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?
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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 contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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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 contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Work effort during and after employment probation: Evidence from German personnel data
Pfeifer, C., 01.02.2010, In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik. 230, 1, p. 77-91 15 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Training participation of an aging workforce in an internal labor market
Pfeifer, C., Janssen, S., Yang, P. & Backes-Gellner, U., 2010, Lüneburg: Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg, (Working paper series in economics; no. Working Paper No 170).Research output: Working paper › Working papers
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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 contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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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/works › Published abstract in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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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 paper › Working papers
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Physical Attractiveness, Employment, and Wages
Pfeifer, C., 2011, Lüneburg: Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg, 15 p. (University of Lüneburg working paper series in Economics; no. 201).Research output: Working paper › Working papers
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Effects of training on employee suggestions and promotions in an internal labor market
Pfeifer, C., Yang, P., Janssen, S. & Backes-Gellner, U., 2011, Lüneburg: Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg, 26 p. (University of Lüneburg working paper series in Econonomics ; no. 202).Research output: Working paper › Working papers
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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 paper › Working papers