Publikationen des Forschungsbereichs Arbeitsmärkte und Sozialversicherungen

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 04-54 // 2004

    Education, Gender and Earnings in France and Germany: Level and Dispersion Effects

    This paper analyses the relationship between education, gender and earnings in France and Germany. The model chosen here enables to estimate the impact of education not only on the expected earnings level but…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 04-47 // 2004

    Does Work Time Flexibility Work? An Empirical Assessment of the Efficiency Effects for German Firms

    In this paper we assess the impact of flexible work time schedules on firm efficiency using representative establishment data for Germany. Following the approach by Battese and Coelli (1995), we estimate a…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 04-41 // 2004

    Evaluating the Dynamic Employment Effects of Training Programs in East Germany Using Conditional Difference-in-Difference

    This paper evaluates the effects of Public Sponsored Training in East Germany in the context of reiterated treatments. Selection bias based on observed characteristics is corrected for by applying kernel…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 04-34 // 2004

    Returns to Education and Individual Heterogeneity

    In this paper, human capital investments are evaluated by assuming heterogeneous returns to education. We use the potential outcome approach to measure the causal effect of human capital investments on earnings…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 04-31 // 2004

    Worker Remittances and Capital Flows to Developing Countries

    Worker remittances constitute an increasingly important mechanism for the transfer of resources from developed to developing countries, and remittances are the second-largest source, behind foreign direct…

  6. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 04-26 // 2004

    New Estimates of the Duration and Risk of Unemployment for West-Germany

    This paper analyzes changes in the risk of unemployment and changes in the distribution of unemployment duration for the 26 to 41 years old working population in West-Germany during the 1980ties and 1990ties.…