Publications of the Research Unit Labour Markets and Social Insurance

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 00-05 // 2000

    Cohort Effects and the Returns to Education in West Germany

    Using a Mincer-type wage function, we estimate cohort effects in the returns to education for West German workers born between 1925 and 1974. The main problem to be tackled in the specification is to separately…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 00-33 // 2000

    Collective Wage Agreements and Adjustments in German Services Firms

    There is a growing concern about collective wage agreement and employment dynamics in Germany. In this paper, evidence is provided on the way collective wage agreements affect the adjustment of working hours,…

  3. Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings // 2000

    Mehr Beschäftigung durch Lohnsubventionen?

  4. Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings // 2000

    Modeling German Unification in a Disequilibrium Framework.

  5. Discussion and Working Paper // 2000

    Criminality, social cohesion and economic performance

    The paper intends to contribute to a better understanding of the interactions between criminality, economic performance and social cohesion. We try to achieve this aim by evaluating the existing economic and…