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23 May 2012

Seminar In absolute or relative terms? How framing prices affects the consumer price sensitivity of health plan choice
Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

Abstract:This paper provides field evidence on (a) how price framing affects consumers' decision to switch health insurance plans and (b) how the price elasticity of demand for health insurance can be influenced by policymakers through simple regulatory efforts. In 2009, in order to foster competition among health insurance companies, German federal regulation required health insurance companies to express price differences between health plans in absolute Euro values rather than percentage point payroll tax differences. Using individuallevel panel data, as well as aggregated health plan-level panel data, we find that the reform led to a sixfold increase in an individual's switching probability and a threefold demand elasticity increase.

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Speaker
  • Nicolas R. Ziebarth (Cornell University)
Time
6.30 - 8.00 pm
Location
Berliner Büro des RWI Hessische Straße 10 10115 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 158
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external
, FU Berlin
16 May 2012

Seminar Stealing to Survive: Crime and Income Shocks in 19th Century France
Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

Abstract: Using department level administrative data from 1826 to 1936 we document the evolution of crime rates in 19th century France and we estimate the impact of a negative income shock on crime. Our identification strategy exploits the phylloxera crisis. Between 1863 and 1890, phylloxera destroyed about 40% of French vineyards. Using the departmental variation in the timing of this shock we instrument wine production and we identify the effects of the shock on property and violent crime rates. Our estimates suggest that the phylloxera crisis did not significantly impact on violent crimes but caused a strong increase in property crimes. A back-of-the-envelope calculation suggests that the phylloxera crisis caused an increase in property crime rates of about ten percent.

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Speaker
  • Roberto Galbiati (CNRS Paris)
Time
6.30 - 8.00 pm
Location
Freie Universität Berlin Raum 202 Boltzmannstr. 20 14195 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 158
Contact(s)
external
, FU Berlin
16 May 2012

SOEP Brown Bag Seminar SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Day care (quality) and differences in child outcomes

Studies in recent years show that universal child care has a beneficial impact on children‘s outcomes (e.g., Havnes/Mogstad 2009, 2011, Datta‐Gupta/Simonsen 2010, 2011). However evidence remains mixed on whether all types of day care attendance have a positive effect on children's development.  Some papers show that day care attendance can also negatively influence child outcomes: e.g. Seyda (2009) or Landvogit et al. (2007) examine if day care attendance increases children's likelihood to attend higher secondary education by accounting for full-time and part-time day care attendance. Both studies conclude that a longer duration decreases children's likelihood of higher secondary schooling. Yet, these studies investigate attendance vs. non‐attendance, or formal care vs. informal care, but day care "quantity" and day care quality are rarely differentiated.

By combining data from the German Socio-Economic Panel study (SOEP) and administrative data on day care quality, this paper examines potential effects of duration of day care attendance as well as the underlying structural quality of day care institutions at the "Jugendamtsbezirk" (youth welfare office) level on changes in children's health or personality traits. If parents regard day care as an investment in the human capital of children, they were to prefer day care centers with "better" quality. Day care facilities vary in terms of structural quality, e.g. staff-child-ratio, group size, or education of day care teachers. Hence while it might be beneficial to attend a day care center, a longer stay at a facility with mediocre quality might have negative consequences.  This paper investigates in what way a child's duration of day care attendance and the quality of day care facilities influences differences in children's health or personality traits between age three and six. Preliminary results indicate that day care quality explains some of the variation in children's health and personality traits between age three and six.

Speaker
  • Frauke H. Peter, DIW Berlin
Time
12:30 - 13:30
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 344
15 May 2012

Berlin Lunchtime Meeting The Future of Natural Gas in the "Energiewende" - Pipelines, Supply Security, and Fuel Mix in Germany and Europe

Presenter: Dr. Jeff Makholm, Boston, USA, leads the Natural Gas Practice at National Energy Research Associates (NERA), he is a world-known expert in the natural gas sector and pipeline regulation in particular, and has advised industry and governments in the US, Asia, and Europe. Makholm is also author of a recent book "The Political Economy of Pipelines", University of Chicago Press (2012).
Presenter: Dr. Klaus-Robert Kabelitz is Chief Economist of E.on Ruhrgas, one of the leading European players in natural gas, and in the energy field at large. Dr. Kabelitz has over 30 years of experience in the industry, and is an imminent specialist in German and European natural gas issues.
Discussant: Prof. Christian von Hirschhausen is Research Director at DIW Berlin, and Chair of the Workgroup for Infrastructure Policy (WIP) at Berlin University of Technology (WIP).
Moderator: Prof. Anne Neumann is Chair of Economic Policy at Potsdam University, and Research Professor at DIW Berlin.

Natural gas has turned from being a niche fuel to a major player in the European energy mix and beyond, and it expected to become a critical resource for succeeding the "Energiewende", i.e. the decarbonization process under way in Germany and in Europe. The objective of this DIW Berlin-OECD Lunchtime meeting is to discuss the future of natural gas and the related policies, i.e. pipeline development, import and trading, etc. From various angles: Are the German and European energy policies well positioned for the decarbonization via natural gas? What pipeline developments are required to support the low-carbon transformation? Will we observe similar issues as with electricity transmission lines? And what can be learned from other counties to foster the regulation of the natural gas sector?

Registration is required. Please send an email to: . We look forward to your participation.  

Time
12:00 - 13:00
Location
DIW Berlin (Schumpeter Saal) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
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at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 569
14 May 2012

Invited Lecture Puzzle or Paradox: Technology Transfer and Climate Change

Abstract

This presentation deals with a simple, but nonetheless important question: Is it possible to combat with the challenge of global climate change through innovation and technology transfer even without a global treaty? Or do carbon leakage and the rebound-effect imply that it is possible to take advantage of technological improvements under the umbrella of a global arrangement only?

For answering this question a world with full international cooperation is compared with a world, where countries act non-cooperatively. More precisely, in case of non-cooperation and technology transfer three different cases are discussed. The first one is called Kyoto-plus, the second one labeled Kyoto-reversed, and the third one is nicknamed Kyoto-abolished. In all cases we employ a non-cooperative 2-stage game. Kyoto-plus means that in stage 1 the North decides: (1) to unilaterally reduce its domestic greenhouse gas emissions and (2), to transfer technological knowledge to the South. In stage 2 the South chooses its welfare maximizing inputs of carbon energy into regional production. If Kyoto-reversed is considered, in stage 1 the North decides on transferring technology while the South commits itself to reduce emissions in stage 2. Kyoto-abolished implies that although in stage 1 the North decides to transfer technologies to the South, neither the North nor the South commits them-selves on greenhouse gas mitigation. Instead in stage 2 both regions simultaneously choose their inputs of carbon energy into regional production.

Speaker
Time
14:00-15:00
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
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at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 329
11 May 2012

Seminar Supply side responses to demand reductions in fossil fuel markets

Knut Einar Rosendahl from Statistics Norway is a well-renowned economist and researcher on international energy resource markets and climate economics. Since the 1990s he has contributed significantly to the modeling literature of natural gas and crude oil markets. More recently, he has focused on the economic analysis of climate change and climate policy. His talk will present a combination of two recent papers from both fields, under the title "Supply side responses to demand reductions in fossil fuel markets".

More informationen about the research project RESOURCES 

Speaker
Time
10:00-12:00
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 337
Contact(s)
external
Prof. Dr. Christian von Hirschhausen
11 May 2012

Applied Micro Seminar Aggregation without the aggravation? Nonparametric analysis of the representative consumer

Abstract:
In the tradition of Afriat (1967), Diewert (1973) and Varian (1982), we provide a revealed preference characterisation of the representative consumer. Our results are simple and complement those of Gorman (1953, 1961), Samuelson (1956) and others. They can also be applied to data very readily and without the need for auxilliary parametric or statistical assumptions. We investigate the application of our characterisation by means of a balanced microdata panel survey. Our findings provide robust evidence against the existence of a representative consumer for our data.

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Speaker
  • Frederic Vermeulen, Tilburg University
Time
13:15-14:45
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 165
10 to 11 May 2012

Conference Micro-Level Analysis of Well-Being in Central Asia

The transition from a planned to a market economy has had dramatic consequences in all post-Soviet republics but especially so in Central Asia. Twenty years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, we wish to examine the well-being of individuals and households in these countries.


We aim at bringing together researchers from several disciplines, especially economics, sociology, geography, and anthropology, in this conference.

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at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 477
10 to 11 May 2012

Graduate Center Masterclasses Introduction to Matching and Weighting Estimators

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Speaker
  • Marco Caliendo, Potsdam University
Time
Do 14:00-18:30/Fr 09:30-12:30
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 210
09 May 2012

Seminar The effect of unemployment on the mental health of spouses - Evidence from plant closures in Germany
Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

Abstract:
Previous studies on the health effects of unemployment neglect spillover effects on spouses. This study estimates the effect of one spouse's unemployment on the mental health of the other spouse. In order to give the estimates a causal interpretation, this study focuses on an exogenous entry into unemployment (plant closure), and combines matching based on entropy balancing and difference-in-difference to make the estimation robust against selection on observables and time-invariant unobservables. Using German Socio-Economic Panel Study data this paper finds that unemployment decreases the mental health for spouses almost as much as for the directly affected individuals. The findings highlight that previous studies underestimate the public health costs of job loss as they do not consider the consequences for spouses.

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Speaker
  • Jan Marcus, DIW Berlin
Time
6.30-8.00 pm
Location
Humboldt Universität Berlin Room 125 Spandauer Str. 1 10178 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 158
Contact(s)
external
, FU Berlin
09 May 2012

Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions The Generalized Roy Model and The Cost-Benefit Analysis of Social Programs

The standard analysis of treatment eff ects only considers the gross benefi t of treatment and does not consider the cost as perceived by the agents or the surplus arising from participation in programs (the private subjective evaluation of the program). This paper extends the analysis of Heckman and Vytlacil (1999, 2005) to identify parameters measuring the costs and net gains of arising from participation in a program within the context of a generalized Roy model. The analysis does not require that the analyst observe the subjective cost of treatment. Instead, we use information derived from agent choices about participating in a program to infer the cost of treatment as perceived by the agent. We apply our methodology to the analysis of college choice and nd that variability in net gains from attending college is mainly due to variability in the cost associated with schooling.

Speaker
  • Philipp Eisenhauer (ZEW Mannheim)
Time
16:30-17:30
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 308
04 May 2012

Applied Micro Seminar Subjective Beliefs as Determinants of Fiscal Policy: Survey Evidence from German Politicians

Abstract
This talk gives an overview about the use of original surveys conducted among German politicians for the study of fiscal policy. The first study (Heinemann and Janeba, German Economic Review, 2011) uses a survey of members of the German Bundestag to understand the politicians’ subjective beliefs about the role of taxes for business  location decisions. It is shown that ideology is a major determinant which appears to be in conflict with traditional economic theory, as the question relates to non-ideological issues. In the second study (Janeba and Osterloh, ZEW Discussion Paper, 2012) a survey of mayors in Baden-Württemberg is used to determine empirically the spatial pattern of competition among jurisdictions for business investment through the use of the local business tax rate (Gewerbesteuer). The empirical pattern is then used to develop a new theoretical model of tax competition which in important aspects is consistent with empirical evidence on tax trends in Baden-Württemberg. Finally, the talk provides first descriptive results of a survey of members of all state parliaments in Germany to assess the likelihood and consequences of (not) implementing a debt break rule (Schuldenbremse) at the state level.

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Speaker
  • Eckhard Janeba, University of Mannheim
Time
13:15-14:45
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 210
03 May 2012

Berlin Behavioral Economics Seminar Series The Good, the Bad and the Naive: Do good experts choose fair prices or do fair prices induce good behaviour

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Speaker
  • Uwe Dulleck, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
Time
16:15-17:45
Location
DIW Berlin (Schumpeter Saal) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
02 May 2012

Seminar Quality Upgrading and Price Heterogeneity: Evidence from Brazilian Exporters
Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

Abstract:
This paper studies the relation between quality upgrading and pricing across firms and destination countries. The paper builds a model based on heterogeneous firms that set quality and prices to heterogeneous consumers. To test the predictions of this model, the paper uses a uniquely rich data that combines producer quality information and exporter prices by firm and destination country. Direct evidence on self-reported quality upgrading over time makes it possible to separate the quality effect from other sources of price variation, using a difference-in-difference-in-differences approach, that discerns quality upgrading by destination market and timing. Results document quality-based market segmentation, by which firms raise quality and prices at high-income destinations.
The paper shows that the difference in prices across countries is not driven by differences in market shares, markups, or elasticities of substitution, but by demand for quality in high-income destinations.

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Speaker
  • Lisandra Flach, University of Mannheim
Location
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin Raum B002/3 Reichpietschufer 50 10785 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 158
Contact(s)
external
, FU Berlin
02 May 2012

SOEP Brown Bag Seminar SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
It’s the Economy, Stupid: A Context-based Theory of Civic and Political Participation in Germany

There has been a recent shift in Political Science towards integrating
aggregate-level contextual factors into the study of individual-level
political behaviors. while intriguing, findings are inconsistent and
this research area is bereft of theoretical underpinnings. The
underlying idea that drives my dissertation is that civic and
political participation are, at least partially, a response to
economic, political and social realities.The literature on social
context is rooted in the idea that the perception of threat influences
civic and political behaviors. As I argue, perceptions of the threat
represented by foreigners-and thus the impact of social context-vary
based on local economic context. Foreigners are more likely to be seen
as threatening in cities with restricted capacities to fulfill their
traditional welfare tasks, which has consequences for civic and
political behaviors.To develop this theory, I merge SOEP data with
city-level economic, social and demographic data

Speaker
  • Lindsay M. Pettingill (Georgetown University)
Time
12:30 - 13:30
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 344
26 April 2012

Workshop Methods to Estimate the Gross Employment Effects of Environmental Protection

Time
10:00 - 17:00
Location
DIW Berlin (Ferdinand-Friedensburg-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 280
23 to 27 April 2012

Workshop TAMNEAC Training Camp

The consortium of the Training and Mobility Network for the Economic Analysis of Conflict (TAMNEAC) will hold its second project meeting in Kampala, Uganda on 23-28 April 2012. The Training Camp will take place in cooperation with Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC).

