Publications of the Research Unit Labour Markets and Social Insurance

• Reluctance Towards E-Cars: High Costs Not the Only Barrier to E-Mobility
• Long-Run Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Social Inequality
• Disproportionate Purchase of High-Debt Country Bonds Even Before…

In this research project we investigate how the design of school assignment rules affects social segregation and its implications for social inequality. The context of our study is the Hungarian school system,…

The rapid spread of COVID-19 forced policy-makers to swiftly find solutions to reduce infection rates and keep mortality as low as possible. Empirical analyses on the effectiveness of control measures are hereby…

• Socially Responsible Behaviour Can Slow the Spread of the Coronavirus
• Innovative Companies Are More Resilient to Crises and Less Prone to Cut Employment
• Contact-Tracing App: Creating Incentives for Fast and…

As the Covid-19 pandemic causes an all-time high share of people to work from home, this disruptive event is likely to have a long-lasting effect on work arrangements. Given existing research on the effects of…

Birth rates differ strongly across European states, despite the deep economic har-monisation process related to European integration. This study uses large scale ad-ministrative data from France and Germany to…

This paper investigates the long-term effects of the Paraguayan War (1864–1870) on intimate partner violence. The identification of these causal effects relies on a novel historical dataset from which I exploit…