Publications of the Research Unit Labour Markets and Social Insurance

  1. Refereed Journal // 2025

    Inequality of opportunity and intergenerational persistence in Latin America

    How strong is the transmission of socio-economic status across generations in Latin America? To answer this question, we first review the empirical literature on intergenerational mobility and inequality of…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 25-057 // 2025

    Beliefs About Bots: How Employers Plan for AI in White-Collar Work

    We provide experimental evidence on how employers adjust expectations to automation risk in high-skill, white-collar work. Using a randomized information intervention among tax advisors in Germany, we show that…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 25-058 // 2025

    The Dynamic Impact of Refugee Immigration on Native Workers

    We study how low and medium-skilled refugee immigration affects natives’ labor market outcomes. Using individual-level panel data on the German workforce for 2011–2019 and exogenous regional variation from…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 25-056 // 2025

    Holy Days, Lost Days?

    Do public holidays meaningfully affect economic output? In Germany, strict Sunday laws create a unique natural experiment: when public holidays fall on Sundays, they typically do not additionally disrupt…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 25-055 // 2025

    The Anatomy of U.S. Sick Leave Schemes: Evidence From Public School Teachers

    We study how public school teachers use paid sick leave. Most US sick leave schemes operate as individualized credit accounts: Paid leave is earned, and unused leave accumulates. We construct a unique dataset of…

  6. 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…