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. 2011
  2. Published

    The heterogeneous economic consequences of work council relations

    Pfeifer, C., 2011, In: Journal of Contextual Economics (JCE) - Schmollers Jahrbuch. 131, 1, p. 59-71 13 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    The Heterogeneous Economic Consequences of Works Council Relations

    Pfeifer, C., 2011, Lüneburg: Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg, 19 p. (Working paper series in Econonomics ; no. 203).

    Research output: Working paperWorking papers

  4. Published

    Risk Aversion and Sorting into Public Sector Employment

    Pfeifer, C., 01.02.2011, In: German Economic Review. 12, 1, p. 85-99 15 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  5. Published

    Handicaps in job assignment: insiders, outsiders and gender

    Pfeifer, C., 03.2011, In: Journal of Labor Research. 32, 1, p. 1-20 20 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    Works councils, union bargaining and quits in German firms

    Pfeifer, C., 05.2011, In: Economic and Industrial Democracy. 32, 2, p. 243-260 18 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  7. Published

    Explaining Age and Gender Differences in Employment Rates: A Labor Supply Side Perspective

    Humpert, S. & Pfeifer, C., 08.2011, Lüneburg: Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg, 66 p. (University of Lüneburg working paper series in economics; no. 214).

    Research output: Working paperWorking papers

  8. Published

    Explaining Age and Gender Differences in Employment Rates: A Labor Supply Side Perspective

    Humpert, S. & Pfeifer, C., 09.2011, Book of Abstracts - EALE Cyprus 22-24 September 2011. 1 ed. p. 31 1 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksPublished abstract in conference proceedingsResearchpeer-review

  9. 2012
  10. Published

    Age and gender composition of the workforce, productivity and profits: Evidence from a new type of data for German enterprises

    Pfeifer, C. & Wagner, J., 2012, Bonn: IZA - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit, 36 p. (IZA Discussion Paper; no. 6381).

    Research output: Working paperWorking papers

  11. Published

    Age and gender composition of the workforce, productivity and profits: Evidence from a new type of data for German enterprises

    Pfeifer, C. & Wagner, J., 2012, Lüneburg: Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg, 36 p. (Working Paper Series in Economics; no. 232).

    Research output: Working paperWorking papers

  12. Published

    Ambiguous Effects of Risk Aversion on Healthy Nutrition

    Pfeifer, C., 2012, In: The Empirical Economics Letters. 11, 10, p. 991-997 7 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review