Publications of the Research Unit Labour Markets and Social Insurance

  1. 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.…

  2. 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…

  3. ZEWnews English edition // 2012

    11/12 - 2012

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 12-081 // 2012

    Determinants of Individual Academic Achievement - Group Selectivity Effects Have Many Dimensions

    Almost all academic institutions regularly use graduate surveys in order to assess the determinants of academic success and labour market chances of their graduates. This paper shows how the information drawn…