Publikationen des Forschungsbereichs Arbeitsmärkte und Sozialversicherungen

  1. Discussion und Working Paper // 2008

    Self-Productivity and Complementarities in Human Development: Evidence from the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk

    This paper investigates the role of self-productivity and home resources in capability formation from infancy to adolescence. In addition, we study the complementarities between basic cognitive, motor and…

  2. Discussion und Working Paper // 2008

    Educational Expansion and its Heterogeneous Returns for Wage Workers

    This paper examines the evolution of returns to education in the West German labour market over the last two decades. During this period, graduates from the period of educational expansion entered the labour…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 08-135 // 2008

    The Creative Class, Bohemians and Local Labor Market Performance – A Micro-data Panel Study for Germany 1975-2004

    Richard Floridas Ansatz zur Erklärung regionaler Entwicklung hat weltweit nicht nur in akademischen Kreisen, sondern auch in der breiten Öffentlichkeit große Aufmerksamkeit erregt, weil er eine Verbindung…