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at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 277
23 to 24 April 2012

Seminar Dealing with Selection on Unobservables
Berliner Netzwerk Arbeitsmarkt (BeNA) Lecture Series 2012

We are happy to announce that on April 23rd and 24th, Joseph Altonji will hold three lectures and one research talk as part of the 2012 Lecture Series of the Berlin Network of Labour Market Research (BeNA).

Dates and Time
 10-12am2-4pm
Monday, April 23first lecturesecond lecture
Tuesday, April 24third lectureResearch talk

The lectures and the research talk will be given in English, are free of charge, and are open to the interested public (please register by e-mail to ).

The Berlin Network of Labour Market Researchers (BeNA) was founded in 2004 as a forum for the discussion and development of research projects by young labour market researchers working at universities and research institutions in Berlin. At the heart of the network lies the weekly Seminar on Labor Research and the Lecture Series. Previous BeNA lectures were held by Manuel Arellano, Steve Pischke, Steve Machin, Michael Lechner, Andrea Ichino, Robert Hart and Gerald van den Berg.

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Speaker
  • Prof. Joseph Altonji (Yale University)
Location
Hertie School of Governance Raum: Forum A Friedrichstr. 180 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 424
18 April 2012

Seminar Flexibilisation without Hesitation? Temporary Contracts and Workers' Satisfaction
Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

Abstract: Labour market flexibilisation has long been considered a key policy tool for increasing employment. However, sceptics argue that workers suffer from labour market flexibilisation. While empirically investigating the psychological costs of temporary contracts, we question this argument for one flexibilisation instrument. We test whether temporary contracts are associated with different well-being outcomes and identify those workers who suffer the most. Furthermore, we include the "flexicurity" idea into our analysis. As a policy advice, this concept assumes that labour market flexibilisation is acceptable for workers when it is accompanied by employment security.

Most of the research on well-being consequences of fixed-term contracts does not lead to clear results. A comprehensive review of this literature reveals a need for theoretical and methodological clarification. We argue that in contrast to these studies, important aspects such as the honeymoon-hangover effect, the role of job characteristics and personality traits have to be considered. By taking these factors into account and using several opportunities of the German Socio-Economic Panel, our empirical strategy enables us to shed valuable new light on job satisfaction in fixed-term contracts.

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Speaker
  • Clemens Hetschko (FU Berlin)
Time
6.30 - 8.00 pm
Location
Berliner Büro des RWI Hessische Straße 10 10115 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 158
Contact(s)
external
, FU Berlin
13 April 2012

Applied Micro Seminar Analyzing market participation in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme

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Speaker
  • Anita Engels, University of Hamburg
Time
13:15-14:45
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 210
12 to 13 April 2012

Graduate Center Masterclasses Bayesian estimation of DSGE models

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Speaker
  • Michel Juillard, Bank of France
Time
Do 14:00-18:30/Fr 09:30-12:30
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 210
12 April 2012

Berlin Lunchtime Meeting ESBies: Eine Zwei-Säulen-Strategie für Europa

Vortrag: Markus K. Brunnermeier | Princeton University
Kommentar: Dr. Christian Kastrop | Bundesministerium der Finanzen
Moderation: Dr. Ferdinand Fichtner | DIW Berlin

Eine europäische Schulden- und Fiskalstruktur ist nur gut, wenn sie auf zwei Säulen beruht. Zum einen muss ein institutioneller Rahmen geschaffen werden, der negative Externalitäten der Verschuldung einzelner Mitgliedsländer der Eurozone in Grenzen hält. Zum anderen ist Marktdisziplin zwingend notwendig, denn nur die dadurch entstehenden Zinsdifferenzen führen zu notwendigen und einschneidenden Anpassungsprozessen.

Der Vortrag wird verschiedene europäische Bondstrukturen vergleichen. Ziel ist es dabei, den Teufelskreis zwischen Staatenrisiko und Bankenrisiko zu zerschlagen; Verzerrungen durch Kapitalflucht zu begrenzen; langfristig ein sicheres Anlageinstrument zu schaffen, das US-Staatspapieren in Volumen und Sicherheit nicht nachsteht; die Freiheit zu behalten, zu welchem Grade sich Mitgliedsstaaten zu einer Fiskalunion zusammenschließen wollen und langfristig eine stabilitätsorientierte Geldpolitik zu ermöglichen.

Markus K. Brunnermeier | Edwards S. Sanford Professor an der Princeton University. Faculty Member am Department of Economics und verbunden mit dem Princeton Bendheim Center for Finance und der International Economics Sektion, Direktor des Princeton Julis Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Finance. Er ist Research Associate am CEPR, am NBER und am CESifo sowie Visiting Scholar bei der Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

MDg Dr. Christian Kastrop | Leiter der Unterabteilung für Grundsatzfragen der Finanzpolitik am Bundesministerium der Finanzen.

Dr. Ferdinand Fichtner | Leiter der Abteilung Konjunkturpolitik am DIW Berlin.

Die Veranstaltung findet in deutscher Sprache statt.

Wir freuen uns auf Ihre Teilnahme an dieser Veranstaltung und bitten Sie, Ihre verbindliche Anmeldung via E-Mail an zu senden.

Time
12:00 - 13:00
Location
DIW Berlin (Schumpeter Saal) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 569
11 April 2012

Seminar The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States
Berliner Netzwerk Arbeitsmarkt (BeNA) Lecture Series 2012

Abstract: We analyze the effect of rising Chinese import competition between 1990 and 2007 on local U.S. labor markets, exploiting cross-market variation in import exposure stemming from initial differences in industry specialization while instrumenting for imports using changes in Chinese imports by industry to other high-income countries. Rising exposure increases unemployment, lowers labor force participation, and reduces wages in local labor markets. Conservatively, it explains one-quarter of the contemporaneous aggregate decline in U.S. manufacturing employment. Transfer benefits payments for unemployment, disability, retirement, and healthcare also rise sharply in exposed labor markets. The deadweight loss of financing these transfers is one to two-thirds as large as U.S. gains from trade with China.

The Berlin Network of Labour Market Researchers (BeNA) was founded in 2004 as a forum for the discussion and development of research projects by young labour market researchers working at universities and research institutions in Berlin. At the heart of the network lies the weekly Seminar on Labor Research and the Lecture Series. Previous BeNA lectures were held by Manuel Arellano, Steve Pischke, Steve Machin, Michael Lechner, Andrea Ichino, Robert Hart and Gerald van den Berg.

Speaker
  • David Dorn (CEMFI Madrid)
Time
6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Location
DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
11 April 2012

Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions Labor supply of mothers with young children: Validating a structural model using a natural experiment

In this paper we estimate an intertemporal structural model of labor supply for mothers with young children. In order to validate the structural model, we make use of a recently introduced parental leave reform in Germany. We compare the behavioral predictions of the structural model under the reform (out-of-sample fit) to results based on an evaluation of the parental leave reform as a natural experiment. We show that the structural model predicts actual behavior reasonably well. Based on both methods we find that due to the new parental leave scheme, that pays higher benefits for a shorter period of time, labor supply of mothers in the first year after giving birth declines, however increases in the second year. The results differ by socio-economic characteristics. We find the strongest effects for low-income mothers, who have a significantly higher probability to return to work two years after giving birth than under the old parental leave scheme.

Speaker
  • Dr. Katharina Wrohlich, DIW Berlin
Time
12:00-13:00
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 308
04 April 2012

SOEP Brown Bag Seminar SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Integrating Inequality in Multidimensional Poverty Indices: The Correlation Sensitive Poverty Index

The study deals with the inclusion of inter-personal inequality in multidimensional poverty indices. Inter-personal inequality is usually equated with association among poverty dimensions, i.e. whether a substitute, complement, or independent relationship exists among the poverty dimensions in question. The equation produced a situation where the existence of simultaneous deprivations serves as the main justification for poverty measures to go beyond simple averages, yet is usually neglected in the actual calculations. This is also the case for the popular Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) utilised by UNDP in their Human Development Reports. The study questions the appropriateness of the equation and suggests to take a more holistic approach by defining inter-personal inequality as the association-sensitive spread of simultaneous deprivations across the population. The suggested definition is introduced in the form of a new axiom and it is demonstrated how this proceeding leads to a new identification method and eventually to a new class of correlation sensitive poverty indices. This new class is unique in the sense that it is the first class of additive poverty indices that i) is able to account for the fact that households may suffer from simultaneous deprivations, and ii) is association-sensitive. An example from India illustrates the empirical relevance of the new methodological approach. In particular, evidence is provided that reveals how the additional information provided by the new indices when compared to the MPI has the potential to improve the targeting of poverty reduction policies.

Speaker
  • Nicole Rippin (Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik)
Time
12:30 - 13:30
Location
DIW Berlin (Ferdinand-Friedensburg-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 308
03 April 2012

Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions Effects of changes in student composition on teacher mobility. Evidence from the admission reform

This paper examines teacher job mobility using matcher employee-employer panel data from Stockholm municipality upper secondary schools. I utilize the exogenous change in upper secondary school admission which led to the sharp reshuffling of students within the municipality. This quasi experimental set up provides a unique opportunity to investigate the relationship between changes in student attributes and changes in teacher quality and turnover, which are not confounded with changes in school or neighborhood characteristics. Comparison of ordinary least squares and difference-in-differences estimates suggest that the former ones are severely biased and could provide a highly misleading, from policy perspective, conclusions. The causal estimates indicate that schools that experience upward shocks in student quality are more successful in retaining teachers, in particular, these that are more experienced and of high cognitive skills. Furthermore, I do find significant heterogeneity in the impact of minorities and principals compensatory behavior towards teachers. Nonetheless, the results suggest that student characteristics are endogenous to teacher turnover decisions.

Speaker
  • Krzysztof Karbownik (Uppsala University)
Time
12:30-13:30
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 308
30 March 2012

Reception Eröffnung der PFiF-Außenstelle in Berlin

Das Projekt FDZ im FDZ (PFiF) ist ein Kooperationsprojekt zwischen dem Forschungsdatenzentrum der Bundesagentur für Arbeit im Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (FDZ der BA im IAB) und dem Forschungsdatenzentrum der Statistischen Ämter der Länder (FDZ). Ziel ist es, den Zugang zu den Daten der Bundesagentur für Arbeit in Deutschland zu vereinfachen. Das FDZ des Amtes für Statistik Berlin-Brandenburg ist dabei als einer von vier Pilotstandorten in Deutschland maßgeblich an der Erweiterung der Datenzugangsmöglichkeiten in Richtung Remote Data Access beteiligt.

Seit Anfang 2012 ist der Datenzugang im FDZ, das eine Außenstelle im Deutschen Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Berlin hat, möglich, und wurde bereits von vielen Gästen genutzt.

Wir laden Sie hiermit herzlich zur feierlichen Eröffnung der Räumlichkeiten ein. In diesem Rahmen wird darüber hinaus interessierten Datennutzern das Forschungsdatenzentrum der BA im IAB sowie das Forschungsdatenzentrum der Statistischen Ämter der Länder vorgestellt.

Über Ihr Kommen freuen wir uns sehr!

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Speakers
  • Prof. Dr. Gert G. Wagner, DIW Berlin
  • Stefan Bender, Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung
    Prof. Dr. Ulrike Rockmann, Amt für Statistik Berlin-Brandenburg
Time
10:00 - 13:30
Location
DIW Berlin (Schumpeter Saal) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 181
29 to 30 March 2012

Graduate Center Masterclasses Discrete choice: Basics, new developments and applications in the transport sector

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  • Juan de Dios Ortúzar, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Time
Do 14:30-18:30/Fr 09:30-12:30
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
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at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 210
29 to 30 March 2012

Symposium Eighth International Young Scholar German Socio-Economic Panel Symposium

For the 8th time the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS) of the University of Bremen and the Jacobs University and the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) in collaboration with the Hanse Institute for Advanced Study (HWK) are pleased to announce the
"International Young Scholar German Socio-Economic Panel Symposium".

The symposium provides an opportunity for doctoral students of all disciplines (e.g. economics, demography, psychology, sociology, public health, geography) at any stage of their doctoral thesis, to present empirical research in progress - carried out with panel data (especially SOEP data) - and to discuss theoretical, conceptual and empirical issues with senior researchers. We encourage interested young scholars to submit abstracts.

If you would like to attend the symposium, please submit an abstract of your topic (350 words, in English) together with complete contact information before November 15, 2011. We will inform you whether your proposal has been accepted before December 15, 2011. The deadline for submission of the full paper (3.000 words) will be February 15, 2012.

All accepted papers will be made accessible to commentators and participants one month prior to the symposium. During the symposium each presenter will have about 20 minutes for presentation, 10 minutes comments by a senior researcher, and 10 minutes plenary discussion. The official language of the symposium will be English.

Catering as well as accommodation for non-locals will be provided. The conference fee is € 25.

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Location
Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg Delmenhorst/ Germany
Contact(s)
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Anne-Luise Baumann
Tel.: +49 (0) 421-218 66354
Fax: +49 (0) 421-218 66353
Email: abaumann@bigsss-bremen.de

Maike Schulz
Tel.: +49 (0) 421-218 66417
Fax: +49 (0) 421-218 66353
Email: mschulz@bigsss-bremen.de

BIGSSS
PO Box 33 04 40
28334 Bremen
28 March 2012

Workshop Writing Workshop for Academics

The idea of the workshop is to provide a forum where the communication of the students' research results is the focus of conversation. As doctoral students it is all too easy to become lost in the details of their research and lose sight of the fact that at the end, they need to write papers that get published. The goal of the writing workshop is to talk about the writing process – ranging from the actual writing of the paper, through the reviewing process, and what to look for in page proofs.

