Publikationen des Forschungsbereichs Arbeitsmärkte und Sozialversicherungen

  1. ZEW-Kurzexpertise Nr. 20-10 // 2020

    Covid-19 und die sozialen Folgen für Arbeitslose

    Als Folge der Covid-19 Krise ist mit einer weiteren Zunahme der Arbeitslosigkeit zu rechnen. Neben den materiellen drohen soziale Einbußen. Erfahrungen aus der jüngeren Vergangenheit können dabei helfen, das…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 20-034 // 2020

    The Effectiveness of School Closures and Other Pre-Lockdown COVID-19 Mitigation Strategies in Argentina, Italy, and South Korea

    The rapid spread of COVID-19 forced policy-makers to swiftly find solutions to reduce infection rates and keep mortality as low as possible. Empirical analyses on the effectiveness of control measures are hereby…

  3. ZEW-Kurzexpertise Nr. 20-09 // 2020

    Working from Home and Covid-19

    As the Covid-19 pandemic causes an all-time high share of people to work from home, this disruptive event is likely to have a long-lasting effect on work arrangements. Given existing research on the effects of…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 20-025 // 2020

    Exploring the Puzzle of Human Reproduction: Register Data Based Evidence from France and Germany

    Birth rates differ strongly across European states, despite the deep economic har-monisation process related to European integration. This study uses large scale ad-ministrative data from France and Germany to…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 20-024 // 2020

    Long-Term Effects of the Paraguayan War (1864 – 1870): From Male Scarcity to Intimate Partner Violence

    This paper investigates the long-term effects of the Paraguayan War (1864–1870) on intimate partner violence. The identification of these causal effects relies on a novel historical dataset from which I exploit…

  6. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 20-016 // 2020

    Fiscal and Individual Rates of Return to University Education With and Without Graduation

    Based on a detailed model of the German tax-benefit system, this paper simulates private and fiscal returns to education for college graduates and college dropouts. Completing a five-year college degree is found…