1. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 14-133 // 2014

    When the Minimum Wage Bites Back: Quantile Treatment Effects of a Sectoral Minimum Wage in Germany

    In this study we investigate the minimum wage (MW) effects for a German sub-construction sector where the MW bites extraordinary hard by international standards. Within a quasiexperiment we estimate the Quantile…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 14-132 // 2014

    Spillovers in Networks of User Generated Content: Pseudo-Experimental Evidence on Wikipedia

    I quantify spillovers of attention in a network of content pages, which is challenging, because such networks form endogenously. I exploit exogenous variation in the article network of German Wikipedia to…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 14-131 // 2014

    Money and Privacy – Android Market Evidence

    We study the role of privacy in the market for mobile applications. For such programs used with smartphones and tablet PCs a very important market has emerged. Yet, neither the role of privacy on that market is…

  4. Discussion und Working Paper // 2014

    Tax Incidence in the Presence of Tax Evasion

    This paper studies the effect of tax evasion on the economic incidence of sales taxes. We design a laboratory experiment in which buyers and sellers trade a fictitious good in double auction markets. A per-unit…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 14-130 // 2014

    Overqualification of Graduates: Assessing the Role of Family Background

    Studies on the underlying mechanisms of social mobility commonly find that half of the intergenerational earnings persistence remains unexplained. Focusing on the phenomenon of overqualification, this study…

  6. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 14-129 // 2014

    Susceptibility and Influence in Social Media Word-of-Mouth

    Peer influence through word-of-mouth (WOM) plays an important role in many information systems but identification of causal effects is challenging. We identify causal WOM effects in the empirical setting of game…