1. ZEW-Finanzmarktreport // 2014

    November 2014

    • fmoWeitere Abkühlung der Konjunktur erwartet
    • EZB: Inflationserwartungen gehen zurück
    • USA: Lageeinschätzung gibt auf hohem Niveau leicht nach
    • Japan: Lage- und Erwartungseinschätzung weitgehend unverändert
    • Großbritann…
  2. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 14-080 // 2014

    Youth Unemployment in the OECD: The Role of Institutions

    This paper analyzes the role of labor market institutions for youth unemployment, as contrasted to total unemployment. The empirical results are basically consistent with an insider view of labor market…

  3. Finanzmarktreport Schweiz // 2014

    November 2014

    • Düstere Konjunkturaussichten für die Schweiz
    • Inflationserwartungen erneut gesunken
    • Zinserwartungen spiegeln Konjunkturausblick wider
    • Dollaraufwertung erwartet
    • Aktienmarkterwartungen mit Dämpfer
    • Exportdynamik leidet…
  4. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 14-079 // 2014

    Housing and Health

    Deprived housing conditions have long been recognized as a source of poor health. Nevertheless, there is scant empirical evidence of a causal relationship between housing and health. The literature identifies…

  5. ZEWnews English edition // 2014

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  6. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 14-078 // 2014

    Sufficient Statistic or Not? The Elasticity of Taxable Income in the Presence of Deduction Possibilities

    The elasticity of taxable income (ETI) is often interpreted as a sufficient statistic to assess the welfare costs of taxation. Building on the conceptual framework of Chetty (2009), we show that this assertion…

  7. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 14-077 // 2014

    Intergenerational Transmission of Unemployment – Evidence for German Sons

    This paper studies the association between the unemployment experience of fathers and their sons. Based on German survey data that cover the last decades we find significant positive correlations. Using…

  8. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 14-076 // 2014

    Field of Study, Qualification Mismatch, and Wages: Does Sorting Matter?

    Graduates from Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) are usually found to have higher wages and a lower risk of overqualification. However, it is unclear whether we can interpret the effect of…

  9. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 14-075 // 2014

    Improving Voluntary Public Good Provision by a Non-Governmental, Endogenous Matching Mechanism: Experimental Evidence

    Social norms can help to foster cooperation and to overcome the free-rider problem in private provision of public goods. This paper focuses on the enforcement of social norms by a self-introduced punishment and…