Publications of the Research Unit Labour Markets and Social Insurance

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 15-085 // 2015

    Student Employment: Advantage or Handicap for Academic Achievement?

    We estimate the effects of student employment on academic performance. Performance is measured by grades achieved one and a half years after entering university. We use the amount of financial aid students…

  2. ZEWnews English edition // 2015

    11/12 - 2015

    • Top Ten Digital Economies – United States in the Lead, Germany in Mid-Range
    • The University Degree Attainment Indicator is Not Suitable for International Comparison
    • Taxation in the Far East – Why the Asia-Pacific…
  3. Discussion and Working Paper // 2015

    Measuring the Use of Human Resources Practices and Employee Attitudes: The Linked Personnel Panel

    This paper introduces a new data source available for HRM researchers and personnel economists, the Linked Personnel Panel (LPP). The LPP is a longitudinal and representative employer-employee data set…

  4. Refereed Journal // 2015

    Instrumental Variable Estimation of the Causal Effect of Hunger Early in Life on Health Later in Life

    We estimate average causal effects of early‐life hunger on late‐life health by applying instrumental variable estimation, using data with self‐reported periods of hunger earlier in life, with famines as…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 15-080 // 2015

    The Power of Individual-Level Drivers of Inventive Performance

    Based on an established theoretical framework of the drivers of inventive performance, the so-called KSAO (Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Other) factors, this paper seeks to explain empirically the…

  6. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 15-077 // 2015

    How Are Work-Related Characteristics Linked to Sickness Absence and Presenteeism? – Theory and Data

    This paper investigates how changes in work-related factors affect workers' absence and presenteeism behavior. Previous studies (implicitly) assume that there is a substitutive relationship, i.e. a change in a…