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Melanie Arntz is a Researcher at the ZEW Research Department "Labour Markets, Human Resources and Social Policy" since October 2002 and was appointed its deputy head in 2009. She studied geography at the University of Bonn and at the University of Minnesota. Her focus was on economic geography, development studies and geographical labour market research. She intensified her knowledge of economics and her methodological skills by completing additional undergraduate courses in economics. Her research focuses on the dynamics of individual labour market careers and on the economic performance of regional labour markets. In 2007, she finished her doctoral thesis regarding "The Geographic Mobility of Heterogenous Labour in Germany" at TU Darmstadt. In addition, she joined the faculty of the University of Heidelberg in fall 2009 as an assistant professor for "Labour Markets".
Aretz, Bodo, Melanie Arntz and Terry Gregory (forthcoming), The Minimum Wage Affects Them All: Evidence on Employment Spillovers in the Roofing Sector, German Economic Review.
Arntz, Melanie, Ralf A. Wilke and Simon M.S. Lo (forthcoming), Bounds analysis of competing risks: a nonparametric evaluation of the effect of unemployment benefits on migration, Empirical Economis.
Aretz, Bodo, Melanie Arntz, Terry Gregory and Christian Rammer (2012), Der Mindestlohn im Dachdeckerhandwerk: Auswirkungen auf Beschäftigung, Arbeitnehmerschutz und Wettbewerb, Journal for Labour Market Research 45 (3), 233-256. Download
Arntz, Melanie and Ralf Wilke (2012), Weather-related Employment Subsidies as a Remedy for Seasonal Unemployment? Evidence from Germany, LABOUR 26, 266-286.
Arntz, Melanie and Stephan L. Thomsen (2011), Crowding Out Informal Care? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Germany, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 73(3), 398-427.
Arntz, Melanie (2011), Mobilitätshemmnisse heterogener Arbeitskräfte in Deutschland, Journal for Labour Market Research 44(1), 135-141.
Arntz, Melanie (2010), What attracts Human Capital? Understanding the Skill Composition of Interregional Job Matches in Germany, Regional Studies 44, 423 – 441.
Arntz, Melanie and Stephan L. Thomsen (2010), Are Personal Budgets a Financially Sound Reform Option for the German Long-Term Carte Insurance?, Journal of Economics and Statistics 230(4), 378-402.
Arntz, Melanie and Ralf Wilke (2009), Unemployment Duration in Germany: Individual and Regional Determinants of Local Job Finding, Migration and Subsidized Employment, Regional Studies 43, 43-61.
Arntz, Melanie, Stefan Boeters, Nicole Gürtzgen and Stefanie Schubert (2008), Analysing Welfare Reform in a Microsimulation-CGE Model - The Value of Disaggregation, Economic Modelling 25, 422-439.
Arntz, Melanie and Ralf Wilke (2007), An application of cartographic area interpolation to German administrative data, Allgemeines Statistisches Archiv 91, 159-180.
Arntz, Melanie, Jochen Michaelis and Alexander Spermann (2006), Reforming Long-term Care in Germany: Preliminary Findings from a Social Experiment with Matching Transfers, Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 37-42.
Arntz, Melanie, Stefan Boeters and Nicole Gürtzgen (2006), Alternative Approaches to Discrete Working Time Choice in an AGE Framework, Economic Modelling 23, 1008-1032.
Arntz, Melanie and Alexander Spermann (2005), Soziale Experimente mit dem Pflegebudget (2004-2008) - Konzeption des Evaluationsdesigns, Sozialer Fortschritt Jg 54, Heft 8, 181-191. Download
Assaad, R. and Melanie Arntz (2005), Constrained Geographical Mobility and Gendered Labor Market Outcomes Under Structural Adjustment: Evidence from Egypt, World Development 33 (3), 431-454.
Arntz, Melanie and Alexander Spermann (2004), Wie lässt sich die gesetzliche Pflegeversicherung mit Hilfe personengebundener Budgets reformieren?, Sozialer Fortschritt Jg 53, Heft 1, 11-22.
Arntz, Melanie, Michael Feil and Alexander Spermann (2003), Die Arbeitsangebotseffekte der neuen Mini- und Midijobs - eine ex-ante Evaluation, Mitteilungen aus der Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung 36, 271-290.
