Publications of the Research Unit Labour Markets and Social Insurance

  1. Refereed Journal // 2013

    Discrimination in Grading: Experimental Evidence from Primary School Teachers

    This paper studies the effect of teacher expectations on essay grades in an experimental setting. For this purpose, we randomly assign Turkish or German first names to a set of essays so that some teachers…

  2. Discussion and Working Paper // 2012

    Gender Wage Gaps across Skills and Trade Openness

    This paper investigates how international trade impacts the gender wage gap at different points of the skill distribution, by integrating statistical discrimination and job assignment into a model of trade.…

  3. Discussion and Working Paper // 2012

    Gender Wage Gaps across Skills and Trade Openness

    This paper investigates how international trade impacts the gender wage gap at different points of the skill distribution, by integrating statistical discrimination and job assignment into a model of trade.…

  4. Discussion and Working Paper // 2012

    Gender Wage Discrimination and Trade Openness: prejudiced employers in an open industry

    This paper sheds light on the heterogeneous impact of international trade on the gender wage gap by introducing employer taste-based discrimination in an open economy model with imperfect competition. Firms…