Speaker
  • Adam Mark Lederer, DIW Berlin
Time
14:00-15:00
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
22 March 2012

SOEP Brown Bag Seminar SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Social Change and Family Formation: The German Reunification

This project uses the German reunification to study how social change impacts two aspects of women's family formation: standardization - the degree to which women's family formation is similar, and pluralization - the development of new family formation patterns. In view of the Second Demographic Transition (SDT), institutional, economic, and ideational explanations for family behavior are discussed. The study proposes a new sequence analytical approach to calculate within and between group differences in family formation trajectories. Findings from the German Life History Study (GLHS) show a rapid de-standardization of family formation among East German women after the reunification. With the breakdown of the communist regime, East German women shifted away from a traditional early marriage pattern to alternative family forms. In contrast, West German women's family formation is more standardized after the reunification than before. They polarize into either a traditional or a delayed family formation pattern. As a result, East and West German women's family formation is just as different in the decades following the reunification as it was in divided Germany. The findings support that de-standardization and pluralization of family formation are transitional features of the SDT with a re-standardization of new family forms, once societies have passed through the SDT.

Speaker
  • Anette Fasang (HU Berlin)
Time
13:30 - 14:30
Location
DIW Berlin (Ferdinand-Friedensburg-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 308
22 March 2012

Workshop International Energy Resource Markets under Climate Constraints
RESOURCES, 2012-2015

The workshop is the kick-off event of the project "International energy markets under climate constraints - Strategic behavior and carbon leakage in coal, oil and natural gas markets" (RESOURCES, 2012-2015) which is funded by the Germany Ministry of Education and Research in the research program "Economics of Climate Change". The RESOURCES project is jointly carried out by the University of Potsdam (Prof. Dr. Anne Neumann) and the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin).

The issues at heart of this project are climate policies and their effect on supply and demand in energy resource markets. We focus on the resources coal, oil, and natural gas. A pre-requisite for an economic analysis of the interplay between the resource markets and climate policy is an updated and sound assessment of the long-term fossil resources base and long term extraction costs.

The workshop shall bring together experts from economics, geology and engineering to discuss the data situation and methodologies of assessment. Dr. Roberto F. Aguilera from Curtin University of Technology in Perth (Australia) will give a keynote presentation on "The Availability of Global Fossil Energy - Methods for Reserve, Resources and Long-Term Cost Estimations".

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Speaker
  • Keynote Speaker: Dr. Roberto F. Aguilera (Curtin Business School Perth, Australia)
Time
10:00 - 17:30
Location
DIW Berlin (Schumpeter Saal) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 337
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external
More Information: http://www.uni-potsdam.de/wipo/research/resources.html
21 March 2012

Berlin Lunchtime Meeting Bildungssystem in Deutschland: Die langfristigen Effekte der Schulwahl auf Bildungsabschlüsse und auf Löhne

Vortrag: Prof. Christian Dustmann, PhD. | University College London
Kommentar: Martin Spiewak | DIE ZEIT
Moderation: Prof. Dr. C. Katharina Spieß | DIW Berlin 

In Zeiten zunehmender sozialer Ungleichheit in Deutschland wird der frühen Selektion der Schulkinder im Alter von 10 Jahren durch das dreigliedrige Schulsystem immer mehr der Vorwurf gemacht, sie trage zur Zementierung von Ungleichheit bei. Viele Statistiken verweisen auf den Zusammenhang von elterlicher Bildung und Schulwahl im Alter von 10 Jahren, einem Alter, in dem die Kinder noch keine eigenständigen Lebens- und Bildungsentscheidungen getroffen haben können. Eine neue Studie der Forscher Christian Dustmann und Uta Schoenberg vom University College London sowie Patrick Puhani von der Leibniz Universität Hannover zeigt nun, dass die Schulwahl im Alter von 10 Jahren keine langfristigen Effekte auf Schulabschlüsse und Löhne hat, weil das deutsche Schulsystem flexibel genug ist, um frühe Fehlentscheidungen zu späteren Zeitpunkten zu korrigieren.

Prof. Christian Dustmann, PhD. | Professor an der Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften am University College London und Leiter des Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM). 1992 Promotion in Wirtschaftswissenschaften am European University Institute mit Habilitation an der Universität Bielefeld 1997. Dustmann ist Mitherausgeber der Zeitschriften Journal of Population Economics und Economic Journal. Research Fellow am Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London und am Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). Zudem ist er wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) und am Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London. Zu seinen Hauptforschungsinteressen gehören Zusammenhänge zwischen Demographie und Wirtschaft und Arbeitsmarkttheorien. In diesen Forschungsbereichen hat er bereits zahlreiche Werke veröffentlicht.

Martin Spiewak | Redakteur Wissen, DIE ZEIT. Nach dem Abitur leistete er seinen Zivildienst im Altersheim, studierte Geschichte und Spanisch in Hamburg und Madrid und Journalismus in München. Bevor er zum "Deutschen Allgemeinen Sonntagsblatt" ging, reiste er ein Jahr durch Mexiko und Kolumbien und arbeitete mit Straßenkindern. 1999 kam er zu der ZEIT ins Wissen. Bildung ist sein großes Thema. 2007 verbrachte er mehrere Monate an der Harvard University, um über Integration zu arbeiten.

Prof. Dr. C. Katharina Spieß | Leiterin der Abteilung Bildungspolitik am DIW Berlin. Ihr Forschungs- und Publikationsschwerpunkt liegt im Bereich der Frühkindlichen Bildung.

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Time
12:00 - 13:00
Location
DIW Berlin (Schumpeter Saal) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 569
09 March 2012

Applied Micro Seminar Business Taxes and the Electoral Cycle

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Speaker
  • Prof. Dr. Nadine Riedel
Time
13:15-14:45
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 165
07 March 2012

SOEP Brown Bag Seminar SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
How Important is the Family? Evidence from Sibling Correlations in the US, Germany and Denmark

This paper is the first to analyze intergenerational economic mobility based on sibling correlations in permanent economic outcomes in Germany and to provide a cross-country comparison of Germany, Denmark, and the US. The main findings are as follows: the importance of family and community background in Germany is higher than in Denmark and comparable to that in the US. This holds true for brothers and sisters. In Denmark 20 percent of the inequality in permanent earnings can be attributed to family and community factors shared by brothers while the corresponding estimates are 43 percent in Germany and 45 percent in the US. For sisters the estimates are 19 percent for Denmark, 39 percent for Germany and 29 percent for the US. This ranking is shown to be robust against alternative approaches.

Speaker
  • Dr. Daniel D. Schnitzlein, DIW Berlin
Time
12:30 - 13:30
Location
DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 308
29 February 2012

Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions Risks and Returns to Educational Fields - A financial asset approach to vocational and academic education

Applying a financial assets approach, we investigate the risks and returns to investments into different types of human capital. Even so the returns from investing in human capital have expensively been studied, little is known about the properties of the return to different types of human capital. Using information from the German Micro Census, we estimate the risk and returns to around 70 fields of study and differentiate between vocational and academic education. We find that there is a general trade-off between returns and earnings risk and human capital investments. Furthermore, we rank fields of education by their returns per unit of risk and find that academic education is not always superior to vocational education.

Speaker
  • Johanna Storck, DIW Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 308
27 to 28 February 2012

Workshop SOEPcampus@DIW Berlin 2012
Workshop zur Einführung in die Nutzung von SOEP-Daten

This workshop will be held in German only.

Please refer to the German site for more information.

Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 283
17 February 2012

Applied Micro Seminar Heterogeneity, Demand for Insurance and Adverse Selection

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Speaker
  • Johannes Spinnewijn, LSE
Time
13:15-14:45
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 210
15 February 2012

Seminar Misery as a stepping stone: How and why armed conflicts and natural disasters accelerate diplomats' careers
Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

Abstract: This paper formally derives and tests hypotheses on how exogenous events impact the career advancement of British diplomats. On the basis of a novel panel dataset spanning 40 years (1966-2005) of 342 British diplomats' career progression, it tests the prediction that the occurrence of major natural disasters and incidents of unanticipated armed conflict outbreak in diplomats' host countries should causally enhance their subsequent promotion chances. The results are generally affirmative, in particular for promotions to higher rank levels. The paper goes on to differentiate between two mechanisms that could drive the positive link: 1) crises may 'reveal' the so far unknown ability of affected diplomats and, if diplomats are on average sufficiently able, the positive empirical relationship between crises and promotion obtains (the talent revelation mechanism); 2) crises may provide 'training' so that when dealing with disasters or conflicts diplomats gain experience that makes them promotable in the future (the experience mechanism). When testing competing predictions derived from formalising these two mechanisms, the evidence from natural disasters clearly suggests that the experience effect drives the positive link. The results from analyzing armed conflict outbreak point in the same direction but they are not as unambiguous.

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Speaker
  • Klaus Brösamle (Hertie School)
Time
6.30 - 8.00 pm
Location
Humboldt Universität Berlin Raum 21b Spandauer Str. 1 10178 Berlin
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at DIW Berlin
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15 February 2012

Berlin Lunchtime Meeting German Economic Performance
Key findings of the OECD Economic Survey Germany 2012

Unfortunately, this event is already at capacity. No further registrations will be accepted. 

DIW Berlin together with its partners is pleased to invite to a special extended session of Berlin Lunchtime Meeting.

Chair: Heino von Meyer, Head, OECD Berlin Centre

10.00What are the main challenges for Germany?
Andreas Wörgötter, Head of Division, Economics Department, OECD
10.10The labour market miracle - will it last?
Felix Hüfner, Head of Germany Desk, Economics Department, OECD
Discussant Michael C. Burda, Professor of Macroeconomics, Humboldt-University
10:45Discussion
11:15Break
11.30Green Growth - does ambition pay?
Caroline Klein, Economist, Germany Desk, Economics Department, OECD
Discussant Karsten Neuhoff, Research Director DIW Berlin and Climate Policy Initiative
12:00Discussion

The OECD Economic Survey of Germany 2012 reviews the major progress that has been made, notably on the labour market, and which paid off in the recent recession. It also outlines where more needs to be done to strengthen the growth potential, not least in view of rapid population ageing. Policy should focus on raising labour input and productivity growth through structural reforms. Implementing cost-effective climate change mitigation policies and fostering eco innovation would strengthen new drivers of growth.

Registration is required. Please send an email to: . We look forward to your participation. 
Unfortunately, this event is already at capacity. No further registrations will be accepted.

Time
10:00 - 12:30 Uhr
Location
DIW Berlin (Schumpeter Saal) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 569
10 February 2012

Applied Micro Seminar Crowded in or out? The effect of past giving on donations to charitable causes

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Speaker
  • Sarah Smith, University of Bristol
Time
13:15-14:45
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 210
10 February 2012

Workshop Berlin Behavioral Economics Workshop

The Berlin Behavioral Economics Workshop is a half-year joint event between DIW, ESMT, WZB, and TU Berlin with the aim of fostering the exchange between active researchers in the areas of behavioral and experimental economics. The 2012 workshop is jointly organized by Paul Heidhues (ESMT), Frank Heinemann (TU), Dorothea Kübler (WZB), Georg Weizsäcker (DIW and UCL) and Radosveta Ivanova-Stenzel (TU).

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Time
10:30-18:00
Location
DIW Berlin (Schumpeter Saal) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 247
08 February 2012

Seminar Consumer demand in Mexico: the interaction with labour supply and implications for VAT policy
Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

Abstract: When prices change, consumers can respond by changing their spending patterns. In this paper, we estimate and utilise a consumer demand model of the Quadratic Almost Ideal (QUAIDS) form to analyse consumer demand in Mexico, and to explore some implications for indirect tax policy. The model covers virtually all categories of spending and is estimated using household expenditure and demographic data from the 2008 Encuesta Nacional de Ingresos y Gastos de los Hogares (ENIGH), and consumer price information from city-region price indices constructed by the Banco de Mexico. Estimated price elasticities and income elasticities are of plausible magnitude and sign. The demand model is also used to simulate the effects on welfare, spending patterns, and revenues of initial proposals for reform and the approved changes to indirect taxes that took place in Mexico in 2010, and to analyse moves towards a uniform VAT. Accounting for behavioral change is seen to have a notable effect on estimates of revenues but little impact on the size or distribution of welfare effects for households. These findings rely on the the assumptions underlying QUAIDS, notably, the separability of consumption and leisure, holding. A simple test of separability between goods demand and leisure is rejected, and the implications for which goods should be taxed more than average and less than average are investigated, although the actual rates and potential welfare gains cannot be quantified.

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Speaker
  • David Phillips (IFS London)
Time
6.30 - 8.00 pm
Location
DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 158
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06 to 07 February 2012

Workshop Final EUSECON Workshop
European Security Economics: Lessons Learnt and the Way Forward

The EUSECON project will hold its Final Workshop on the Economics of Security on 6 - 7 February 2012 in Brussels. The Workshop will be co-organised and hosted by the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS).

What are the driving forces behind terrorist activities and organised crime? How does insecurity impact individuals and the private sector and how do they respond to it? What is the role of European policy in dealing with these threats? What new forms of insecurity, such as maritime piracy, have emerged recently? These and other questions have been the focus of the four-year research project EUSECON – A New Agenda for European Security Economics. Funded by the European Commission and coordinated by Tilman Brück at DIW Berlin – German Institute for Economic Research, the project analyses economic causes, forms and effects of the human drivers of insecurity as well as security measures.

EUSECON has convened leading security economists and social scientists from across Europe. The research carried out in the project has already found its way to publication in numerous peer-reviewed journals including Science, European Journal of Political Economy, Defence and Peace Economics, Journal of Conflict Resolution and in a series of policy briefs published online. Click here for more information about the research and publications on security economics.

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Location
Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) Brussels
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 277
03 February 2012

Applied Micro Seminar Do Countries Compensate Firms for International Wage Differentials?

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Speaker
  • Johannes Rincke, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Time
13:15-14:45
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 165
01 February 2012

Seminar The Dynamics of Earnings in Germany: Evidence from Social Security Records
Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

Abstract: We examine patterns of earnings volatility for male employees who are subject to statutory social security contributions in West Germany over the period 1986 - 2005. For this purpose, we analyse individual records covering highly reliable earnings biographies provided by the German Social Security Administration. We decompose earnings into permanent and transitory components and estimate parameters of the underlying variance-covariance structure of the earnings components model.

