Publications of the Research Unit Labour Markets and Social Insurance

  1. Discussion and Working Paper // 2002

    Remittances and Capital Flows

    The debate on the risks and benefits of the globalisation of international capital markets has focused on the volume and the volatility of the main capital flows - foreign direct investment (FDI), portfolio…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 02-70 // 2002

    The Changing Life Cycle Pattern

    It is often noted that employment rates of females have been rising during the last decades. However, in contrast to men, women are often part-time employed and the allocation of working time over the life-cycle…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 02-67 // 2002

    Family and Gender Still Matter: The Heterogeneity of Returns to Education in Germany

    Using information on family background, we estimate returns to education, allowing for the heterogeneity of returns. In order to control for the unobserved heterogeneity shared by family members, we construct a…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 02-65 // 2002

    Comparison Between Unitary and Collective Models of Household Labor Supply With Taxation

    Several recent papers have shown the relevance of collective models for the empirical investigation of household labor supply and consumption. Yet the estimation of collective models in the presence of…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 02-64 // 2002

    Almost Consistent Estimation of Panel Probit Models with ‘Small’ Fixed Effects

    We propose four different GMM estimators that allow almost consistent estimation of the structural parameters of panel probit models with fixed effects for the case of small T and large N. The moments used are…