Publications of the Research Unit Labour Markets and Social Insurance

  1. ZEWnews English edition // 2002

    No. 2 - 2002

    • ZEW Conference on Price Indices and the Measurement of Quality Changes
    • Training Is not Always Effective
    • Financial Services in the EU: Barriers Cost Billions
    • Efficiency of Innovation Activities
    • Tax Autonomy of the…
  2. ZEWnews English edition // 2002

    No. 1 - 2002

    • ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment Shows Turnaround for German Economy
    • What will Put the German Neuer Markt Back on its Feet Again?
    • An International Comparison of Funded Private Pension Schemes
    • Protecting the…
  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 01-29 // 2001

    The unification bonus (malus) in postwall Eastern Germany

    This paper presents estimates of the unification bonus for East Germans over the period 1991 to 1998. The unification bonus is defined as the discounted value of the difference between a person’s actual income…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 01-25 // 2001

    Organizational Change, New Information and Communication Technologies and the Demand for Labor in Services

    Between 1993 and 1995, the majority of German firms in services introduced new organizational practices (OC), in particular total quality management systems, certified ISO 9000, lean administration, flatter…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 01-46 // 2001

    Employment Changes in Environmentally Innovative Firms

    This paper analyses the determinants of employment reactions induced by environmental innovations. On the basis of the parameter estimates of the Multinomial Logit and of several Multinomial Probit Models, we…

  6. Refereed Journal // 2001

    Beyond the Toledo Agreement: The International Impact of the Spanish Pension Reform

    The paper examines the intergenerational impact of the Spanish public pension system after the 1997 Pension Reform Act. Within a Generational Accounting framework, we find that the new legal setting could…