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Speaker
  • Holger Lüthen, DIW Berlin
Time
6.30 - 8.00 pm
Location
Berliner Büro des RWI Hessische Straße 10 10115 Berlin
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at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 158
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26 January 2012

Berlin Lunchtime Meeting Golden Growth: Restoring the Lustre of the European Economic Model

Speakers: 
Indermit Gill,  Chief Economist of the Europe and Central Asia Region of the World Bank, and
Martin Raiser,  World Bank's Country Director for Turkey

Chair:
Dr. Ferdinand Fichtner, Head of the Department Forecasting and Economic Policy, DIW Berlin

The report documents the impressive achievements of the European growth model over the last 50 years. Accounting for the stresses it is experiencing and assessing the longer-term challenges that Europe will face, the report then evaluates the six principal components of the model: Trade, Finance, Enterprise, Innovation, Labor, and Government. It finds that the European growth model has been a powerful engine for economic convergence, helping developing countries in Europe catch up to their richer neighbors and become high-income economies. But recent developments inside and outside of Europe necessitate change. The report proposes the adjustments needed to make trade and finance work even better, to encourage enterprise and innovation in parts of Europe which have begun to lag, and address shortcomings in the functioning of labor markets and governments. The changes proposed would restart the European convergence machine, make Europe's enterprises competitive, and help Europeans afford the highest standards of living in the world.

Registration is required. Please send an email to:

We look forward to your participation.  

Time
12:00 - 13:00 Uhr
Location
DIW Berlin (Schumpeter Saal) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 569
25 January 2012

Seminar Immigration and structural change: Evidence from Post-war Germany
Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

Abstract: Does immigration accelerate sectoral change from low- to high-productivity sectors? This paper uses the mass displacement of ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe to West Germany after World War II as a natural experiment to study this question. A simple two-sector model of the economy, in which moving costs prevent the marginal product of labor to be equalized across sectors, predicts that immigration boosts output per worker by expanding the high-productivity sector, but decreases output per worker within a sector. Using German district-level data from before and after the war, we find strong empirical support for these predictions.

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Speaker
  • Sebastian Braun (IFW Kiel)
Time
6.30 - 8.00 pm
Location
Humboldt Universität Berlin Raum 21b Spandauer Str. 1 10178 Berlin
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at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 158
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20 January 2012

Applied Micro Seminar Do Parents Choose the School for their Children Under the Boston Mechanism? Evidence from Barcelona

Sorry, this seminar is cancelled!

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Speaker
  • Maia Güell, University of Edinburgh
Time
13:15-14:45
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 210
18 January 2012

Seminar Do parties matter? Estimating the effect of political representation in multi-party systems
Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

Abstract: This paper estimates the causal effect of political representation in local governments on tax policy in municipalities under a proportional election system. The main challenge in estimating the causal effect of parties on policy is to isolate the effect of representation from underlying voter preferences and the selection effect of parties. We use an instrumental variable approach where close elections provide the exogenous variation in our measures of representation: seat shares and voting power. Using data from German municipalities our estimation results suggest that representation does matter. The effects are mostly small, but statistically significant. Somewhat surprisingly, the center-left party is found to lower the local taxes, whereas The Greens increase the property tax considerably. These effects remain robust to weighting voting power by the likelihood of coalitions and different definitions of close elections and the instrument.

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Speaker
  • Ronny Freier (DIW Berlin)
Time
6.30 - 8.00 pm
Location
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin Raum B002/3 Reichpietschufer 50 10785 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 158
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18 January 2012

Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions The Dynamics of Earnings in Germany: Evidence from Social Security Records

We examine patterns of earnings volatility for male employees who are subject to statutory social security contributions in West Germany over the period 1986 - 2005. For this purpose, we analyse individual records covering highly reliable earnings biographies provided by the German Social Security Administration. We decompose earnings into permanent and transitory components and estimate parameters of the underlying variance-covariance structure of the earnings components model. This provides insights into the mechanics of earnings dynamics of the German labour market. We find evidence for increasing overall volatility which is predominantly driven by the permanent earnings component and therefore indicates increasing earnings inequality.

Speaker
  • Holger Lüthen, DIW Berlin
Time
12:30-13:30
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 517
13 January 2012

Applied Micro Seminar On the Historical and Geographic Origins of the Sicilian Mafia

This research attempts to explain the large differences in the early diffusion of the mafia across different areas of Sicily. We advance the hypothesis that, after the demise of Sicilian feudalism, the lack of publicly provided property-right protection from widespread banditry favored the development of a florid market for private protection and the emergence of a cartel of protection providers: the mafia. This would especially be the case in those areas (prevalently concentrated in the Western part of the island) characterized by the production and commercialization of sulphur and citrus fruits, Sicily’s most valuable export goods whose international demand was soaring at the time. We test this hypothesis combining data on the early incidence of mafia across Sicilian municipalities and on the distribution of sulphur reserves, land suitability for the cultivation of citrus fruits, distance from the main commercial ports, and a variety of other geographical controls. Our empirical findings provide support for the proposed hypothesis documenting, in particular, a significant impact of sulphur extraction, terrain ruggedness, and distance from Palermo’s port on mafia’s early diffusion.

Speaker
  • Paolo Vanin, University of Bologna
Time
13:15-14:45
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
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11 January 2012

Seminar Rich Dad, Smart Dad: Decomposing the Intergenerational Transmission of Income
Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

Abstract: We construct a simple model, consistent with Becker and Tomes (1979), that decomposes the intergenerational income elasticity into the causal effect of financial resources, the mechanistic transmission of human capital, and the role that human capital plays in the determination of fathers' permanent incomes. We show how a particular set of instrumental variables could separately identify the money and human capital transmission effects. Using data from a thirtyfive percent sample of Swedish sons and their fathers, we show that only a minority of the intergenerational income elasticity can be plausibly attributed to the causal effect of fathers' financial resources.

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Speaker
  • Matthew Lindquist (Stockholm University)
Time
6.30 - 8.00 pm
Location
DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
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at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 158
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06 January 2012

Applied Micro Seminar Changing Identity: Retiring from Unemployment

Abstract: Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 1984-2009, we follow persons from their working life into their retirement years and find that, on average, employed people maintain their life satisfaction upon retirement, while long-term unemployed people report a substantial increase in their life satisfaction when they retire. These results are robust to controlling for changes in other life circumstances and suggest that retiring is associated with a switch in the relevant social norms that causes an increase in identity utility for the formerly unemployed. This is supportive of the idea that, by including identity in the utility function, results from the empirical life satisfaction literature can be reconciled with the economic theory of individual utility.

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Speaker
  • Prof. Dr. Ronnie Schöb, FU Berlin
Time
13:15-14:45
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 210
14 Dec 2011

Seminar Bombs, Brains, and Science: The Role of Human and Physical Capital for the Creation of Scientic Knowledge
Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

Abstract: This paper analyzes how human and physical capital affect the productivity of science departments. As inputs are often chosen on the basis of unobservable productivity factors and high quality scientists attract more funding for physical capital, I use two extensive shocks to identify the relative importance of human and physical capital. As a shock to physical capital I use department level destruction by Allied bombings during WWII. As human capital shock I use the dismissal of mostly Jewish scientists in Nazi Germany.

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Speaker
  • Fabian Waldinger (University of Warwick)
Time
6.30 - 8.00 pm
Location
DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
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at DIW Berlin
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14 Dec 2011

SOEP Brown Bag Seminar SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Is health a predictor of job loss and high status attainment? A gender sensitive approach to health selection on the labor market

Health effects on the labor market have most often been assessed using wage as the outcome variable. I estimate health effects on involuntary job loss and attainment of a high status position to see if health has an impact beyond wages. Using SOEP data and controlling for a wide range of human capital and non-labor-market constraints to capture indirect health selection I can show that there are indeed health effects on job loss and high status attainment. These effects differ by gender for high status attainment, but not for job loss. An explanation of increased returns to health in presence of discrimination is offered.
In the end problems regarding measurement of health and bias due to simultaneity are and possible are discussed.

Speaker
  • Hannes Neiss, DIW Berlin
Time
12:30 - 13:30
Location
DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
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at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 308
09 Dec 2011

Workshop Graduate Center Annual Workshop 2011

GC Workshop is an annual event of DIW to foster networking and academic exchange. Besides of current students of DIW Graduate Center, we also invite all GC Alumni to join, to present their current work or share some experiences or insights from their new jobs. Please find attached the program.

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Time
11:00-18:00
Location
DIW Berlin (Schumpeter Saal) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
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at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 403
07 Dec 2011

Seminar Estimating Dynamic Discrete Choice Models With Unobserved Heterogeneity: The Advantage of Bayesian Procedures
Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

Abstract: In this paper, we compare Bayesian estimation procedures with classical maximum likelihood estimation of dynamic discrete choice models. These models usually require a general specification of unobserved reference heterogeneity. We consider an application of a dynamic discrete choice model of female labor supply with three distinct states. We find that the Bayesian MCMC-estimator is about three times faster when considering a flexible specification of unobserved heterogeneity with multiple correlations. This allows us to apply non-parametric bootstrap methods to estimate the distribution of post-estimation outcomes within reasonable computation time.

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Speaker
  • Daniel Kemptner (DIW Berlin)
Time
6.30 - 8.00 pm
Location
Berliner Büro des RWI Hessische Straße 10 10115 Berlin
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at DIW Berlin
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, FU Berlin
02 to 03 Dec 2011

Workshop Macroeconometric Workshop 2011

The DIW Berlin organizes its annual workshop on macroeconometric
modelling. The workshop will be held at the German Institute for Economic Research, in the center of Berlin.The aim of the workshop is to bring together academic researchers and practitioners to promote and exchange ideas in the field of macroeconometric modelling.

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at DIW Berlin
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02 Dec 2011

Applied Micro Seminar Schumpeterian Growth for Micro Enterprises in Developing Countries

Schumpeterian Growth for Micro Enterprises in Developing Countries: Evidence from Phone Card Wholesalers in Mongolia
Abstract: Since Development economics was established as a field, economists have been interested in the factors that transform subsistence sector into capital one. Much of the current development literature on small and micro enterprises (SMEs) is focused on how subsistence entrepreneurs, or small enterprise owners, expand their businesses and which factors affect this transformation. This study examines the cost structure of SMEs and evaluates the impact of a cost-reducing technology on business expansion and customer welfare. Specifically, using data collected from a field survey, combined with data collected by server computers at a telecommunication company, I examine the entry behavior of prepaid phone card wholesalers into new markets in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, and estimate the cost function. I further evaluate the impact of a cost-reducing technology and calculate the benefit of this technology for SMEs. The result shows that cost distribution determines SME entry behavior, and the introduction of a cost-reducing technology led to reduced costs for wholesalers and permitted them to expand their business and make product available in an expanded market. The wholesalers’ benefit (due to reduced travel costs) is estimated to be 16% of their monthly sales. This implies that technology improvement can transform subsistence entrepreneurs into larger businesses in a non-agricultural sector in developing countries. Additionally, this study, one of only a few that connect entrepreneurship with development, shows microeconomic evidence of Schumpeterian growth.

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Speaker
  • Mongoljin Batsaikhan, Brown University
Time
13:15-14:45
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
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at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 210
30 Nov 2011

Seminar Routine task intensity and employment changes in regional labor markets
Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

Abstract: Building upon concepts of the task and trade-in-tasks literature, we analyze the relationship between the initial routine task intensity of local labor markets and (i) subsequent regional occupational employment trends, (ii) regional employment in temporary help services (THS) and (iii) regional wage inequality. We argue that due to the specific nature of routine tasks, i.e. by being codifiable, easy to automate and easy to monitor, those activities are more prone to replacement by computer capital and thus (i) the displacement of routine task intensive jobs leads to a reallocation of tasks towards complementary non-routine tasks (either abstract or nonroutine manual). Moreover, those tasks are also more likely to being outsourced into THS employment (ii).

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Speaker
  • Hanna Wielandt (HU Berlin)
    Jan Peter aus dem Moore (HU Berlin)
    Charlotte Senftleben (HU Berlin))
Time
6.30 - 8.00 pm
Location
Humboldt Universität Berlin Raum 21b Spandauer Str. 1 10178 Berlin
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at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 158
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external
, FU Berlin
25 Nov 2011

Applied Micro Seminar Causal Effects of Paternity Leave on Children and Parents

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Speaker
  • Jon H. Fiva, Oslo Business School
Time
13:15-14:45
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
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at DIW Berlin
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23 Nov 2011

Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions When can we trust population thresholds in regression discontinuity designs

A recent literature uses variation just around legislative population thresholds to identify causal effects of institutional changes. We review the use of regression discontinuity designs using such thresholds. Our concern is threefold: (1) simultaneous exogenous (co-)treatment, (2) simultaneous endogenous choices and (3) manipulation and precise control over population measures. Revisiting the study by Egger and Koethenbuerger (2010), who analyse the relationship between council size and government spending, we present new evidence that these concerns matter for causal analysis. Our results suggest that empirical designs using population thresholds should be used with utmost care and confidence in the precise institutional setting.

Speaker
  • Ronny Freier, Ph.D., DIW Berlin
  • Florian Ade
Time
12:30 - 13:30
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
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at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 517
23 Nov 2011

Seminar Equivalence scales and fixed costs of consumption
Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

Abstract: Different family types may have a fixed flow of consumption costs, related to subsistence needs. We use a survey method in order to identify and estimate such a fixed component of spending for different families. Our method involves making direct questions about the linkup between aggregate disposable family income and well-being for different family types. Conducting our survey in six countries, Germany, France, Cyprus, China, India and Botswana, we provide evidence that fixed costs of consumption are embedded in welfare evaluations of respondents.

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Speaker
  • Carsten Schröder (Uni Kiel)
Time
6.30 - 8.00 pm
Location
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin Raum B002/3 Reichpietschufer 50 10785 Berlin
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at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 158
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external
, FU Berlin
18 Nov 2011

Applied Micro Seminar The role of parental income over the life cycle: a comparison of Sweden and the UK

Previous research on intergenerational income mobility has shown stronger persistence between parental and offspring’s income in the UK than in Sweden. We use similar data sets for the two countries to explore whether these cross-national differences show up already early in life in indicators such as birth weight, grades at the end of compulsory school at age 16, height during adolescence, and final educational attainment. We do indeed find significant country differences in the association between parental income and these outcomes, and the associations are stronger in the UK than in Sweden. We also investigate whether these differentials are large enough to account for a substantial part of the difference in intergenerational persistence estimates. We then conclude that the country differences in the intergenerational associations in birth weight and height are not strong enough to account for hardly any fraction of the UK-Sweden difference in intergenerational income mobility. On the other hand, for grades and final education our results suggest that the country differences can account for a substantial part of the difference in income persistence.

