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

    Training participation of a firm's aging workforce

    Pfeifer, C., Janssen, S., Yang, P. & Backes-Gellner, U., 2012, In: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training . 4, 2, p. 131-148 18 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  2. Published

    Works Councils and the Management of Human Resources: Evidence from German Establishment Data

    Pfeifer, C., 02.2014, In: Economic and Industrial Democracy. 35, 1, p. 143-163 21 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    Effects of training on employee suggestions and promotions

    Pfeifer, C., Janssen, S., Yang, P. & Backes-Gellner, U., 2013, In: Schmalenbach Business Review. 65, 3, p. 270-288 19 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    Adjustments of Wage-Tenure Profiles with Respect to Entry Age

    Pfeifer, C., 01.02.2013, In: Journal of Business Economics : JBE. 83, 2, p. 171-191 21 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  5. 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

  6. Published

    A Note on Dual Internal Labor Markets and Wages of Temporary Workers: Evidence from Linked-Employer-Employee Data

    Pfeifer, C., 06.2014, In: Journal of Labor Research. 35, 2, p. 133-142 10 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  7. Published

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

    Pfeifer, C. & Wagner, J., 31.03.2014, In: Contemporary Economics. 8, 1, p. 25-46 22 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  8. Published
  9. Published

    Ownership Structure and Firm Performance in the Egyptian Manufacturing Sector

    Abdelgouad, A. F., Pfeifer, C. & Weche Gelübcke, J. P., 2015, In: Economics Bulletin. 35, 4, p. 2197-2212 16 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    Life satisfaction in Germany after reunification: Additional insights on the pattern of convergence

    Pfeifer, C. & Petrunyk, I., 2015, Berlin: Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), 27 p. (SOEPpaper; no. 764).

    Research output: Working paperWorking papers

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  4. Ästhetische Einsamkeit: Bildung außerhalb des Kanons
  5. Optimierung zwischen Zwang und Zustimmung
  6. Individuelle Förderung statt Selektion
  7. Thema: Wissen im Recht
  8. Das Recht auf Bildung
  9. Pocket parks in a compact city
  10. The rediscovery of slowness, or leisure time as one's own and as self-aggrandizement?
  11. From the Substantive to the Ceremonial
  12. Geotextilien sind kein Sonderabfall
  13. Die Verweigerung der Arbeit: philosophische Implikationen einer politisch-ästetischen Praktik
  14. Geschäftsführung ohne Auftrag (§ 687)
  15. Darstellung der Referenzarbeit "Schmidt, Torben (2007) Gemeinsames Lernen mit Selbstlernsoftware im Englischunterricht"
  16. Was müssen Führungskräfte können ?
  17. Hin zu mehr sozialer Netzwerkverantwortlichkeit in der globalen Bekleidungsindustrie
  18. Mathematiklernen zwischen Metonymien und Metaphern
  19. Aufgabenkultur in der Hauptschule
  20. Nachhaltiger Ressourcenschutz und Recht
  21. Die Gaunerei der ökonomisierten Kunst
  22. „Die Bildredaktion dient mit ihrer Kreativität den Wünschen und Vorstellungen anderer“
  23. Parental Smoking in the Vicinity of Children and Tobacco Control Policies in the European Region
  24. Biodegradability of the Anti-tumour Agents 5-Fluorouracil, Cytarabine, and Gemcitabine
  25. Künstliche Feuchtflächen in Hochwasserrückhaltebecken – eine Chance für die Reduzierung von Pflanzenschutzmitteleinträgen in Gewässer
  26. Fundamental social motives measured across forty-two cultures in two waves
  27. Cultivation of the heterotrophic microalga Galdieria sulphuraria on food waste
  28. Initiating transdisciplinarity in academic case study teaching
  29. Personality Effects on Children’s Speech in Everyday Life
  30. The footprint of pesticide stress in communities-Species traits reveal community effects of toxicants
  31. Keine Kohle für die Kohle
  32. Managementpraxis: drei Geschäftsführer international erfolgreicher MIttelständler im Interview
  33. § 292 Haftung bei Herausgabepflicht
  34. Flippin‘ In – Ein literaturbasiertes YouTube-Inszenierungsprojekt im Englischunterricht der Klasse 11
  35. Fiktionale Fakten