Publikationen des Forschungsbereichs Arbeitsmärkte und Sozialversicherungen

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 21-046 // 2021

    Intergenerational Transmission of Lockdown Consequences: Prognosis of the Longer-Run Persistence of COVID-19 in Latin America

    The shock on human capital caused by COVID-19 is likely to have long lasting consequences, especially for children of low-educated families. Applying a counterfactual exercise we project the effects of…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 21-045 // 2021

    Do Preferences for Urban Amenities Really Differ by Skill?

    City-level policies often aim at attracting skilled workers by improving urban amenities. However, due to endogeneity problems, studies relying on revealed preferences have difficulties in providing…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 21-041 // 2021

    Precocious Inventors: Early Patenting Success and Lifetime Inventive Performance

    This paper shows that inventors with an early patenting success have a higher inventive productivity during their remaining career. We use European patent data for a period of 32 years for 1240 German inventors.…

  4. ZEW policy brief Nr. 21-01 // 2021

    Mit verbindlichen Grundschulempfehlungen erreichen Grundschüler/innen bessere Leistungen, empfinden aber auch mehr Stress

    Das Für und Wider von verbindlichen Empfehlungen für weiterführende Schulen nach der Grundschule wird in Wirtschaft und Politik kontrovers diskutiert. Die gesetzlichen Vorgaben zum Übergang von der…