This paper examines recent trends in employment patterns on the labor market for youth and changing returns to early employment stability over the past four decades. True state dependence is identified by exploiting exogenous variation in aggregate labor market conditions induced by differences...

In light of the remarkable number of young people who pass through a period of temp work at the beginning of their career the question arises whether labor market entry via temporary work agency (TWA) employment has any (persistent) effects on labor market outcomes. We investigate this issue...

This paper analyses the causal effects of educational mismatch on wages, individual health and job satisfaction. As educational mismatch is subject to unobserved heterogeneity in all of these fields, different identification strategies are applied to derive causal effects. In the wage...

This paper investigates the role that pre-immigration skills play in immigrants job-finding processes in Germany. We first show theoretically that the job-finding rate for the high-skilled varies depending on their search strategy: if they are prepared to look for both unskilled as well as...

Im Oktober 1998 veranstaltete die Abteilung Mikrodaten von ZUMA die Konferenz ""Forschung mit dem Mikrozensus: Analysen zur Sozialstruktur und zum Arbeitsmarkt"", an der vorwiegend Nutzer des Mikrozensus teilahmen. Hauptziel dieser ersten Nutzerkonferenz war es, ein Forum für den...