Publications of the Research Unit Labour Markets and Social Insurance

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 08-039 // 2008

    The Employment Consequences of Seniority Wages

    In an international comparison, German workers have a long seniority and face larger problems to find a new job when they are older – the relative unemployment rate of people older than 55 is clearly higher in…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 08-038 // 2008

    Deja Vu? Short-Term Training in Germany 1980-1992 and 2000-2003

    Over the past few years, active labor market policies (ALMP) have placed a greater emphasis on job search assistance, monitoring and testing work availability, as well as limited training to activate the…

  3. Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings // 2008

    Comparing and Evaluating Public Expenditure on Migration

  4. ZEWnews English edition // 2008

    No. 2 - 2008

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 08-022 // 2008

    Wage Convergence and Inequality after Unification: (East) Germany in Transition

    This paper investigates the wage convergence between East German workers and their West German counterparts after reunification. Our research is based on a comparison of three groups of workers defined as…