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Speaker
  • Anders Björklund, SOFI, Stockholm University
Time
13:15-14:45
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
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at DIW Berlin
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16 Nov 2011

Seminar Can employment programs reduce poverty and social instability? Experimental evidence from a Ugandan aid program
Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

Abstract: Youth unemployment is widely considered a threat to development and to security. To reduce poverty and social instability in developing countries, aid programs commonly provide youth with inputs to boost self-employment or train for a job. Such programs are rooted in two theoretical premises, one economic and one socio-political. The first is that the poor have high potential returns to investments but are constrained from reaching those returns unaided. The second belief is that increased income and employment will reduce youth alienation, aggression, and the potential for political violence. We look for evidence of these claims using an experimental study of Uganda's largest employment program.

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Speaker
  • Nathan Fiala (DIW Berlin)
Time
6.30 - 8.00 pm
Location
Berliner Büro des RWI Hessische Straße 10 10115 Berlin
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at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 158
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, FU Berlin
14 Nov 2011

Development and Security Seminar Credit access and child work in Uganda

Speaker
  • Tony Muhumuza, DIW Berlin
Time
11.30 to 12.30
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
11 Nov 2011

Applied Micro Seminar Female Labor Supply and Childcare: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Family Policy in Germany

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Speaker
  • Christina Gathmann, Universität Mannheim
Time
13:15-14:45
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
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at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 210
10 to 11 Nov 2011

Graduate Center Masterclasses Heterogeneity and Macroeconomics

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Speaker
  • Jochen Mankart, Universität St. Gallen
Time
14:00-18:30 (10.11.) 09:00-12:30 (11.11.)
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 210
09 Nov 2011

Seminar Bye Bye, G.I. - The Impact of the U.S. Military Drawdown on Local German Labor Markets
Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

Abstract: What is the impact of a local negative demand shock on local labor markets? We exploit the unique natural experiment provided by the drawdown of U.S. Military Forces in West Germany after the end of the Cold War to investigate this question. We find persistent negative effects of the reduction in the U.S. Forces on private sector employment growth, with considerable heterogeneity by age and education groups, occupations and sectors. In addition, the U.S. Forces reduction resulted in a drop in the net balance of in-migration versus out-migration in affected regions. Consistent with this finding, wages and unemployment were much less affected.

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Speaker
  • Jan Peter aus dem Moore (HU Berlin)
    Alexandra Spitz-Oener (HU Berlin, IAB, CASE, IZA)
Time
6.30 - 8.00 pm
Location
DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
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at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 158
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, FU Berlin
09 Nov 2011

Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions Estimating Heterogeneous Returns to Education in Germany via Conditional Second Moments

In this paper I explore the relationship between education and log wages using an identification approach based on conditional second moments. Drawing upon data from the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP) I show that seemingly conflicting IV studies can be reconciled accounting for their LATE interpretation. I confirm existing empirical evidence by finding heterogeneous returns to education for graduates from different school tracks. The wage premium of one additional year of education is 3% for graduates from the basic school track. For graduates from a higher school track the return is around 9%. Various robustness checks support my results.

Speaker
  • Nils Saniter, DIW Berlin
Time
12:30 - 13:30
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 517
04 Nov 2011

Applied Micro Seminar The Euro Area Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS)

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Speaker
  • Jirka Slacalek/Carlos Sánchez Muñoz, European Central Bank
Time
13:15-14:45
Location
DIW Berlin (Schumpeter Saal) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
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at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 210
04 Nov 2011

Graduate Center Masterclasses Financial and Labor Market Frictions in an Open Economy

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Speaker
  • Mathias Trabandt, European Central Bank
Time
10:00-18:00
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
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at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 210
02 Nov 2011

Seminar The Economic Impact of Social Ties: Evidence from German Reunification
Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

Abstract: We use the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 to show that personal relationships which individuals maintain for non-economic reasons can be an important determinant of regional economic growth. We show that West German households who have social ties to East Germany in 1989 experience a persistent rise in their personal incomes after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Moreover, the presence of these households significantly affects economic performance at the regional level: it increases the returns to entrepreneurial activity, the share of households who become entrepreneurs, and the likelihood that firms based within a given West German region invest in East Germany.

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Speaker
  • Konrad B. Burchardi (IIES Stockholm),
    joint with Tarek Alexander Hassan
Time
6.30 - 8.00 pm
Location
Humboldt Universität Berlin Raum 21b Spandauer Str. 1 10178 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 158
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external
, FU Berlin
31 October 2011

31 October 2011 to 1 November 2011 Workshop TAMNEAC Kick-off Workshop

The TAMNEAC consortium will hold its first meeting on 31 October - 1 November 2011 at DIW Berlin. The Kick-Off Workshop will bring together the project team, introducing the research agenda and providing opportunities to exploit synergies between different research initiatives. The meeting is followed by initial skills training for TAMNEAC fellows on 2-3 November at DIW Berlin.

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Location
DIW Berlin (Schumpeter Saal) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
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at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 277
28 October 2011

Applied Micro Seminar Wealth Shocks, Unemployment Shocks and Consumption in the wake of the Great Recession

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Speaker
  • Dimitris Georgarakos, Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main
Time
13:15-14:45
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
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at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 210
26 October 2011

Seminar The incidence of tax structure on wages
Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

Abstract: The incidence of payroll and income tax and progressivity on wages is a recurring topic of debate in economic research and policy debate alike. Building on a detailed tax and transfer model (STSM) for Germany based on the GSOEP 2002 through 2008 I simulate empirical payroll, income and overall tax burden rates to test the competing predictions of non-competitive and competitive labor market models. Following the strategy outlined by Gruber & Saez (2002) potentially endogenous tax rates are instrumented by aging all income-relevant variables a year ahead and apply the tax code of that year.

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Speaker
  • Pia Rattenhuber (DIW Berlin)
Time
6.30 - 8.00 pm
Location
Berliner Büro des RWI Hessische Straße 10 10115 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 158
Contact(s)
external
, FU Berlin
21 October 2011

Applied Micro Seminar Deterring or Displacing Electoral Irregularities?

Deterring or Displacing Electoral Irregularities? Spillover Effects of Observers in a Randomized Field Experiment in Ghana

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Speaker
  • Matthias Schündeln, Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main
Time
13:15-14:45
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 210
20 October 2011

Applied Micro Seminar Taxation and Labor Supply of Married Females: A Cross-Country Analysis

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Speaker
  • Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main
Time
13:15-14:45
Location
DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 210
19 October 2011

SOEP Brown Bag Seminar SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Parenthood, maternal labour market return, and gender inequality in housework: A comparison of different parental leave contexts

Pia Schober (University of Cambridge)

This paper investigates the effect of the timing and extent of mothers' labour market return after a birth on couples' division of housework in Britain and West-Germany. This improves our understanding of how parenthood gives rise to a trend towards a more traditional division of housework in couples. By comparing Britain and West-Germany with their different parental leave policies and observing several policy reforms in each country over time, this study provides new evidence how contextual variations in parental leave policies may impact on the division of housework in couples.

Methodologically, this research extends the literature by applying multilevel multiprocess models to reduce the risk of unobserved heterogeneity biasing estimates of interrelated decisions after repeated life-course events. I estimate simultaneously the timing and extent of mothers' labour market return, the likelihood of having another child, and the time women and men in couples allocate to housework in the years following a first or second birth. The empirical analysis is based on data from the British Household Panel Survey (1991-2008) and the German Socio-Economic Panel (1985-2009).

The results suggest that returning to the labour market full-time work is more effective than short leave durations in reducing the trend towards a more traditional division of housework in couples. Unobserved characteristics, such as work and family orientations, account for most of the association of housework time with the length of mothers' employment interruption and significantly weaken the association with women's full-time labour market return, especially in Britain. Parental leave policy reforms in both countries are associated with the division of housework only through their impact on the extent and timing of women's return to work. In line with theory, I find some evidence of a stronger association of women's quick and full-time labour market return with lower housework time for women in Britain than in West-Germany.

Time
12:30 - 13:30
Location
DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 308
19 October 2011

Graduate Center Masterclasses Consumption: Theory and Empirics

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Speaker
  • Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main
Time
09:30-18:00
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 210
19 October 2011

Event Gender and Leader Stereotypes: How they limit Women’s Opportunities and constrain their Behavior in Leader Roles

In Germany and the United States as well as many other nations, women have gained access to leadership roles and are often praised for their leadership skills. In fact, women, somewhat more than men, manifest leadership styles associated with effective performance as a leader. Yet, women have remained underrepresented in leadership roles, especially at higher levels in organizations and governments. Because the reasons for this phenomenon are complex, women's paths to leadership can be seen as forming a labyrinth that contains varied impediments. These impediments include stereotypes that leadership especially requires the culturally masculine qualities of assertiveness and dominance. This image makes it more difficult for women than men to show that they are qualified to lead and produces conflicting demands that women leaders have to negotiate.

Speaker
  • Prof. Alice Eagly, Ph.D.
    Northwestern University
Time
15:00 - 16:30
Location
DIW Berlin (Schumpeter Saal) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
19 October 2011

Seminar Audit Risk and Rent Extraction: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Brazil
Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

Short Biography: Stephan Litschig is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. He received his Ph.D. in 2008 at Columbia University. His research interests are Development Economics, Public Economics, Political Economy, and Microeconometrics.

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Speaker
  • Stephan Litschig (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
Time
6.30 - 8.00 pm
Location
DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
external
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, FU Berlin
17 October 2011

Applied Micro Seminar Experimental and quasi-experimental methods in development economics

Speaker
  • Matthias Schündeln, Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main
Time
09:30-18:00
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 210
12 October 2011

Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions Stop Smoking, Your Paycheck Will Thank You! Wage Effects from Smoking Cessation

Silke Anger (DIW Berlin / SOEP) 

A growing body of literature has investigated the wage penalty attached to smoking. Little research, in contrast, has been done on the wage effects of smoking cessation. Using survey panel data from Germany, we study the relative earnings of smokers and former smokers over an extended period of time. We control for selection into smoking by imposing smoking initiation as the common initial condition and exclusively focusing on ever smokers, i.e. smokers and former smokers. Although we do not find evidence for an average wage premium of smoking cessation, our estimates point to heterogeneous causal effects. Individuals who did not smoke very long or who quit many years ago do appear to benefit in their earnings from quitting smoking. The prospect of a higher paycheck for short-time smokers and long-term quitters provides an additional incentive to smokers to quit smoking, an argument health authorities may want to utilize in public smoking cessation campaigns.

Speaker
  • Dr. Silke Anger, DIW Berlin
Time
12:30 - 13:30
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 517
05 October 2011

SOEP Brown Bag Seminar SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Does job loss make you smoke and gain weight?

Jan Marcus (DIW Berlin / SOEP) 

This paper estimates the effect of involuntary job loss on smoking behavior and body weight. For this purpose, I apply a regression-adjusted semiparametric difference-in-difference matching strategy. This strategy is robust against selection on observables and against selection on unobservables with time invariant effects. I find smoker and nonsmoker reacting to job loss with changing health behaviors. Former nonsmoker are more likely to start smoking, while smoker tend to increase body weight but do not intensify smoking. These findings are robust over various matching specifications and different choices of the conditioning variables. Further analyses indicate treatment effect heterogeneity, with particular strong effects for young individuals, migrants and the low educated.

Time
12:30 - 13:30
Location
DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 308
02 to 07 October 2011

Workshop 5th International Research Workshop – “Methods for Ph.D.”

For the fifth time Ph.D. students in the field of Social Sciences and Economics have the opportunity to broaden their knowledge and experience in research on empirical data, including SOEP. The workshop language will be English and/or German.
Interested parties from all countries are invited. The workshop is especially for those who need training in the process of choosing a topic, grounding the research idea in theory, as well as in gathering and analyzing data and presenting results in scientific contexts.

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28 to 29 Sept 2011

Seminar Doctoral Research Seminar in Growth and Development 2011

The seminar aims to establish an informal network of young scholars in the field of development economics. Doctoral students from DIW Berlin/Humboldt University Berlin, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Frankfurt University, Heidelberg University, Georg-August-Göttingen University, Mannheim University and other universities will participate in the seminar this year.

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12 Sept 2011

Berlin Lunchtime Meeting The Gender Pay Gap in the US: Going, Going, ..., But Not Gone

Chair: Elke Holst
Introduction: Anne Busch

Professor Blau will describe trends in the gender pay gap in the United States in an international perspective, particularly the important gains in recent decades. She will consider fundamental explanations for the gender pay gap and use these explanations to understand the trends. Among the questions that she will consider are: Has discrimination against women in the US and other advanced countries declined? Does it still exist? What role do improvements in women's qualifications play in the reduction in the gender pay gap? Are there broad market-wide trends that help to explain the decrease? In particular, have trends in the demand for labor favored women relative to men? Why is the gender pay gap in the United States larger than in many other economically advanced countries? What role do government policies play in reducing the gender pay gap?

Prof. Francine D. Blau, Frances Perkins Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Professor of Economics at Cornell University/USA, also DIW Research Professor, Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Research Fellow of IZA and CESIfo in Germany. She has written widely on gender issues, wage inequality, immigration, and international comparisons of labor market outcomes. In 2010 in Germany, the IZA Prize for outstanding academic achievement in the field of labor economics; she was the first woman to receive this prestigious award. Professor Blau has served as President of the Society of Labor Economists and the Labor and Employment Relations Association (formerly the Industrial Relations Research Association), Vice President of the American Economic Association (AEA), President of the Midwest Economics Association, and Chair of the AEA Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession.

Anne Busch: DIW Berlin and Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.

PD Dr. Elke Holst: Research Director Gender Studies, DIW Berlin.

Registration is required. Please send an email to: .

We look forward to your participation.