Arntz, Melanie, Terry Gregory and Florian Lehmer (2012), Selektive Arbeitskräftemobilität in Deutschland: Beschäftigungschancen sind wichtiger als der Lohn, IAB-Kurzbericht 13, 1-8. Download
Arntz, Melanie and Stephan L. Thomsen (2010), The Social Long-Term Care Insurance: A Frail Pillar of the German Social Insurance System, CESifo DICE Report 8, 29-34.
Arntz, Melanie and Stephan L. Thomsen (2011), Evaluation eines personengebundenen Pflegebudgets in der ambulanten Altenhilfe, in: GKV Spitzenverband, Das Pflegebudget, Modellprogramm zur Weiterentwicklung der Pflegeversicherung Bd. 4, Berlin, 85-108.
Arntz, Melanie eds. (2009), Barriers to the mobility of heterogeneous labour in Germany, in: Niedersächsisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Regionale Beschäftigungschancen gering Qualifizierter, Eine Frage der Weiterbildung?, NIW Workshop 2008/2009 Hannover, 19-34.
Arntz, Melanie (2007), The Geographic Mobility of Heterogeneous Labour in Germany, Dissertation, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt . Download
Arntz, Melanie and Alexander Spermann (2004), Probleme einer Einführung eines personengebundenen Pflegebudgets, in: Thomas Klie, Alexander Spermann, Persönliche Budgets - Aufbruch oder Irrweg?, 1. Auflage, Ein Werkbuch zu Budgets in der Pflege und für Menschen mit Behinderungen, Hannover, S. 222-250.
Arntz, Melanie and Alexander Spermann (2004), Nationale und internationale Konzepte in der Praxis, in: Thomas Klie, Alexander Spermann, Persönliche Budgets - Aufbruch oder Irrweg?, 1. Auflage, Ein Werkbuch zu Budgets in der Pflege und für Menschen mit Behinderungen, Hannover, S.16-39.
Arntz, Melanie, Peter Jacobebbinghaus and Alexander Spermann (2004), Minijobs, Midijobs und sozialversicherungspflichtige Beschäftigung in privaten Haushalten, in: Tobias Hagen, Alexander Spermann, Hartz-Gesetze - Methodische Ansätze zu einer Evaluierung, ZEW Wirtschaftsanalysen, Bd. 74, Baden-Baden (unter Mitarbeit von: Melanie Arntz, Andreas Ammermüller, Miriam Beblo, Martin Biewen, Bernhard Boockmann, Marco Caliendo, Bernd Fitzenberger, Nicole Gürtzgen, Reinhard Hujer, Peter Jacobebbinghaus, Friedhelm Pfeiffer, Andrea Weber, Ralf Wilke, Henrik Winterhager, Elke Wolf, Gaby Wunderlich), S. 171-189.
Aretz, Bodo, Melanie Arntz and Terry Gregory (2012), The Minimum Wage Affects Them All: Evidence on Employment Spillovers in the Roofing Sector, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 12-061, Mannheim. Download
Aretz, Bodo, Melanie Arntz, Terry Gregory and Christian Rammer (2012), Der Mindestlohn im Dachdeckerhandwerk: Auswirkungen auf Beschäftigung, Arbeitnehmerschutz und Wettbewerb, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 12-060, Mannheim. Download
Arntz, Melanie, Terry Gregory and Florian Lehmer (2011), Unequal Pay or Unequal Employment? What Drives the Skill-Composition of Labor Flows in Germany?, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 11-074, Mannheim. Download
Arntz, Melanie and Stephan L. Thomsen (2008), Reforming Home Care Provision in Germany – Evidence from a Social Experiment, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 08-114, Mannheim. Download
Arntz, Melanie and Stephan L. Thomsen (2008), Crowding out Informal Care? Evidence from a Social Experiment in Germany, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 08-113, Mannheim. Download
Arntz, Melanie and Ralf Wilke (2008), How Weather-Proof is the Construction Sector? Empirical Evidence from Germany, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 08-105, Mannheim. Download
Arntz, Melanie, Markus Clauss, Margit Kraus, Reinhold Schnabel, Alexander Spermann and Jürgen Wiemers (2007), Arbeitsangebotseffekte und Verteilungswirkungen der Hartz-IV-Reform, IAB-Forschungsbericht, 10. Download
Arntz, Melanie, Simon M. S. Lo and Ralf Wilke (2007), Bounds Analysis of Competing Risks: A Nonparametric Evaluation of the Effect of Unemployment Benefits on Migration in Germany, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 07-049, Mannheim. Download
