Publications of the Research Unit Labour Markets and Social Insurance

The minimum wage in the roofing sector, which was introduced in 1997 and transferred to a national and generally binding level in 2003, has particularly affected the sector in Eastern Germany, even in an…

While the German wage structure has long been considered relatively stable at lower percentiles, the past two decades have seen a clear tendency towards more earnings inequality at the bottom end of the…

• Put to the Test: Opposition Party Proposals for Reforming the German Tax System
• Experiment on the Patience of Child and Mother
• Questions & Answers: Why Does Germany Fail to Attract Foreign Skilled Workers?
• How to…

In this paper, human capital investments are evaluated by assuming heterogeneous returns to schooling. We use the potential outcome approach to measure the causal effect of human capital investments on earnings…

Behavioral economics has provided striking insights that are contrary to the standard economic framework. Years of experiments, in laboratories as well as in the field, have shown the diversity of human…

Gregariousness is an important aspect of human life with implications also for labour markets. To the best of our knowledge, this paper is the first to examine gregariousness and social interaction at the…

• Deutschland trotzt unsicherem Umfeld
• Die voraussichtliche Lage in der EWU
• Ergebnisse der Maiumfrage 2012
• Eingetrübte Lage - positiver Ausblick
• Führt Offshoring zu höherem Einkommensrisiko?
• Was erklärt die zunehmende…

• Environmentally Friendly Process Innovations Encourage Hiring of New Employees
• Falling Profit Margins in E-commerce as Product Life Cycles Lengthen
• Business Tax Rates Remain Low, Despite the Crisis
• In-house…