Speaker
  • Prof. Francine D. Blau, Ph.D
Time
12.00 - 13.00 followed by a buffet lunch
Location
DIW Berlin (Schumpeter Saal) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 569
08 to 10 Sept 2011

Workshop SOEP/CNEF Data Users Workshop 2011

The purpose of the workshop is to introduce and familiarize new users with the file structure and potential of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and the Cross-National Equivalent Files (CNEF).

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Location
Cornell University Ithaca, NY USA
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at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 503
04 August 2011

Seminar The Gift of Time
Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

Abstract: How would people spend time if confronted by permanent declines in market work? We identify preferences off exogenous cuts in legislated standard hours that raised employers' overtime costs in Japan around 1990 and Korea in the early 2000s. Using time-diaries from before and after these shocks, we predict the likelihood that an individual would have been affected by the reform. 

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Speaker
  • Daniel Hamermesh (University of Texas at Austin and Maastricht University)
Time
2:15 p.m.
Location
Humboldt Universität Berlin Room 125 Spandauer Str. 1 10178 Berlin
Contact(s)
external
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, HU Berlin
27 July 2011

SOEP Brown Bag Seminar SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
The dynamics of single motherhood and work life histories of women in Britain and West Germany

Hannah Zagel (University of Edinburgh) 

The labour market (in)activity of women in single motherhood situations is a prominent issue across European countries. In order to understand women's employment patterns it has been suggested to focus on timing in the life course rather than on women's categorisation as either workers or mothers (e.g. Lewis 2006). This paper argues that, additionally, the temporal and institutional embeddedness of single motherhood has to be considered. Drawing on theories of stratification in the life course, a conceptual model is suggested, which is based on the temporal dimensions of timing and duration of single motherhood. In order to explore the relationships, individual work-family life sequences of women with single motherhood experience in Britain and West Germany are compared. Sequence analysis is applied to longitudinal survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and the British Household Panel Survey. Data from the time period between 1992 and 2009 are used. The theoretical model implies that, while the particular family situation still distinctly influences women's work lives, this interrelation cannot be understood without considering the temporal framework in which it unfolds. It is argued that the timing of single motherhood as well as its duration are associated with the opportunities for women to acquire resources that can be used in the labour market. Furthermore, the meaning of timing and duration for activity patterns appears to differ between Germany and Britain. Hence, in the search for policy solutions to address the needs of women in a single motherhood situation it may be instructive to regard the interplay between temporal and institutional factors.

Time
12:30 - 13:30
Location
DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 308
19 July 2011

Invited Lecture Labor and Love - Employment Effects on Divorce Risk in Eleven Countries

Introduction: Christian Schmitt
Moderation: Elke Holst

In this lecture, Lynn P. Cooke will discuss various aspects of her recent research on the instability in couple relationships in the post-war period. Some social scientists attribute this increasing likelihood of divorce and separation to the increase in partnered women's employment. Yet in post-industrial economies, institutional support for partnered women's employment varies considerably. In the harmonized analyses presented here, panel (East and West Germany, United Kingdom, USA), register (Finland, Norway, Sweden), and retrospective (Australia, Flanders, France, Italy, the Netherlands) data and discrete time event history analyses are used to compare the divorce risk associated with wives' and husbands' employment across country contexts. In countries that historically institutionalized a gendered division of labor, a wife's employment increases the risk of divorce, although effects now reach statistical significance only in Italy. In the United States, where market (in)equality dominates, wives' employment also significantly increases divorce risk despite its prevalence. Where institutions instead support greater gender equality in paid as well as unpaid work, couples with an employed wife are significantly less likely to divorce than couples where the wife remains out of the labor force. Thus institutional support for greater gender equality makes wives' employment a stabilizing force in modern couples.

Lynn Prince Cooke (DPhil, Nuffield College, Oxford University) is Professor of Sociology at the University of Surrey in Guildford, UK. From an interdisciplinary perspective and using a multimethod approach, her comparative research explores institutional effects on the division of labor in societies, and the subsequent impact of these divisions on life course outcomes. Her research has appeared in American Journal of Sociology, European Sociological Review, Journal of Social Policy, and Journal of Marriage and Family. She serves on the editorial boards of the first two journals and co-authored the JMF decade review article on "Families in International Perspective." Her monograph, Gender-Class Equality in Political Economies, was released 2011. During July 15-31, 2011. Lynn Prince Cooke will be staying at the DIW Berlin, Dept. Germany Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) and the Cross-Departmental Research Group Gender Studies at DIW Berlin as a guest researcher. Her research visit is supported by the DAAD Senior Academic visiting fellowship.

If you are interested to participate please respond by 15, 2011 to Christiane Nitsche:

Keynote Speaker
  • Lynn Prince Cooke, Professor of Sociology at the University of Surrey in Guildford, UK
Time
16:00
Location
DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 671
14 July 2011

Applied Micro Seminar Imitation: Theory and Experiments

This talk provides an overview over some recent developments in theory and experiments on imitation in strategic environments. A special focus is the relationship between imitation and maximization of relative payoffs.

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Speaker
  • Jörg Oechssler, University of Heidelberg
Time
13:15-14:45
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 210
13 July 2011

SOEP Brown Bag Seminar SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Statistical Matching of Administrative and Survey Data - An Application to Wealth Inequality Analysis

Anika Rasner & Markus M. Grabka (SOEP)
joint with Joachim R. Frick (SOEP & TU Berlin)

Using population representative survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and administrative pension records from the Statutory Pension Insurance, the authors compare four statistical matching and imputation techniques to complement survey information on net worth with social security wealth (SSW) information from the administrative records. The unique properties of the linked data allow for a straight control of the quality of matches under each technique. Based on various evaluation criteria, Mahalanobis distance matching performs best. Exploiting the advantages of the newly assembled data, the authors include SSW in a wealth inequality analysis. Despite its quantitative relevance, SSW has been thus far omitted from such analyses, because of the lack of adequate micro data. The inclusion of SSW doubles the level of net worth and decreases inequality by almost 25 percent. Moreover, the results reveal striking differences along occupational lines.
(Presentation in German)

Time
12:30 - 13:30
Location
DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 308
13 July 2011

Seminar Bargaining, Openness and the Labor Share
Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

Abstract: This paper investigates determinants of medium run movements of the labor share in developed countries. Using a panel with 13 countries and 27 industries covering the private sector, the paper focuses on changes within industries. Of interest is also the interaction between the impact of off shoring and other drivers of changes in the labor share.

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Keynote Speaker
  • Dorothee Schneider (HU Berlin)
Time
6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Location
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin Raum B002/3 Reichpietschufer 50 10785 Berlin
Contact(s)
external
, HU Berlin
, HU Berlin
06 July 2011

Seminar Peer Effects in the Workplace - An Empirical Investigation with German Linked Employer-Employee Data
Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

Abstract: We develop a theoretical framework in which productivity spillovers between workers lead to peer effects in wages. We test the key implications of this model using wage data from a large-scale linked employer-employee data set for one well-defined local labour market. Our preliminary results provide evidence for positive peer effects in wages. We explore the heterogeneity in peer effects with respect to gender, occupation, peer group size, and other characteristics.

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Keynote Speaker
  • Thomas Cornelissen (UCL) with
    Christian Dustmann (UCL) and Uta Schönberg (UCL)
Time
6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Location
DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
external
, HU Berlin
, HU Berlin
06 July 2011

SOEP Brown Bag Seminar SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Trick or treat? – Maternal job loss and children's non-cognitive skills

Frauke Peter (SOEP)

Research on maternal employment decision and its effect on children's abilities have so far produced mixed results. This indicates that the mere association of maternal employment and child outcomes might be spurious and depending on childcare settings and other aspects of mothers' selection into employment, which in turn might also affect child outcome measures. By propensity score matching we first define mother's probability of working and in a second step we analyze involuntary job loss and its influence on children's non-cognitive skills. Research on human capital formation distinguishes between cognitive and non-cognitive skills whereby noncognitive skills have received less attention in empirical work. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), we estimate maternal job loss and its effect for preschool children aged five/six and for adolescents aged seventeen. Our analyses so far show that children whose mothers experience an exogenous job loss are more likely to have socioemotional problems and are less likely to believe in self-determination in life.

Time
12:30 - 13:30
Location
DIW Berlin (Ferdinand-Friedensburg-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 308
04 to 08 July 2011

Graduate Center Masterclasses Operations Research Course

The course will take place on the week from July 4th to July 8th at DIW in the Eleanor Dulles room (5.2.010) and will be held by Prof. Steven Gabriel and Jeremy Eckhause from the University of Maryland.
Topics will include:

  • non-linear optimization
  • integer modeling
  • complementarity modeling
  • stochastic modeling
  • application of these methods to energy and transport markets using the software GAMS.

Speaker
  • Prof. Steven Gabriel and Jeremy Eckhause from the University of Maryland
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 206
30 June 2011

Applied Micro Seminar Why some companies are sold below their market value

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Speaker
  • Utz Weitzel, Radboud University Nijmegen
Time
13:15-14:45
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 210
29 June 2011

SOEP Brown Bag Seminar SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Spite and cognitive skills in preschoolers

Elisabeth Bügelmayer (SOEP and FU Berlin)
C. Katharina Spieß (SOEP and FU Berlin)

Although spiteful preferences play a crucial role in the development of human large scale cooperation, there is little evidence on spiteful behavior and its determinants in children. We investigate the relationship between children’s cognitive skills and spiteful behavior in a sample of 214 preschoolers aged 5-6 and their mothers. Other-regarding behavior of both mothers and children is elicited by four simple allocation decisions. A key advantage of our study is that it is carried out in a household context. Therefore, we have extensive information about the child’s and mother’s cognitive and noncognitive skills, health and household characteristics. We find that higher cognitive skills are associated with more spiteful behavior in children. This relationship is even more pronounced among boys and hence possibly reflecting differences in competitiveness. These results shed light on the determinants of the development of other-regarding preferences in humans.

Time
12:30 - 13:30
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 308
29 June 2011

Seminar Are Uzbeks Better Off? Economic Welfare and Ethnicity in Kyrgyzstan
Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

Abstract: In the light of violent clashes between Kyrgyz and ethnic Uzbeks in Kyrgyzstan in June 2010 we investigate the association between economic welfare and ethnicity in this country. We intend to answer two questions. First, are Uzbek households better off than Kyrgyz households, as is often claimed in the media and also by some academics? Second, what are the correlates of household welfare in recent years, and how have these changed in comparison with the 1990s?

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Keynote Speaker
  • Susan Steiner (DIW Berlin)
    Damir Esenaliev (DIW Berlin)
Time
6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Location
Berliner Büro des RWI Hessische Straße 10 10115 Berlin
Contact(s)
external
, HU Berlin
, HU Berlin
24 to 25 June 2011

Conference Development Economics and Policy

The 2011 Conference on Development Economics and Policy will be hosted by the KfW Development Bank and the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin).

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Keynote Speaker
  • Alan Winters (Sussex University/ Chief Economist at DFID)
    Eliana La Ferrara (Bocconi University, Italy).
Location
DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 441
23 June 2011

Applied Micro Seminar The Effects of Extended Unemployment Insurance Over the Business Cycle: Evidence from Regression Discontinuity Estimates over Twenty Years

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Speaker
  • Johannes Schmieder, Boston University
Time
13:15-14:45
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 210
22 June 2011

Seminar Local Economic Development, Agglomeration Economies and Multiple Equilibria: 100 Years of Evidence from the Tennessee Valley Authority
Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

Enrico Moretti is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley where he holds the Michael Peevey and Donald Vial Career Development Chair in Labor Economics. He is the Director of the Infrastructure and Urbanization Program at the International Growth Centre (London School of Economics and Oxford University). He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER, Cambridge) and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR, London) and the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA, Bonn).

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Keynote Speaker
  • Enrico Moretti (UC Berkeley)
Time
6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Location
Humboldt Universität Berlin Room 125 Spandauer Str. 1 10178 Berlin
Contact(s)
external
, HU Berlin
, HU Berlin
16 June 2011

Applied Micro Seminar The Role of Absorptive Capacity for Growth: A Regression Discontinuity Design with Heterogeneous Treatment Effects

Transfers to individuals, firms, and even regional jurisdictions are often regulated by threshold rules, giving rise to a regression discontinuity design. An example are transfers provided by the European Commission to regions of member states below a certain income level. Commonly, researchers focus on estimation of the average treatment eff ect, assuming that it does not vary in a systematic way across units. We suggest a regression discontinuity design which allows for semiparametric or nonparametric identi cation of heterogeneous average treatment e ffects which vary with an observable characteristic. We apply such a design to the impact of regional transfers on economic growth where the treatment eff ect varies with the absorptive capacity of targeted regions as measured by the region's human capital stock.

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Speaker
  • Sascha O. Becker, University of Warwick
Time
12:30-14:00
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 210
16 to 17 June 2011

Graduate Center Masterclasses Behavioral Economics and Firms

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Speaker
  • Steffen Huck, University College London
Time
14:00-18:30 (16.06.)
09:00-12:00 (17.06.)
Location
DIW Berlin (Ferdinand-Friedensburg-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 210
Tel.: +49 30 89789 247
15 June 2011

Seminar Regional Availability of Education and Student Sorting
Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

Abstract: We examine how the regional availability of education affects the schooling choices of young people. We use rich individual-level data on 4 cohorts of Finns leaving comprehensive school in 2000-2003 to study the sorting of individuals across 8 schooling alternatives (gymnasium and 7 vocational fields) and the option of not to study, applying a discrete choice model with random coefficients. We find that the distance to the nearest educational institute offering an alternative has a statistically significant effect on the choice of a schooling alternative for boys and for low performing girls.

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Keynote Speaker
  • Hanna Virtanen (Aalto University)
    Lotta Väänänen (NOKIA)
Time
6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Location
DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
external
, HU Berlin
, HU Berlin
15 June 2011

SOEP Brown Bag Seminar SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Low-paid Jobs - Stepping Stone or Dead End?

