Publications of the Research Unit Labour Markets and Social Insurance

  1. Refereed Journal // 2012

    Computers as pedagogical tools in Brazil: a pseudo-panel analysis

    The number of schools that have access to computers and the internet has increased rapidly since the beginning of the nineties. However evidence of their effectiveness as pedagogical tools to acquire reading and…

  2. Refereed Journal // 2011

    Causal Returns to Schooling and Individual Heterogeneity

    In this paper, human capital investments are evaluated by assuming heterogeneous returns to schooling. We use the potential outcome approach to measure the causal effect of human capital investments on…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 11-079 // 2011

    The Labour Market in CGE Models

    In this chapter (written for the forthcoming "Handbook of CGE Modeling", edited by P. Dixon and D. Jorgenson), we review options of labour market modelling in the framework of numerical general equilibrium…