Publications of the Research Unit Labour Markets and Social Insurance

Ex ante evaluation of policy reform proposals in general relies either on microsimulation models or computable general equilibrium (CGE) models. This paper describes how the Centre of European Economic Research…

CART (Breiman et al., Classification and Regression Trees, Chapman and Hall, New York, 1984) and (exhaustive) CHAID (Appl Stat 29:119–127, 1980) figure prominently among the procedures actually used in data…

Cross-section inequality increased in the last decade in Germany. Wage mobility can at least partly offset the increase in cross-section inequality and thus leads to a better understanding of inequality and…

Drawing on a large-scale German Linked Employer- Employee data set, this paper studies the extent to which employers insure workers against firm-level shocks. Particular emphasis is given to the question of…

This article summarizes the results of the evaluation of the Experimentation Clause in § 6c SGB II. In particular, it compares the success of consortia and municipal authorities to activate welfare recipients.

• Government R&D Funding Should Seek High Additional Social Benefits
• Configuration of the Labour Market Affects Economic Synchronisation
• German Companies Participate Actively in the EU's Emissions Trading System
• Cent…

Almost all papers on the motivation of German firms to train apprentices take as a stylised fact that training firms have to incur net costs. This notion stems practically from one source only - a series of…