ZEW Discussion Papers

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. 01-45 // 2001

    Green Tax Reform and Employment: The Interaction of Profit and Factor Taxes

    The employment effects of an ecological tax reform depend decisively on the presence of a profit tax and on the extent to which profits are taxed. This is shown in a model where firms have monopoly power on…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 01-44 // 2001

    Identifying Labour Market Dynamics Using Labour Force Survey Data

    This paper evaluates the appropriateness of the standard methodologies and the quality of the data frequently used to analyse labour market dynamics in Europe. Our results indicate that, due to recall error and…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 01-43 // 2001

    What Drives the Vacancy Rate for Information Technology Workers?

    This paper provides empirical evidence on both the magnitude and determinants of unfilled vacancies for information technology workers using cross-sectional data for 4150 German firms. Vacancies are defined as…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 01-42 // 2001

    Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation: An Extended Clean Surplus Relation

    Residual income valuation is based on the assumption that the clean surplus relation holds. As pointed out by Ohlson (2000), among others, the standard clean surplus relation is frequently violated. Moreover,…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 01-41 // 2001

    Sources of German Unemployment: Evidence from a Structural VAR Model

    This paper analyzes the dynamic effects of different macroeconomic shocks on unemployment in Germany. In a first step, a cointegration analysis of productiv- ity, prices, real wages, employment, and the…

  6. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 01-39 // 2001

    Innovation Dynamics and Endogenous Market Structure

    This paper examines empirically the relationship between innovation and market structure within a simultaneous framework at the industry level of ag-gregation. We use a model in which R&D affects both, demand…

  7. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 01-38 // 2001

    Labour Reallocation During Transition: The Case of Poland

    This paper analyses the reallocation of labour during the transition period, which is argued not only to ease the transition from a planned to market orientated economy, but also to be fundamental to the…

  8. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 01-37 // 2001

    The Economics of Crime: Investigating the Drugs-Crime Channel

    The rising trends both in drug addiction and crime rates are of major public concern in Germany. Surprisingly, the economic theory of crime seems to ignore the drugs-crime nexus, whereas the criminological…

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