Publikationen des Forschungsbereichs Arbeitsmärkte und Sozialversicherungen

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 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…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 00-49 // 2000

    Jobs. Jobs? Jobs! Orientierungshilfen für den Weg zu mehr Beschäftigung

    Der Reduktion der Arbeitslosigkeit kommt ein hoher Stellenwert in der wirtschaftspolitischen Debatte in Deutschland zu. Diese Studie beschreibt die Höhe und Strukltur der Arbeitslosigkeit in Deutschaknd und…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 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…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 00-07 // 2000

    Gender Wage Gap in West Germany: How Far Do Gender Differences in Human Capital Matter?

    This paper analyses the extent to which gender differences in human capital contribute to explaining the observable wage differential in favour of men and its reduction since the mid-eighties among West German…