ZEW Discussion Papers

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  1. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 98-47 // 1998

    Growing into Work - Pseudo Panel Data Evidence on Labor Market Entrance in Germany

    While the potential merits of the German apprenticeship training system seem to be fairly well documented, relatively little is known about those youths who, at one point or another, do not follow the usual…

    Arbeitsmärkte und Sozialversicherungen
  2. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 98-46 // 1998

    Mandated Benefits, Welfare and Heterogeneous Firms

    The paper constructs an asymmetric information model to investigate the efficiency and equity cases for government mandated benefits. A mandate can improve workers' insurance, and may also redistribute in favor…

    Arbeitsmärkte und Sozialversicherungen
  3. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 98-45 // 1998

    Mapping Innovative Clusters in National Innovation Systems

    In the following we will discuss the "mapping of innovative clusters in national innovation systems". For this we have used a data set of almost 3.000 firms that participated in the first and fifth survey of the…

    Innovationsökonomik und...
  4. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 98-44 // 1998

    Do Hours Restrictions Matter? A discrete family labor supply model with endogenous wages and hours restrictions

    The labor supply of West German married and cohabiting couples is analyzed using a discrete choice model. Following van Soest (1995), the labor supply decision is based on a household utility function which is…

    Arbeitsmärkte und Sozialversicherungen
  5. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 98-42 // 1998

    Minimum Wages and Poverty

    The principal justification for minimum wage legislation resides in improving the economic condition of low-wage workers. Most previous analyses of the distributional effects of minimum wages have been confined…

    Arbeitsmärkte und Sozialversicherungen
  6. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 98-41 // 1998

    Job Search Methods and Outcomes

    In this paper we investigate the process of job search, using a unique, large-scale data set for Portugal that allows us to assess the effect of job search methods on escape rates from unemployment and, in a new…

    Arbeitsmärkte und Sozialversicherungen
  7. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 98-40 // 1998

    Empirical Macromodels Under Test - A Comparative Simulation Study of the Employment Effects of a Revenue Neutral Cut in Social Security Contributions

    In dem Beitrag wird der Beschäftigungseffekt infolge einer aufkommensneutralen Senkung der Sozialversicherungsbeiträge simuliert. Zu diesem Zweck werden fünf unterschiedliche ökonomische Modelle verwendet,…

    Arbeitsmärkte und Sozialversicherungen
  8. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 98-39 // 1998

    Central Wage Bargaining and Local Wage Flexibility: Evidence from the Entire Wage Destribution

    We argue that in labor markets with central wage bargaining wage flexibility varies systematically across the wage distribution: local wage flexibility is more relevant for the upper part of the wage…

    Arbeitsmärkte und Sozialversicherungen
  9. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 98-37 // 1998

    Public Research and Industrial Innovations in Germany

    The paper deals with the effects of publicly funded research at universities, poly-technics and federal and state financed research labs on industrial innovations in Ger-many. In order to understand the current…

    Innovationsökonomik und...

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