Publications of the Research Unit Labour Markets and Social Insurance

  1. Refereed Journal // 2021

    Money Also Is Sunny in a Retiree’s World

    This paper assesses the impact of financial incentives on working after retirement. The empirical analysis is based on a large administrative individual career data set that includes information about 2% of all…

  2. Discussion and Working Paper // 2021

    SSCS, Berlin 2021 Declaration on the Future of Science Communication

    Science communication for action and engagement – a proposal developed by the participants of the International Summer School “Communicating Science” 2021 in Berlin. This document was developed in five days by…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 21-104 // 2021

    Heterogeneous Responses to School Track Choice: Evidence From the Repeal of Binding Track Recommendations

    This paper studies heterogeneity in schooling decisions by socio-economic status (SES) in response to a repeal of achievement-based admissions requirements (i.e. binding track recommendations) in Germany's…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 21-102 // 2021

    The 2015 Refugee Inflow and Concerns Over Immigration

    How did the large asylum-seeker inflow to Germany in 2015 affect concerns about immigration? Using individual-level panel data for the years 2012–2018, I show that after 2015 concerns about immigration increased…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 21-094 // 2021

    Long-Term Health Insurance: Theory Meets Evidence

    To insure policyholders against contemporaneous health expenditure shocks and future reclassification risk, long-term health insurance constitutes an alternative to community-rated short-term contracts with an…

  6. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 21-087 // 2021

    Social Mobility and Economic Development

    We explore the role of social mobility as a driver of economic development. First, we map the geography of intergenerational mobility of education for 52 Latin American regions, as well as its evolution over…

  7. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 21-083 // 2021

    Mandated Sick Pay: Coverage, Utilization, and Welfare Effects

    This paper evaluates how sick pay mandates operate at the job level in the United States. Using the National Compensation Survey and difference-in-differences models, we estimate their impact on coverage rates,…