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?
- 2014
- 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 contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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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 contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
- 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 paper › Working papers
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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 contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Ownership Structure and Firm Performance in the Egyptian Manufacturing Sector
Abdelgouad, A. F., Pfeifer, C. & Weche Gelübcke, J. P., 2014, Lüneburg: Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg, 28 p. (Working Paper Series in Economics; no. 328).Research output: Working paper › Working papers
- 2013
- Published
Explaining age and gender differences in employment rates: a labor supply side perspective
Humpert, S. & Pfeifer, C., 01.03.2013, In: Journal for Labour Market Research. 46, 1, p. 1-17 17 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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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 contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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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 contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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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 contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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An Empirical Note on Religiosity and Social Trust using German Survey Data
Köbrich Leon, A. & Pfeifer, C., 2013, In: Economics Bulletin. 33, 1, p. 753-763 11 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review