Professorship for Economics, Applied Microeconomics

Organisational unit: Professoship

Organisation profile

The department of Applied Microeconomics analyzes primarily with microeconometric research methods the behavior of individuals and firms in the areas labor, health, and education.

Main research areas

The subsequent questions are for example analyzed:

- How should an incentive compatible incentive scheme be designed?
- What determines labor supply and labor demand?
- What role does fairness play in employment and pay?
- What are the effects of works councils and unions?
- What are the effects of demographic change on employment, pay, productivity, education, and health?
- What determines health and absenteeism of workers?
- What are the effects of risk preferences on health related decisions?
- How can teaching evaluations been used for research in economics of education?
- In how far are gender specific differences rational or discriminatory?

  1. 2009
  2. Effective working hours and wages: the case of downward adjustment via paid absenteeism

    Pfeifer, C. (Speaker)

    04.11.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  3. Managing Turnover

    Pfeifer, C. (Lecturer)

    27.10.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  4. Universität Zürich

    Pfeifer, C. (Visiting researcher)

    26.10.200929.10.2009

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  5. Antrittsvorlesung, Leuphana University Lüneburg

    Pfeifer, C. (Speaker)

    18.09.2009

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  6. Deferred Compensation Schemes, Fairness Concerns, and Employment of Older Workers

    Pfeifer, C. (Speaker)

    09.09.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  7. Deferred Compensation Schemes, Fairness Concerns, and Employment of Older Workers

    Pfeifer, C. (Speaker)

    09.09.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  8. 12th Colloquium in Personnel Economics - COPE 2009

    Pfeifer, C. (Speaker)

    05.05.2009

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  9. Institutionen ökologischer Nachhaltigkeit, Evangelische Akademie Tutzing (Keynote) 2009

    Pfeifer, C. (Speaker)

    10.03.2009

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  10. An intra-firm perspective on wage profiles and employment of older workers

    Pfeifer, C. (Speaker)

    08.01.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  11. School of Management and Technology (Organisational unit)

    Pfeifer, C. (Member)

    2009 → …

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  12. The Econometric Society (External organisation)

    Pfeifer, C. (Member)

    2009 → …

    Activity: MembershipLearned societies and special interest organisationsResearch

  13. 2008
  14. European Association of Labour Economists Conference 2008

    Pfeifer, C. (Speaker)

    20.09.2008

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  15. Verein für Socialpolitik (presented by co-author)

    Pfeifer, C. (Speaker)

    09.2008

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  16. Workshop of the Anglo-German Foundation - 2008

    Pfeifer, C. (Speaker)

    05.07.2008

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  17. Department of Economics, University Bonn

    Pfeifer, C. (Speaker)

    26.06.2008

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  18. Department of Economics, University of Würzburg

    Pfeifer, C. (Speaker)

    17.06.2008

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  19. Department of Economics 2008

    Pfeifer, C. (Speaker)

    09.05.2008

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  20. Aarhus School of Business, Denmark 2008

    Pfeifer, C. (Speaker)

    28.04.2008

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  21. Spring Meeting of Young Economists - 2008

    Pfeifer, C. (Speaker)

    18.04.2008

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  22. 11th Colloquium in Personnel Economics

    Pfeifer, C. (Speaker)

    06.03.2008

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch