Publikationen des Forschungsbereichs Arbeitsmärkte und Sozialversicherungen

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 01-41 // 2001

    Sources of German Unemployment: Evidence from a Structural VAR Model

    This paper analyzes the dynamic effects of different macroeconomic shocks on unemployment in Germany. In a first step, a cointegration analysis of productiv- ity, prices, real wages, employment, and the…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 01-37 // 2001

    The Economics of Crime: Investigating the Drugs-Crime Channel

    The rising trends both in drug addiction and crime rates are of major public concern in Germany. Surprisingly, the economic theory of crime seems to ignore the drugs-crime nexus, whereas the criminological…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 01-36 // 2001

    Wage Rigidities in Western Germany?

    This paper investigates whether and in what sense the west German wage structure has been ‘rigid’ in the 1990s. To test the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled…

  4. Referierte Fachzeitschrift // 2001

    Loosening Hours Constraints on the Supply of Labor. What if Germans Had a Dutch Labor Market?

    Der Mangel an adäquaten Teilzeitarbeitsplätzen und die geringe Flexibilität der Arbeitszeiten gelten als Hemmschuh des Beschäftigungswachstums und der Wohlfahrt in Deutschland. Ziel dieser Studie ist es, die…