Publications of the Research Unit Labour Markets and Social Insurance

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 00-41 // 2000

    Neues von der NAIRU ?

    This paper is devoted to a new estimation of the non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment (NAIRU) for the West German Economy 1980 to 1998. The novelty of the paper is the estimation of a time-varying…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 00-01 // 2000

    Formelle und informelle berufliche Weiterbildung und Verdienst bei Arbeitnehmern und Selbständigen

    The paper investigates determinants of formal and non-formal continuous vocational training and its income effects among German self-employed and employed workers in 1991/92. Participation in continuous formal…

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

    Gesellschaftliche Alterung, Humankapital und Produktivität

  4. 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…

  5. 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…