ZEW Discussion Papers

This paper treats the question to what extent globalization trends restrict a countryspecific regulation policy in industrial countries. The empirical analysis makes use of recently collected regulation…

Job placement vouchers can be regarded as a tool to spur competition between public and private job placement activities. The German government launched this instrument in order to end the public placement…

In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird die Reaktion des DAX auf makroökonomischen Konjunkturmeldungen in Form von Veröffentlichungen des ZEW-Finanzmarkttests untersucht. Zur Messung der Reaktion stehen die 15-…

The formulation of market equilibrium problems as mixed complementarity problems (MCP)permits integration of bottom-up programming models of the energy system into top-down general equilibrium models of the…

Diese Arbeit untersucht den Zusammenhang zwischen dem gewerkschaftlichen Nettoorganisationsgrad als Maß für die Gewerkschaftsmacht und der Lohnstruktur in und zwischen Segmenten des deutschen Arbeitsmarktes in…

In this paper we study political-economy determinants of the differentiation of environmental taxes between sectors. Using a common-agency model, we provide predictions on tax differentiation which are then…

Empirical work on the wage impact of training has noted that unobserved heterogeneity of training participants should play a role. The expected return to training, which partly depends on unobservable…

Hours worked is a time series of interest in many empirical investigations of the macroeconomy. Estimates of macro elasticities of labour supply, for example, build on this variable. Other empirical applications…