Publications of the Research Unit Labour Markets and Social Insurance

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 16-012 // 2016

    The Residency Discount for Rents in Germany and the Tenancy Law Reform Act 2001: Evidence from Quantile Regressions

    Most countries show a residency discount in rents for sitting tenants. In the wake of strong rent increases and housing shortages, Germany implemented a reform in 2001 to curtail rent increases. Based on linked…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 16-011 // 2016

    The Retention Effect of Training – Portability, Visibility, and Credibility

    This paper analyses the effect of training participation on employees’ retention in the training company. It for the first time empirically combines the human capital and the monopsony theory by jointly…

  3. Refereed Journal // 2016

    A Sequential Decomposition of the Drop in Collective Bargaining Coverage

    Union representation has been in strong decline in most OECD countries with potentially important consequences for wages. What drives this decline? We try to answer this question by developing and implementing a…

  4. Refereed Journal // 2016

    Measuring the Use of Human Resources Practices and Employee Attitudes: The Linked Personnel Panel

    This paper introduces a new data source available for HRM researchers and personnel economists,the Linked Personnel Panel (LPP). The LPP is a longitudinal and representative employer-employee data set covering…