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Selected Publications

Transitions From Education to Work in Europe - the Integration of Youth into EU Labour Markets. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2003. (ed., with Walter Müller)

Unemployment dynamics in the United States and West Germany: Economic restructuring, institutions, and labor market processes. Heidelberg: Physica/Springer 2003.

Papers in refereed journals

Institutions and the structure of labour market matching in the United States and West Germany. European Sociological Review 20 (2004), forthcoming.

Kausalanalyse durch Matchingverfahren [Matching methods for the causal analysis of observational data]. Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsy-
chologie 56 (2004), special issue 44 (Methoden der empirischen Sozialforschung [Methodology of empirical social research]), forthcoming. (with Thomas A. DiPrete)

Assessing bias in the estimation of causal effects: Rosenbaum bounds on matching estimates and instrumental variables with imperfect instruments. Sociological Methodology 34 (2004), forthcoming. (with Thomas A. DiPrete)

Welfare states and the scar effects of unemployment: A comparative analysis of the United States and West Germany. American Journal of Sociology 109 (2004): 1319-1364.

Labor market structure and reemployment rates: unemployment dynamics in West Germany and the United States. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 20 (2004), 185-224.

The only way is up? Employment Protection and Job Mobility among Recent Entrants to European Labour Markets. European Sociological Review 19 (2003): 429-449.

Unemployment insurance and the stability of earnings: A comparison of work exits from unemployment in the United States and West Germany. Schmollers Jahrbuch 123 (2003): 83-94.

Bildung und Übergangsrisiken beim Einstieg in den Beruf: ein europäischer Vergleich zum Arbeitsmarktwert von Bildungsabschlüssen. [Returns to education at entry into the labor market: A European comparison of the economic value of education.] Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft 6 (2003): 72-89.

Changing labour markets and early career outcomes: labour market entry in Europe over the past decade. Work, Employment & Society 16 (2002), 67-90.

European perspectives on labour market entry: a dichotomy of occupationalized versus non-occupationalized systems? European Societies 3 (2001), 471-494.

Sozialhilfebezug und Arbeitsmarktverhalten. Eine Längsschnittanalyse der Übergänge aus der Sozialhilfe in den Arbeitsmarkt [Labour market behaviour of welfare recipients. A longitudinal study of welfare-to-work transitions]. Zeitschrift für Soziologie 27 (1998), 212-232. Reprinted in Italian as Tra sussido sociale e mercato del lavoro: un’ analisi empirica nella Republicca federale tedesca. Sociologia e politiche sociali 6 (2003), 147-171.