Publications of the Research Unit Labour Markets and Social Insurance

  1. Discussion and Working Paper // 2006

    Beautiful Serbia

    The paper studies the causal impact of participation in an active labor market program – the ‘Beautiful Serbia’ program providing training and temporary work in the construction sector in Serbia and Montenegro…

  2. Discussion and Working Paper // 2006

    Ethnic persistence, assimilation and risk proclivity

    The paper investigates the role of social norms as a determinant of individual attitudes by analyzing risk proclivity reported by immigrants and natives in a unique representative German survey. We employ factor…

  3. Refereed Journal // 2006

    Selektivität und direkte Wirkungen von Vermittlungsgutscheinen: Empirische Befunde aus der Einführungsphase

    In April 2002 German government introduced job placement vouchers as a new instrument of active labour market policy to foster the transition of unemployed to jobs. This paper investigates the demand, the…

  4. Refereed Journal // 2006

    Vermittlungsgutscheine und Beauftragungen Dritter im Vergleich

    The paper compares the relative effectiveness of job placement vouchers and the contracting out of placement services. The results of the microeconometric analysis based on administrativ data indicate that…

  5. Refereed Journal // 2006

    Wirksamkeit von Arbeitsbeschaffungsmaßnahmen in Deutschland: empirische Befunde mikroökonometrischer Analysen

    In a number of empirical studies, the effects of job creation schemes for participating individuals in Germany were analysed from various standpoints by means of microeconometric evaluation. Based on the…

  6. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 06-092 // 2006

    Unemployment Duration in Germany: Individual and Regional Determinants of Local Job Finding, Migration and Subsidized Employment

    Recent labor market reforms in Germany aim, among other things, at reducing unemployment by restricting passive unemployment measures, emphasizing local labor market policies and re-structuring public employment…

  7. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 06-089 // 2006

    Die Entscheidung über betriebliche Weiterbildungsinvestitionen - Eine empirische Analyse mit dem Mannheimer Innovationspanel

    Mit den Daten des Mannheimer Innovationspanels wird für die Jahre 1999 bis 2002 untersucht, welche Faktoren die zweistufige betriebliche Weiterbildungsentscheidung determinieren. Eine Probit-Schätzung zeigt,…

  8. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 06-088 // 2006

    Distributional Effects of the High School Degree in Germany

    This paper investigates the impact of a high school degree on the wage distribution in the period from 1984 to 2004 in Germany. In that period the share of male workers with a high school degree increased from…