ZEW Discussion Papers

ZEW Discussion Papers
ZEW Discussion Papers
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Researchers at the ZEW participate in scientific debates by publishing their papers. The papers are predominantly in English (marked). For the German papers an English abstract is available. The contributions are intended for a final publication in special interest titles. The discussion papers can be downloaded as PDF or PostScript files starting from 1.1.1998. They aimed at national and international target groups.

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 05-17 // 2005

    Educational Attainment and Returns to Education in Germany

    This paper presents evidence on the development of educational attainment and its returns on the labor market in Germany in the time period 1985-2002. Returns to education are estimated using Mincer equations.…

    Labour Markets and Social Insurance
  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 05-16 // 2005

    Neighborhood Influence and Political Change: Evidence from US School Districts

    This paper investigates how local jurisdictions in a federal system influence each other in the adoption of policy innovations. We look at school districts in Michigan and their participation in a public school…

    Corporate Taxation and Public Finance
  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 05-15 // 2005

    Rent-sharing: Does the Bargaining Regime Make a Difference? Theory and Empirical Evidence

    This paper analyses whether wages in Germany respond to firm-specific profitability conditions. Particular emphasis lies on the question of whether the extent of rent-sharing varies across different systems of…

    Labour Markets and Social Insurance
  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 05-14 // 2005

    How Does Owners' Exposure to Idiosyncratic Risk Influence the Capital Structure of Private Companies?

    This paper identifies the entrepreneur's exposure to idiosyncratic risk as an important determinant of the demand for loans and the capital structure. The analysis is based on a sample of small and medium-sized…

    Economics of Innovation and Industrial...
  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 05-13 // 2005

    Workers into Managers – Developing Leadership Competence of Production Unit Managers

    This study analyses the competence gaps of lower-level managers in a typical manufacturing plant in Germany that had recently introduced a teamwork structure. Results indicate that the managers have difficulties…

    Labour Markets and Social Insurance
  6. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 05-12 // 2005

    Planning or Propaganda? An Evaluation of Germany’s Medium-term Budgetary Planning

    In Germany, the medium-term financial planning (“Mifrifi”) was introduced at the end of the sixties. This study scrutinizes the experience of the German Bund with more than thirty years of financial planning. In…

    Corporate Taxation and Public Finance
  7. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 05-11 // 2005

    Yardstick Competition and Policy Innovation

    A simple model of yardstick competition between jurisdictions is presented. Governments of jurisdictions face the alternative to choose between an old and a new policy with stochastic payoffs. The new policy is…

    Corporate Taxation and Public Finance
  8. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 05-10 // 2005

    Imputation Rules to Improve the Education Variable in the IAB Employment Subsample

    The education variable in the IAB employment subsample has two shortcomings: missing values and inconsistencies with the reporting rule. We propose several deductive imputation procedures to improve the…

    Labour Markets and Social Insurance
  9. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 05-09 // 2005

    Die Wirkungsanalyse staatlicher Förderprogramme durch den Einsatz von Matching- und Selektionsmodellen am Beispiel der Fertigungstechnik

    Economics of Innovation and Industrial...

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