Publications of the Research Unit Labour Markets and Social Insurance

  1. Expertises // 2019

    Integrationsfortschritte: Ergebnisse der zweiten Reallabor-Befragung von Asylsuchenden

    2016 fand die erste Reallabor Befragung von Geflüchteten in der Rhein-Neckar-Region zu einem breiten Themenspektrum statt. Ende 2017 wurden die Befragten erneut mit einer Follow-up-Umfrage kontaktiert, um den…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 19-005 // 2019

    Refugees Welcome? Understanding the Regional Heterogeneity of Anti-Foreigner Hate Crimes in Germany

    In this article, we examine anti-foreigner hate crime in the wake of the large influx of asylum seekers to Germany in 2014 and 2015. By exploiting the quasi-experimental assignment of asylum seekers to German…

  3. Refereed Journal // 2019

    Gender, Informal Employment and Trade Liberalization in Mexico

    We study how import liberalization affects formal employment across gender. The theory offers a mechanism to explain how male and female formal employment shares can respond differently to trade liberalization…

  4. Refereed Journal // 2019

    Local labor market size and qualification mismatch

    This paper investigates the effect of the size of the local labor market on skill mismatch. Using survey data for Germany, I find that workers in large cities are both less likely to be overqualified for their…

  5. Refereed Journal // 2019

    Dynastic Inequality Compared: Multigenerational Mobility in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany

    Using harmonized household survey data, we analyze long‐run social mobility in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, and test recent theories of multigenerational persistence of socioeconomic…

  6. Refereed Journal // 2019

    Incentivizing Creativity: A Large-Scale Experiment with Performance Bonuses and Gifts

    This paper reports the results from a large-scale laboratory experiment that compared the impacts of a performance bonus and a wage gift on output from a creative task and a simple task. We find that the…

  7. Refereed Journal // 2019

    Why does emissions trading under the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) not affect firms’ competitiveness? Empirical findings from the literature

    Environmental policies may have important consequences for firms’ competitiveness or profitability. For the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) the empirical literature documents significant…