Publications of the Research Unit Labour Markets and Social Insurance

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 05-77 // 2005

    Employment Effects of the Provision of Specific Professional Skills and Techniques in Germany

    Based on unique administrative data, which has only recently become available, this paper estimates the employment effects of the most important type of public sector sponsored training in Germany, namely the…

  2. Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings // 2005

    Entwicklung von Führungskompetenz im gewerblichen Bereich

  3. Discussion and Working Paper // 2005

    Skill Biased Technological Change and Endogenous Benefits: The Dynamics of Unemployment and Wage Inequality

    In this paper, we study the effect of skill-biased technological change on unemployment when benefits are linked to the evolution of average income and when this is not the case. In the former case, an increase…