Publications of the Research Unit Labour Markets and Social Insurance

  1. Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings // 2000

    Gesellschaftliche Alterung, Humankapital und Produktivität

  2. Refereed Journal // 2000

    Pricing to market of German exporters : Evidence from panel data

    This paper investigates price discrimination of German exporters across foreign markets. We examine the degree of pass-through of exchange fluctuations in the pricing of 70 export items. The model is estimated…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 00-51 // 2000

    Outsourcing of Services, Imported Materials and the Demand for Heterogeneous Labour: An Application of a Generalised Box-Cox Function

    Over the last decades manufacturers have outsourced service inputs and shared resources with competitors. As a result, service inputs have been the fastest growing input factor in German manufacturing, followed…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 00-47 // 2000

    Empirical Determinants of Employee Resistance Against Innovations

    Employee resistance against innovations is a virulent phenomenon and there is a broad theoretical literature on its determinants. The empiri- cal evidence is scarce, however, and mainly provides descriptive…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 00-37 // 2000

    Wage Divergence and Unemployment: The Impact of Insider Power and Training Costs

    The US labour market is characterized by a high skill wage mark-up and low unemployment, while the German labour market has a low skill wage mark-up and a high, mainly unskilled unemployment rate. This paper…