In dieser Studie werden auf der Basis eines Mikrosimulationsmodells Nettoerträge und Renditen von Bildungsinvestitionen in Deutschland untersucht. Dabei wird ein Studium mit einer Berufsausbildung und eine Berufsausbildung mit der Alternative weder Berufsausbildung noch Studium verglichen. Nach...

"Gregariousness and social interaction are important aspect of human life with implications also for labour markets. To the best of our knowledge, this paper is the first to examine gregariousness and social interaction at the workplace and associated wages for Germany. Our empirical findings...

"This paper makes a direct comparison of the relative effectiveness of job placement vouchers and the contracting out of placement services. The study is based on the process data of the Federal Employment Agency (Bundesagentur für Arbeit) and refers to the year 2004. The proportion of people...

"This article discusses from an economic point of view, both theoretically and empirically, whether firm foundation enhances employment, taking into account public regulation and promotion of firm foundation. Obviously, newly founded firms create employment. Simultaneously, however, competition...

"This article presents selected results from the research project 'Effects on jobs of non-profit-making temporary employment businesses in Rhineland-Palatinate', which was carried out by the Centre for European Economic Research on the instructions of the IAB and the Rhineland-Palatinate...

"In this paper the question as to the determinants of the search for self-employment instead of a job in dependent employment is analysed. Among other things it is tested whether in the group of jobseekers, the unemployed are more likely than the economically active or other non-active people to...

"In this paper, the extent and consequences of nominal and negotiated wage rigidities are examined micro-economically and micro-econometrically. The analysis shows that wage rigidities are by no means rare in Germany. They lead to bloated wages and considerable wage increases and, at the limit,...

Many children grow up with parents working abroad. Economists are interested in the achievement and well-being of these "home alone" children to better understand the positive and negative aspects of migration in the sending countries. This paper examines the causal effects of parents' migration...

In this paper, human capital investments are evaluated by assuming heterogeneous returns to schooling. We use the potential outcome approach to measure the causal effect of human capital investments on earnings as a continuous treatment effect. Empirical evidence is based on a sample of West...