 18-030 // 2018

    Do Digital Information Technologies Help Unemployed Job Seekers Find a Job? Evidence from the Broadband Internet Expansion in Germany

    This paper studies effects of the introduction of a new digital mass medium on reemployment of unemployed job seekers. We combine data on high-speed (broadband) internet availability at the local level with…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 18-029 // 2018

    Unemployment and Social Exclusion

    This paper analyzes the economic and social consequences of job loss which contribute to exclusion from society based on German linked survey and administrative data. To study the causal relationship between…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 18-028 // 2018

    Gender, Informal Employment and Trade Liberalization in Mexico

    We study how trade liberalization affects formal employment across gender. We propose a theoretical mechanism to explain how male and female formal employment shares can respond differently to trade…

  4. Refereed Journal // 2018

    Formal but Less Equal. Gender Wage Gaps in Formal and Informal Jobs in Urban Brazil

    In developing countries, a large share of employees work informally and are not covered by employment protection legislation. I study how gender inequality differs across formal and informal wage-earners in…