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. Published

    A Note on Smoking Behavior and Health Risk Taking

    Pfeifer, C., 01.07.2012, In: Nordic Journal of Health Economics. 1, 2, p. 135-151 17 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  2. Published

    Base salaries, bonus payments, and work absence among managers in a German company

    Pfeifer, C., 01.11.2014, In: Scottish Journal of Political Economy. 61, 5, p. 523-536 14 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    Base Salaries, Bonus Payments, and Work Absence among Managers in a German Company

    Pfeifer, C., 2012, Lüneburg: Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg, 25 p. (Working paper series in economics; no. 259).

    Research output: Working paperWorking papers

  4. Published

    Before-after differences in labor market outcomes for participants in medical rehabilitation in Germany

    Pfeifer, C., Fischer, S., Wiemer, A. & Petrunyk, I., 2014, Lüneburg: Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg, 39 p. (Working Paper Series Economics; no. 318).

    Research output: Working paperWorking papers

  5. Published
  6. Published

    Beschäftigungsstruktur und Produktivität: Empirische Befunde für deutsche Unternehmen

    Pfeifer, C. & Wagner, J., 2017, In: Wirtschaftspolitische Blätter. 64, 1, p. 63-70 8 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  7. Published

    Careers and productivity in an internal labor market

    Yang, P., Janssen, S., Pfeifer, C. & Backes-Gellner, U., 01.02.2013, In: Journal of Business Economics : JBE. 83, 2, p. 121-143 23 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  8. Published

    Cyclical absenteeism among private sector, public sector and self-employed workers

    Pfeifer, C., 03.2013, In: Health Economics. 22, 3, p. 366-370 5 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    Determinants of fair own wage perceptions: The moderating effect of works councils and performance evaluations

    Pfeifer, C., 02.01.2014, In: Applied Economics Letters. 21, 1, p. 47-50 4 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    Determinants of Female Employment in Egyptian Firms

    Abdelgouad, A. F. & Pfeifer, C., 2014, In: The Empirical Economics Letters. 13, 12, p. 1267-1275 9 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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Publications

  1. Unterrichtswirksame Fortbildungen
  2. Impact of climate change and pollution driven land use changes on Elbe river (Northern Germany) floodplain vegetation.
  3. La emancipación en educación ambiental
  4. Habitat preferences of the Levant Green Lizard, Lacerta media israelica (Peters, 1964)
  5. Climate change and modelling of extreme temperatures in Switzerland
  6. Bildung - Studium - Praxis
  7. Leuphana Sommerakademie
  8. Die Rettung des Ontologischen durch das Ontische?
  9. Popularklagen im Privatrecht
  10. Forschungsförderung unter dem Aspekt transdisziplinärer Integrationsaufgaben
  11. Hafenplanung - eine Marktübersicht
  12. Name ohne Eigenschaften
  13. Bestandsaufnahme und Würdigung der empirischen Rechnungslegungsforschung zum Goodwill Impairment Only Approach nach IFRS
  14. Higher Education for Sustainable Consumption
  15. Quality of firms' imports and distance to countries of origin
  16. Economic and Fiscal Policy Aspects of Climate Change
  17. Für Hans-Jürgen Krahl
  18. Platons politische Philosophie des Fleischesseropfers
  19. Erfolgserfassung nach Handels- und Steuerrecht sowie nach IFRS
  20. Die Steine von Venedig
  21. Wer Qualität fordert, muss Lehrergesundheit fördern
  22. Michael Hoffmann. 2017. Stil und Text. Eine Einführung (Narr Studienbücher). Tübingen: Narr/Francke/Attempto
  23. Kontakttheorie
  24. Bildung für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung in Deutschland: vom Projekt zur Struktur?
  25. Die unsichtbare Stadt
  26. "Sicherung der Tarifautonomie durch gesetzliche Verpflichtung zur Tarifeinheit?" - die Position von ver.di
  27. Weidelandschaften und Wildnisgebiete
  28. Ein "altliberaler" Denker? Helmut Schelsky zwischen Sachlichkeit und Demokratie
  29. Risikoanalyse für Human Factors
  30. Évaluation du potentiel allélopathique des composés hydrosolubles de l’orge (Hordeum vulgare L. subsp. vulgare) et du grand brome (Bromus diandrus Roth.) moyennant un bio-essai modifié
  31. The tattooings of cities
  32. Natur und Landschaft
  33. Kinder l(i)eben Sport
  34. Inflexions: Journal for Research-Creation