Arntz, Melanie and Ralf Wilke (2006), Unemployment Duration in Germany: Individual and Regional Determinants of Local Job Finding, Migration and Subsidized Employment , ZEW Discussion Paper No. 06-092, Mannheim. Download
Arntz, Melanie, Stefan Boeters, Nicole Gürtzgen and Stefanie Schubert (2006), Analysing Welfare Reform in a Microsimulation-AGE Model: The Value of Disaggregation, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 06-076, Mannheim. Download
Arntz, Melanie, Ralf Sacchetto, Alexander Spermann, Susanne Steffes and Sarah Widmaier (2006), The German Social Long-Term Care Insurance - Structure and Reform Options, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 06-074, Mannheim. Download
Arntz, Melanie (2006), What Attracts Human Capital? Understanding the Skill Composition of Interregional Job Matches in Germany, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 06-062, Mannheim. Download
Arntz, Melanie, Ralf Wilke and Henrik Winterhager (2006), Regionenmatching im Rahmen der Evaluation der Experimentierklausel des § 6c SGB II: Methodische Vorgehensweise und Ergebnisse, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 06-061, Mannheim. Download
Arntz, Melanie, Alexander Spermann and Jochen Michaelis (2005), Die Reform der Pflegeversicherung - weniger Kostendruck durch flexiblere Pflegearrangements?, Volkswirtschaftliche Diskussionsbeiträge Nr. 71/05, Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Kassel. Download
Arntz, Melanie, Stefan Boeters and Nicole Gürtzgen (2005), Alternative Approaches to Discrete Working Time Choice in an AGE Framework, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 05-62, Mannheim. Download
Arntz, Melanie (2005), The Geographical Mobility of Unemployed Workers, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 05-34, Mannheim. Download
Arntz, Melanie and Ralf Wilke (2005), Map Intersection Based Merging Schemes for Administrative Data Sources and an Application to Germany, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 05-20, Mannheim. Download
Arntz, Melanie and Alexander Spermann (2004), Feldexperimente mit dem Pflegebudget (2004-2008) –Konzeption des Evaluationsdesigns, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 04-84, Mannheim. Download
Arntz, Melanie, Michael Feil and Alexander Spermann (2003), Maxi-Arbeitsangebotseffekte oder zusätzliche Arbeitslose durch Mini- und Midi-Jobs?, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 03-67, Mannheim. Download
Arntz, Melanie and Alexander Spermann (2003), Wie lässt sich die gesetzliche Pflegeversicherung mit Hilfe personengebundener Budgets reformieren?, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 03-58, Mannheim. Download
Aretz, Bodo, Melanie Arntz, Sandra Gottschalk, Terry Gregory, Michaela Niefert, Christian Rammer, Helmut Schröder and Holger Schütz (2011), ZEW-Studie zu den Wirkungen eines Mindestlohns in der Dachdeckerwirtschaft, Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales (BMAS), Mannheim. Download
Workshop, ZEW/ IAB Workshop on Spatial Dimensions of the Labour Market,
ZEW Mannheim, Germany, 2009
SS 2010: Lecture "Statistics for economics and social sciences",
University of Heidelberg
WS 2010/2011: Lecture "Empirical Economics: Statistics and Econometrics",
University of Heidelberg
WS 2009/2010: Lecture and tutorial "Empirical Economics: Statistics and Econometrics",
University of Heidelberg
Adequate employment of graduates: An economical analysis of job match quality
A Microeconometric Analysis of Seasonal Unemployment in Germany
Development of an IAB Micro-Simulation Model
Evaluating existing minimum wage regulations in the roofing sector
Gender Ratios, Labor Markets and Social Stability. Evidence from Regional Variation in Germany
Potetials for the flexibization of regional labour markets by means of interregional labour mobility
Reform of unemployment insurance, unemployment assistance and social assistance
Safe Jobs but poor Pay? Minimum Wage Effects on Skilled Workers of the Roofing Sector