Publikationen des Forschungsbereichs Arbeitsmärkte und Sozialversicherungen

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 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…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 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…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 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…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 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…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 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…

  6. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 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…