Publications of the Research Unit Labour Markets and Social Insurance

  1. 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…

  2. 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…

  3. Discussion and Working Paper // 2011

    Impatience among preschool children and their mothers

    Using experimental data of children and their mothers, this paper explores the intergenerational relationship of impatience. The child’s impatience stems from a delay of gratification experiment. Mother’s…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 11-074 // 2011

    Unequal Pay or Unequal Employment? What Drives the Skill-Composition of Labor Flows in Germany?

    Regional economic prospects to some extent seem to hinge on the region’s human capital endowment and, thus, its ability to attract skilled labour. For any related policy, it is thus important to better…