Alexander Plum (DIWecon)
Andreas Knabe (FU Berlin)

We examine whether low-paid jobs have an effect on the occupational advancement probability of unemployed persons to obtain better-paid jobs in the future (stepping-stone effect). We make use of data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and apply a dynamic random-effects multinomial logit model. Our results suggest that low-wage jobs can act as stepping-stones to better-paid work. The improvement of the chance to obtain a high-wage job by accepting low-paid work is particularly large for less-skilled persons and for individuals with longer unemployment experiences. Low-paid work is less beneficial if the job is also associated with a low social status.

Time
12:30 - 13:30
Location
DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 308
09 June 2011

Applied Micro Seminar The dynamics of welfare entry and exit among natives and immigrants

Abstract: This paper uses panel data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to analyze welfare entry and exit and to determine the relevance of state dependence. We separately consider natives and immigrants after a substantial reform of the German welfare system ("Hartz reform"). Based on results from dynamic multinomial logit models, we calculate transition matrices between three mutually exclusive labor market states (inactivity, employment, welfare receipt). We find that temporal persistence in welfare participation can for the most part be explained by observed and unobserved characteristics. In general, immigrants appear to have a higher risk of welfare entry and a lower probability of welfare exit compared to natives. On average, they are three times more likely to remain welfare recipients over time than natives. The analysis identifies non-EU citizens, who are mostly of Turkish origin or citizens of the successor states of former Yugoslavia, as the group with the lowest employment stability, the highest persistence in welfare participation, the highest welfare entry rate, and the lowest welfare exit rate. The results do not yield strong evidence of state dependence or of an overall welfare trap.

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Speaker
  • Regina T. Riphahn, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Time
13:15-14:45
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 210
09 to 10 June 2011

Conference The Role of Finance in Stabilizing the Past, Present, and Future Real Economy

The German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), Boston College, Finance Center Münster, and Deutsche Bundesbank in cooperation with the Journal of Financial Stability will organize a conference on the future Role of Finance. The conference takes place on the 9th and 10th of June, 2011, in Berlin, Germany.

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Location
DIW Berlin (Schumpeter Saal) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 162
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08 June 2011

Seminar The long-term effects of school selection. Evidence from the "11 plus" and a truly unique longitudinal dataset
Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

Abstract: Based on analyses of the effects of a wide range of educational experiences in different countries and time periods, the recent education literature suggests that high school interventions can affect a wide range of outcomes, including earnings, family life, health and happiness. In this paper we use a uniquely valuable dataset to document how a single educational intervention in a particular UK setting can affect all of these outcomes.

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Keynote Speaker
  • Emilia del Bono (ISER, University of Essex)
    Damon Clark (University of Florida)
Time
5:30 - 7:00 p.m.
Location
Berliner Büro des RWI Hessische Straße 10 10115 Berlin
Contact(s)
external
, HU Berlin
, HU Berlin
03 to 04 June 2011

Conference Behavioral Finance Conference

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Time
09:30-17:10 (03.06.)
09:15-15:25 (04.06.)
Location
DIW Berlin (Schumpeter Saal) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 210
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01 June 2011

Seminar New Perspectives on the Evaluation of Public R&D Funding
Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

Abstract: Any economic criteria for an efficient allocation of resources is based on marginal "thinking". Such criteria can equally be applied to the evaluation of the public allocation of R&D funds. Di fferently from the usual evaluation schemes - mainly dichotomous - this study implements the continuous treatment matching approach to investigate the optimality of the modulation of public grants. With this method, the marginal treatment e ffects can be identifi ed and sub-optimal amounts of public funding determined. Although we can distinguish cases of input additionality, the substitutability outcome seems to prevail also when unobserved heterogeneity is accounted for.

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Keynote Speaker
  • Davide Sala (Aarhus University)
    Marianna Marino (EPFL)
    Pierpaolo Parrotta (Aarhus University)
Time
6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Location
DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
external
, HU Berlin
, HU Berlin
31 May 2011

31 May 2011 to 17 June 2011 Event European Policy Analysis from an European Perspective

Boston College in cooperation with DIW Berlin will hold a Summer School at DIW Berlin.

DIW-Research-Professor Christopher F. Baum (Boston College) will give the daily lectures of the Summer School. Speakers from DIW Berlin will be Nataliya Barasinska, Ansgar Belke, Kerstin Bernoth, Christian Dreger and Dorothea Schäfer are involved (see lecture plan of DIW researchers).

The Boston College Summer School is open to students from the Graduate Center of DIW Berlin. Please contact if you want to participate.

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27 May 2011

Workshop EUSECON workshop on the macroeconomic impacts of insecurity and security policies

The project EUSECON (A New Agenda for European Security Economics) will hold a workshop on 27 May 2011 at University of Thessaly, Volos (Greece) dedicated to the macroeconomic impacts of insecurity and security policies. The aim of the workshop is to meet in a small group of experts to review the lessons learnt from the project and look for synergies between individual project research papers . The meeting is organised by Christos Kollias (University of Thessaly) and Tilman Brück (DIW Berlin).

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at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 277
26 May 2011

Applied Micro Seminar The long shadow of income on trustworthiness

We employ a behavioural measure of trustworthiness obtained from an experiment carried out with a sample of the general British population whose individuals were extensively interviewed on earlier occasions. These previous interviews allow us to have very good income measures, and in particular to construct a measure of relative income that uses past income as a reference point. Our basic finding is that given past income, higher current income increases trustworthiness and, given current income, higher past income reduces trustworthiness. Past income determines the level of financial aspirations and whether or not these are fulfilled by the level of current income affects trustworthiness. But past income has a disproportionately large effect on trustworthiness compared to that predicted by the relative income theory, and this leads us to suspect that past income may also capture heterogeneity in relevant subjects’ dispositions, with more opportunistic subjects being less trustworthy and having higher average incomes. We suggest and estimate a two-tier model in which relative income has the same positive effect within each past income class, but people in higher past income classes have a lower fundamental levels of trustworthiness.

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Speaker
  • John Ermisch, University of Essex
Time
12:00-14:00
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 210
26 to 27 May 2011

Graduate Center Masterclasses Dynamic Econometric Models

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Speaker
  • Walter Beckert, University of London
Time
09:00-16:00 (26.05.)
09:00-15:30 (27.05.)
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 210
Tel.: +49 30 89789 247
25 May 2011

Seminar Labor Market Effects of Low-Skilled Migration into Two-Tier Welfare Systems
Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

Abstract: According to the European treaties, on the 1st of May 2011, the freedom of movement for workers from the NMS-8 has to be established in all 27 EU member states. Of particular controversy are the consequences of this political step concerning the labor market and the welfare system.
We analyze low-skilled migration into a two-tier welfare system which characterizes many Western European welfare states. The fixed basic income reflects the normative decision about a subsistence-insuring benefit level and is paid independently of the employment history or nationality. In addition, a sort of insurance scheme exists so that workers with a relevant employment history can claim a higher benefit level in case of unemployment. Due to the existence of the basic income scheme, migration-induced labor supply increases make budgetary adjustments of the welfare system necessary, which in turn influences the wage formation and thus labor market outcomes.

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Keynote Speaker
  • Christoph Skupnik (FU Berlin)
    Jan König (FU Berlin)
Time
6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Location
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin Raum B002/3 Reichpietschufer 50 10785 Berlin
Contact(s)
external
, HU Berlin
, HU Berlin
25 May 2011

SOEP Brown Bag Seminar SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Innovative Work Practices, Working Conditions and Their Impact on Employee Well-being: Evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel

Annika Nielsen (University of Basel)

During the last decades substantial changes in the labor market have had a tremendous impact on the working arrangements of employees. Not only have non-standard working arrangements such as temporary work and part-time jobs gained of importance but the working conditions themselves have undergone major transformations. As a consequence of the decline of manufacturing jobs and the growth of service oriented office work accompanied by employee involvement in decision making the work-related stressors shifted from physical and environmental strains to rather psychological ones. Although employee involvement is often referred to as a way to not only improve organizational performance but also to make employees' lives easier it can be noticed that these changes in the working conditions can also be a burden for affected employees.
The paper examines the effect of innovative work practices on employee health empirically using the waves of 1995 and 2001 of the German socio-economic panel (SOEP). Hereby, several different aspects of workplace innovations such as decision making authority, self dependent work organization, and diversified tasks are taken into account. In order to take objective as well as subjective measures of employee health into consideration sickness days, self-rated health, and satisfaction with health are used to capture the health effect. The research question is approached by applying different panel estimation techniques depending on the scale of the endogenous variable.

Time
12:30 - 13:30
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 308
24 to 25 May 2011

Conference Meeting Global Challenges: German - U.S. Innovation Policy

The German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) and the National Academies of Sciences (NAS) are pleased to invite you to
the conference.

High ranked representatives from politics, academics and private business discussed the latest development in the field of innovation and education policies. The overall goal of the meeting is to better understand our common challenges and opportunities in several important areas relating to innovation policy, including:

  • Best practice lessons from both nations' innovation systems in order to identify how our respective innovation capacities can be improved and what steps might be taken to accelerate progress;
  • Comparisons of U.S. and German approaches for stimulating and capitalizing on innovation in critical industrial sectors such as biomedical, electric mobility, and clean energy; and
  • Common challenges and areas for cooperation where innovative technologies are needed to address national and global concerns.
     

Location
Meistersaal am Potsdamer Platz Köthener Straße 38 10963 Berlin (Mitte)
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 569
Tel.: +49 30 89789 296
20 May 2011

Graduate Center Masterclasses Structural Modeling

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Speaker
  • Victoria Prowse, University of Oxford
Time
09:00-18:00
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 210
Tel.: +49 30 89789 247
19 May 2011

Applied Micro Seminar Measuring Learning

Abstract:
Attempts to measure learning are hampered by the tendency to use precise and objective information. As a result, an important part of what people learn remains below surface. In this paper we depart from this tradition. Our approach is to measure learning with subjective questions which capture the theoretical concepts. We distinguish between the time used to learn and outcomes. We also distinguish between people performing certain tasks aimed at learning and learning as a side-product of productive activities. This new approach provides an interesting picture of the importance of informal learning: 94% of learning at work is informal, each year of experience is worth six months of schooling. Although people learn less when they become older, people at work continue learning until retirement, while people who are not in school or work part time lose skills and knowledge from age 57 onwards.

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Speaker
  • Lex Borghans, Maastricht University
Time
13:15-14:45
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 210
18 May 2011

SOEP Brown Bag Seminar SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
The in-work poverty risk and its entry transitions: differences in risk patterns between Germany and Great Britain

Leen Vandecasteele (University of Manchester & WZB Berlin)
Marco Gießelmann (University of Cologne)

Working poverty is on the increase and is acknowledged as a substantial welfare risk in most post-industrial societies (Andreß and Lohmann 2008). This paper investigates transitions to in-work poverty in Germany and Great Britain. Despite similar levels of overall in-work poverty, the life events associated with entry into in-work poverty are expected to differ according to the way this risk is managed and countered by the welfare system.

The theoretical part of the paper outlines how the in-work poverty risk is mediated by both labour market institutional framework as well as its welfare system. Consequently, empirical analysis on the basis of the German Socio-Economic Panel and the British Household Panel will elaborate on the main patterns of in-work poverty and the triggers of in-work poverty entry. The main triggers for in-work poverty entry are sought in transitions from unemployment or inactivity, labour market transitions (into part-time, self-employed or temporary work as well as occupational downgrading) and changes in the household employment context.

The findings suggest that labour market entrants suffer disproportionately from the risk of entering in-work poverty in Germany. In Great Britain, employment exits of the partner is a stronger in-work poverty trigger and labour market transitions such as downward mobility and job change occur more frequently.

Time
12:30 - 13:30
Location
DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 308
18 May 2011

Seminar The Integration of Forced Migrants after World War II. Evidence for Germany's First- and Second Generation
Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

Abstract: As a result of World War II, millions of Germans fled or were expelled from East and Central Europe and re-settled in West Germany. We analyze the economic integration of these forced migrants and their offspring. Our results show that a quarter of a century after the war had ended both generations of migrants still perform strikingly different in economic terms than otherwise comparable natives. First-generation migrants have substantially lower incomes, and they less often own property, work in agriculture, or are self-employed. Displaced agricultural workers, however, earn significantly more, which can be explained by more frequent transitions from low-paid agricultural to industrial employment. Differences in the labor market performance of second-generation migrants largely resemble those of the first generation. We also find that intergenerational transmission of education is weaker among forced migrants. In particular, children of low-skilled fathers have a higher intergenerational upward mobility in education.

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Keynote Speaker
  • Michael Kvasnicka (RWI),Sebastian Braun (IfW) and Thomas Bauer (RWI))
Time
6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Location
Humboldt Universität Berlin Room 125 Spandauer Str. 1 10178 Berlin
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external
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, HU Berlin
17 May 2011

Applied Micro Seminar Preference for consistency

Abstract: This paper studies how a "preference for consistency" can affect economic decision-making. We propose a two-period model of decision-making where people have a preference for consistency because consistent behavior allows them to signal personal and intellectual strength. This creates a trade-off between choosing according to their beliefs and reputational concerns. We then present three experiments that study main predictions and implications of the model. Results from the experiments suggest that preferences for consistency affect behavior in a systematic way and can provide a powerful channel of social influence.

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Speaker
  • Armin Falk, University of Bonn
Time
13:15-14:45
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
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at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 210
12 May 2011

Applied Micro Seminar Liquidity, Risk, and Occupational Choices

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Speaker
  • Milo Bianchi, Paris Dauphine University
Time
13:15-14:45
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
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at DIW Berlin
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11 May 2011

SOEP Brown Bag Seminar SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
The effect of preschool attendance on secondary school track choice: Evidence from siblings

Martin Schlotter (ifo München)

In this paper we estimate the causal effect of preschool attendance on secondary school track choice after primary school using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). In line with previous literature, OLS and Probit models show significant positive associations between preschool attendance and the probability of attending the highest secondary school track. Yet, using a siblings approach and controlling for family fixed effects, returns to preschool become significantly smaller and close to zero. These results are robust to the inclusion of several sibling-specific determinants that might affect within-family differences in both preschool attendance and future track choice. The small effects of preschool might be the consequence of the low-intensity character of German preschools.

