Publications of the Research Unit Labour Markets and Social Insurance

  1. Refereed Journal // 2025

    Local Labour Market Resilience: The Role of Digitalisation and Working from Home

    This article shows that digital capital and working from home were essential for the resilience of local labour markets in the context of the COVID-19 crisis in Germany. Employment responses differed widely…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 25-051 // 2025

    Televised Inflation: Measuring TV News Coverage and Its Effect on Household Expectations

    This paper introduces a novel TV news index specifically designed to track coverage of rising inflation across major US TV channels: ABC, CBS, CNN, and Fox News. The index is generated daily and aggregated into…

  3. Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings // 2025

    Karenztage und Absenkung der Lohnersatzrate – eine ökonomische Analyse

    Über das gesamte Jahr 2024 und auch im Jahr 2025 gab es in Deutschland eine leidenschaftlich geführte wirtschaftspolitische Diskussion über (zu) hohe krankheitsbedingte Fehlzeiten. Auslöser dieser breiten…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 25-042 // 2025

    Intergenerational Mobility in Latin America: The Multiple Facets of Social Status and the Role of Mothers

    We assess intergenerational mobility in terms of education and income rank in five Latin American countries—Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, and Panama—by accounting for the education and occupation of both…

  5. Expertises // 2025

    Digital Transformation and the Changing World of Work (DiWaBe 2.0): A Data Source for Research on Artificial Intelligence and Other Technologies in the Workplace

    In Germany, more than half of employees are already using artificial intelligence (AI) in the workplace, although the majority do so informally. This suggests that employees perceive AI applications as…

  6. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 25-023 // 2025

    Sorting, Status, and Shadow Education: How Track Placement Shapes Parental Investment

    Educational tracking—separating students into tracks or schools by ability — is commonplace, but access and preferences for top programs often depend on socioeconomic status (SES), reinforcing inequality. We…

  7. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 25-022 // 2025

    The Long-Run Effects of Conditional Cash Transfers: The Case of Bolsa Familia in Brazil

    Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) have become a key antipoverty policy in Latin America in the last 25 years. The ultimate goal of this kind of programs is to break the intergenerational transmission of poverty…

  8. ZEW Monthly // 2025

    04/2025 – Work in the Digital Age

    The digital transformation is opening up new ways of working, collaborating and shaping the future – whether through remote work, AI-supported processes or virtual teams. This offers opportunities for more…