Publications of the Research Unit Labour Markets and Social Insurance

This paper analyses the causal effects of weaker dismissal protection on the incidence of long-term sickness (> six weeks). We exploit a German policy change, which shifted the threshold exempting small…

• Reluctance Towards E-Cars: High Costs Not the Only Barrier to E-Mobility
• Long-Run Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Social Inequality
• Disproportionate Purchase of High-Debt Country Bonds Even Before…

In this research project we investigate how the design of school assignment rules affects social segregation and its implications for social inequality. The context of our study is the Hungarian school system,…

The rapid spread of COVID-19 forced policy-makers to swiftly find solutions to reduce infection rates and keep mortality as low as possible. Empirical analyses on the effectiveness of control measures are hereby…

Using German administrative data, we study across-regime low-pay persistence in the context of an economic transformation process. We first show that individuals' initial allocation to the post-unification…

• Socially Responsible Behaviour Can Slow the Spread of the Coronavirus
• Innovative Companies Are More Resilient to Crises and Less Prone to Cut Employment
• Contact-Tracing App: Creating Incentives for Fast and…

As the Covid-19 pandemic causes an all-time high share of people to work from home, this disruptive event is likely to have a long-lasting effect on work arrangements. Given existing research on the effects of…