Publikationen des Forschungsbereichs Arbeitsmärkte und Sozialversicherungen

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 00-47 // 2000

    Empirical Determinants of Employee Resistance Against Innovations

    Employee resistance against innovations is a virulent phenomenon and there is a broad theoretical literature on its determinants. The empiri- cal evidence is scarce, however, and mainly provides descriptive…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 00-37 // 2000

    Wage Divergence and Unemployment: The Impact of Insider Power and Training Costs

    The US labour market is characterized by a high skill wage mark-up and low unemployment, while the German labour market has a low skill wage mark-up and a high, mainly unskilled unemployment rate. This paper…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 00-07 // 2000

    Gender Wage Gap in West Germany: How Far Do Gender Differences in Human Capital Matter?

    This paper analyses the extent to which gender differences in human capital contribute to explaining the observable wage differential in favour of men and its reduction since the mid-eighties among West German…

  4. ZEW-Wirtschaftsanalysen Bd. 51 // 2000

    Von der Finanzierung der Arbeitslosigkeit zur Förderung von Arbeit

    Die Arbeitsmarktpolitik in Deutschland ist angesichts der hohen Kosten, der Hinweise auf geringe oder gar fehlende Effektivität aktiver Maßnahmen und der Diskussion über negative Anreizeffekte der…