Publications of the Research Unit Labour Markets and Social Insurance

  1. Refereed Journal // 2008

    Intra- und intergenerationale Umverteilungseffekte in der bundesdeutschen Alterssicherung auf Basis humankapitaltheoretischer Überlegungen

    The paper highlights selected aspects of intra- and intergenerational earnings inequality in the German education and federal pension system, based on human capital theory. We develop a model of human capital…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 08-077 // 2008

    Consequences of Mixed Provision of Child Care - An Overview on the German Market

    Institutional early childhood education and care can be funded and delivered in various ways relying on both the public and the private sector. The provision of childcare ranges from public operation to mixed…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 08-067 // 2008

    Self-Productivity and Complementarities in Human Development: Evidence from MARS

    This paper investigates the role of self-productivity and home resources in capability formation from infancy to adolescence. In addition, we study the complementarities between basic cognitive, motor and…

  4. Refereed Journal // 2008

    Assessing Intergenerational Earnings Persistence Among German Workers

    In this study we assess the relationship between father and son earnings among (West) German Workers. To reduce the lifecycle and attenuation bias a novel sampling procedure is developed and applied to the…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 08-062 // 2008

    Explaining the Employability Gap of Short-term and Long-term Unemployed Persons

    This paper analyzes the determinants of employability differences between short-term and long-term unemployed persons. Knowing these differences could help to address active labor market policy programs more…

  6. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 08-057 // 2008

    Unemployment Persistence: Is There Evidence for Stigma Effects?

    We present evidence for a highly significant interaction between state dependence in individual unemployment risk and the business cycle. The disadvantage from having been unemployed in the previous period is…