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…