Publications of the Research Unit Labour Markets and Social Insurance

  1. Refereed Journal // 2009

    Beschäftigungsstabilität im Konjunkturzyklus - Eine empirische Analyse mit Individualdaten für Westdeutschland 1984 - 2005

    In this article we analyse the effects of economic up- and downturns on individual tenure in West Germany over the 1984 - 2005 period. Using data from the Socio-Economic Panel we apply log-logistic and Weibull…

  2. Refereed Journal // 2009

    Native-Migrant Differences in Risk Attitudes

    This paper questions the perceived wisdom that migrants are more risk-loving than the native population. We employ a new large German survey of direct individual risk measures to find that first-generation…

  3. Refereed Journal // 2009

    Unemployment Duration in Germany: Individual and Regional Determinants of Local Job Finding, Migration and Subsidized Employment

    Recent labor market reforms in Germany aim, among other things, at reducing unemployment by restricting passive unemployment measures, emphasizing local labor market policies and re-structuring public employment…