Publications of the Research Unit Labour Markets and Social Insurance

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 98-46 // 1998

    Mandated Benefits, Welfare and Heterogeneous Firms

    The paper constructs an asymmetric information model to investigate the efficiency and equity cases for government mandated benefits. A mandate can improve workers' insurance, and may also redistribute in favor…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 98-44 // 1998

    Do Hours Restrictions Matter? A discrete family labor supply model with endogenous wages and hours restrictions

    The labor supply of West German married and cohabiting couples is analyzed using a discrete choice model. Following van Soest (1995), the labor supply decision is based on a household utility function which is…