Publications of the Research Unit Labour Markets and Social Insurance

Immigrants are a disadvantaged group on European labour markets. In most countries, they are over-represented in unemployment and under-represented in employment. To integrate immigrants into the labour market,…

• Fertility of Immigrants Influenced by Cultural Norms in Countries of Origin
• The German ICT Sector is Highly Active Abroad
• The Employment Effects of Innovation Differ Between Domestic and Foreign Owned Firms
• Set-Up-…

In many countries, apprenticeship training plays a major role for school leavers to enter the labour market. Despite the importance of the apprenticeship degree, dropout of apprenticeship training is frequent:…

This paper analyses in a novel way how educational investments can improve human capital formation in Europe, based on a model of age-dependent skill formation featuring dynamic complementarities. Counterfactual…

This paper investigates the role of early life adversity and home resources in terms of competence formation and school achievement based on data from an epidemiological cohort study following 364 children from…

The effects of childbirth on future labor market outcomes are a key issue for policy discussion. This paper implements a dynamic treatment approach to estimate the effect of having the first child now versus…

• Structural Change and International Trade Have Positive Effects on the Environment
• Firms Encourage Creativity of Their Employees
• Overqualification of University Graduates on the Job Varies Significantly by Field…