Time
12:30 - 13:30
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 308
11 May 2011

Seminar Flexicurity, Wage Dynamics and Inequality over the Life-Cycle
Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

Abstract:
We investigate the relationship between the evolution of individual hourly wages over the life-cycle and the Danish flexicurity system- a combination of employer flexibility in hiring and firing, unemployment insurance benefits and a growing emphasis on activation for the unemployed. We use 24 years of population-based longitudinal administrative data on men to model individual wage dynamics, distinguishing between a long term life-cycle profile and transitory wage shocks.

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Keynote Speaker
  • Lorenzo Cappellari (Università Cattolica Milano)
Time
6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Location
Berliner Büro des RWI Hessische Straße 10 10115 Berlin
Contact(s)
external
, HU Berlin
, HU Berlin
05 to 06 May 2011

Graduate Center Masterclasses Beyond Mean Impacts in Empirical Research

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Speaker
  • Magne Mogstad, Statistics Norway
Time
15:00-18:30 (5.5.)
09:00-13:30 (6.5.)
Location
DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
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at DIW Berlin
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Tel.: +49 30 89789 247
05 May 2011

Applied Micro Seminar Taxation of Couples: A Critical Survey

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Speaker
  • Ray Rees, Munich University
Time
13:15-14:45
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
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at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 210
04 May 2011

Seminar The Effects of Conflict on Fertility in Rwanda
Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

Abstract:
The aim of this paper is to study the short- and long-term fertility effects of mass violent conflict on different population sub-groups. We pool three nationally representative demographic and health surveys from before and after the genocide in Rwanda, identifying conflict exposure of the survivors in multiple ways. We find a robust effect of genocide on fertility, with a strong replacement effect for lost children. Having lost siblings reduces fertility in the short-term only. Most interesting is the continued importance of the institution of marriage in determining fertility and in reducing fertility for the large group of widows in Rwanda.

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Keynote Speaker
  • Dr. Kati Schindler, DIW Berlin
Time
6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Location
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin Raum B002/3 Reichpietschufer 50 10785 Berlin
Contact(s)
external
, HU Berlin
, HU Berlin
29 April 2011

Graduate Center Masterclasses Topics in Time Series Analysis and Forecasting

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Speaker
  • Jörg Breitung, Universität Bonn
Time
09:30-18:00
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
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at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 210
Tel.: +49 30 89789 247
27 April 2011

SOEP Brown Bag Seminar SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
All in the Family British Style: Does Family Smoking Cause British Youth to Smoke?

Laura Fumagalli (ISER, University of Essex)
joint work with Dean R. Lillard (Cornell University)

Smoking is one of the leading preventable causes of death in every developed economy. In the U.S. smoking is estimated to be a significant cause of more than 400,000 premature deaths annually. Recent policy debates in most countries have tended to focus on how to prevent youth from starting to smoke. Embedded in these debates is a stylized fact that has yet to be established in a systematic waywhether smoking by older family member (parents and/or older siblings) causes youth to be more likely to take up smoking. Many policy experts assume the answer to this question is obvious. In this paper we use data from the British Household Panel Study to try to estimate whether the relationship is causal. We estimate both naive models that ignore the endogeneity of the smoking decisions of family members and models that control for those choices. The results suggest that failing to control for the endogenous choice of parents to smoke leads to incorrect inferences.

Time
12:30 - 13:30
Location
DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 308
27 April 2011

Seminar The Gender Wage Gap and its Cumulative Effects over the Early Career. A Comparison of Cohorts with the British Household Panel Survey
Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

Abstract:
The paper examines how patterns of gender inequality change with new cohorts entering the labour market. It is well established that the gender wage gap in Britain has narrowed considerably since the 1970's. One of the explanations refers to the fact that women enjoy wider participation in education and start their careers at higher levels of occupational attainment. Consequently, the gender wage gap has seen a decline. However, more research is needed to establish how this equalization in terms of educational chances works out over the career. The research uses a lifecourse perspective on barriers to gender equality in the labour market. It examines the evolution of the gender wage gap in different cohorts of British labour market entrants. The main question concerns why the gender wage gap grows over the professional lifetime. Moreover, the comparison of different cohorts of labour market entrants allows us to investigate whether the gender wage evolution has become more equal for more recent cohorts. The results are based on change-score regression analyses, as well as random effects models of the British Household Panel Survey and show that the start wages of men and women have indeed become more equal over time. However, a substantial gender wage gap arises within the first 10 years in the labour market, due to the tendency of women to have interruptions in the career and smaller promotion chances. There are some signs that this trend is slightly declining for the more recent birth cohorts, but this is entirely explained by changes in the employment situation for the more recent cohorts, rather than a reduction in the residual gender effect.

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Keynote Speaker
  • Leen Vandecasteele, University of Manchester
Time
6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Location
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin Raum B002/3 Reichpietschufer 50 10785 Berlin
Contact(s)
external
, HU Berlin
, HU Berlin
20 April 2011

SOEP Brown Bag Seminar SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Internet users and non-users: comparing SOEP-data and a probability-based online panel

Bella Struminskaya (GESIS)

Online surveys are gaining in importance as a tool of data collection and as a platform for methodological experiments. However, certain challenges in regard to the quality of data need to be considered. Volunteer as well as probability-based online panels pose problems of non-coverage bias. Internet users differ from non-users in demographic characteristics: they are younger, better educated, non-immigrants, and have higher income compared to non-users.

In addition to the differences in demographics there are some "webographic" or attitudinal dissimilarities between the two groups: Internet-users tend to be more "socially content" - they are more trusting, have lots of people to draw on for support, and tend to think that others are generally fair (Lenhart et al. 2003). Thus, attitudes and values of Internet users may differ from those of non-users and data collected online would lack representativeness.
The goal of this explorative study is to evaluate the data quality of an online panel comparing SOEP-data and data from the offline-recruited probability-based online panel (GESIS). The analysis includes three steps.

First, using SOEP2008 data the differences between Internet users and non-users are studied.
The results replicate the finding of Lehnart et al. showing that German Internet users tend to be more socially content: after controlling for demographic differences Internet users significantly differ in their opinion that generally people are trustworthy and fair (though that doesn't hold true for readiness to help others).

Second, the quality of the online panel is assessed by a comparison of the panelists' answers to the SOEP-data (the recruitment for the online panel started in December 2010). In the third step it would then be possible to estimate the non-coverage bias of the online panel by contrasting data collected via the Internet to the SOEP-data of the general population (Internet users and non-users).  

Time
12:30 - 13:30
Location
DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 308
20 April 2011

Seminar Do extreme temperatures redistribute mortality rates? Evidence from Germany
Berlin Network of Labour Market Researchers (BeNA)

Background: In this study we analyse the relation between extreme temperature events and mortality in Germany. The main research questions are: Do heat events lead to rising mortality and if yes are the effects contemporary and compensated in near future or are they continuing? Furthermore, differences of the heat impact between urban and rural environments are analysed.
Data and Methodology: Cause specific daily mortality and meteorological data is connected on the county level. We assumed static as well as dynamic relations between extreme temperatures and mortality and used panel data estimation approaches.
Main Findings: We found a significant positive impact of extreme heat on mortality and thus a negative impact on public health. Strongest mortality effects can be measured on the days when heat occurs and the first week afterwards. The mortality increase ranges between 0.003 and 3.5 per 100,000 inhabitants depending on the particular cause specific sample. Effects are even stronger, the more days after another are very hot. Our results are in contrary to the Harvesting Hypothesis. Using meteorological climate scenarios we approximated that till the end of this century over 4100 additional deaths per year in Germany will be induced by the occurrence of heat events. Furthermore, the environment plays an important role for the intense of the heat impact. We estimated signifi cantly higher increases in mortality in urban areas.

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Keynote Speaker
  • Martin Karlsson and Maike Neumann, TU Darmstadt
Time
6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Location
Humboldt Universität Berlin Room 125 Spandauer Str. 1 10178 Berlin
Contact(s)
external
, HU Berlin
, HU Berlin
14 April 2011

Applied Micro Seminar Adieu Rabenmutter - The Effect of Culture on Fertility, Female Labour Supply, the Gender Wage Gap and Childcare

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Speaker
  • Rainald Borck, University of Passau
Time
13:15-14:45
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 210
13 April 2011

Seminar Kick It Like Özil? Second Generation Migrants' Initial Disadvantage and the Failure of the Education System
Berlin Network of Labour Market Researchers (BeNA)

We investigate second generation migrants and natives in Germany's education system. We determine at what stage the persistent native-migrant gap in labor market and schooling outcomes emerges. Controlling for family background and other characteristics, we employ a matching approach in order to account for the fact that migrants and natives are different. We find that second generation migrants are initially disadvantaged due to both their socioeconomic family background and the education system. We also find that comparable natives, in terms of family background, face similar difficulties. Thus, Germany's education system fails to provide equal opportunities for all initially disadvantaged individuals.

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Keynote Speaker
  • Ulf Rinne, IZA
Time
6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Location
DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
external
, HU Berlin
08 April 2011

Workshop EUSECON workshop on the microeconomic analysis of determinants and effects of insecurity

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Location
DIW Berlin (Ferdinand-Friedensburg-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
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at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 277
07 to 08 April 2011

Seminar Panel data econometrics: Established methods and challenges 
Berlin Network of Labour Market Researchers (BeNA)

The 2011 BeNA Lecture Series will be given by Manuel Arellano (CEMFI Madrid). He will hold three lectures and one research talk.

Dates and Time:
April 7
3:00-4:30pm: Lecture on linear panels: Unobserved heterogeneity and dynamics
5:00-6:30pm: Lecture on nonlinear panels: Random effect and Bayesian approaches
April 8
2:00-3:30pm: Lecture on nonlinear panels: Fixed effects and bias reduction
4:00-5:30pm: "Identifying Distributional Characteristics in Random Coefficients Panel Data Models" (research talk)

The lectures and the research talk will be in English. They are free of charge and open to the public. Please register by sending an e-mail to Thomas Siedler (tsiedler@diw.de).

The Berlin Network of Labour Market Researchers (BeNA) was founded in 2004 as a forum for the discussion and development of research projects by young labour market researchers working at universities and research institutions in Berlin. At the heart of the network lies the Leibniz Seminar on Labour Research and the Lecture Series. Previous BeNA lectures were held by Steve Pischke, Steve Machin, Michael Lechner, Andrea Ichino, Robert Hart and Gerard van den Berg.

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Keynote Speaker
  • Prof. Manuel Arellano, CEMFI Madrid
Location
Humboldt Universität Berlin Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Raum 220 Spandauer Str. 1 10178 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 526
Tel.: +49 30 89789 464
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, RWI, Essen
06 April 2011

SOEP Brown Bag Seminar SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Two-stage indirect sampling of Kindergarten children in the National Educational Panel Study

Solange Koch (National Educational Panel Study )

In general sampling is based on a complete list. Complete lists of information concerning all units of the target population enable using sampling strategies and getting – depending on the quality of list and strategy – unbiased estimators for parameters of the target population. Without a sampling frame direct sampling is not possible. In this situation Lavallée (2007) suggests to use an indirect sampling approach. If there exists a population with an available sampling frame and this population is connected to the target population in a uniquely defined manner, indirect sampling allows provision of a random sample of the target population and the provision of weights permitting an unbiased estimation of population parameters. There are different kinds of indirect sampling approaches, depending on the kind of link between two populations UA (the population with an available sampling frame) and UB (the target population) and whether a multistage sampling strategy is incorporated. The connection between both populations is called link and can be described by an indicator variable: If there is a connection between a unit j of UA and a unit k of UB , then let lj,ik =1 and lj,ik =0 otherwise, with i describing the structure of clusters in population UB , if there exists one .With this indicator variable and the knowledge of the selection probabilities of all units in UA weights can be calculated.

In the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) six main cohorts are sampled by a multicohort sequence design to get a longitudinal analysis of education in Germany. In contrast to institutions of other cohorts there is no sampling frame available for Kindergartens. However, in Germany all children have to attend at elementary school. Therefore every child that had been in Kindergarten can be found in an elementary school and for elementary schools a sampling frame exists. Hence, in the NEPS we sample elementary schools sA from the population UA and ask them to list all Kindergartens k from which children from their first grade came from. Proportional to the number of trespassing children Kindergartens are sampled and Kindergarten children tested. With all children tested in Kindergarten the sampling procedure is a two-stage indirect sampling.

Time
12:30 - 13:30
Location
DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
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at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 308
04 April 2011

Workshop Policy Workshop "The Global Economic Costs of Conflict"

The German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), the German Foundation for Peace Research (Deutsche Stiftung Friedensforschung) and the Households in Conflict Network (HiCN) are holding a policy workshop on 4 April 2011 to present the research results of the Global Economic Costs of Conflict (GECC) research project to policymakers and offer a forum to interactively discuss the results and consider their policy implications.

 

Location
DIW Berlin (Schumpeter Saal) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 441
23 March 2011

SOEP Brown Bag Seminar SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
On the Stability of Self-Reported Measures of Willingness to Take Risks

Ingo Isphording (Ruhr University Bochum Research School)

Newly available self-reported measures of willingness to take risks are increasingly used as empirical representations of individual risk preferences. Psychological literature states that risk preferences are formed during childhood and are stable thereafter.  Referencing this literature, stability of preferences is often used as an identication assumption in econometric work.  This study supports this assumption empirically. Using data from the German SOEP, a Hausman-Taylor approach is used to test the influence of childhood characteristics and exogenous lifetime events
on the level of self-reported willingness to take risks. Childhood characteristics turn out to be important determinants of willingness to take risks. Reported willingness to take risks decreases strongly with age, shocks like inheritance or emerging work disability have only a small, but signicant impact. This induces a potential source of endogeneity when willingness to take risks is used as explanatory variable in labor market research.

Time
12:30 - 13:30
Location
DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
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at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 228
20 to 22 March 2011

Event Inaugural General Assembly Meeting of the Global Young Academy

The Global Young Academy (GYA) will hold its inaugural general assembly meeting from March 20th to 22nd at the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin (DIW Berlin). The GYA is an international and independent institution of approximately 100 young scientists from 46 countries. The initial support of the InterAcademy Panel (IAP) was instrumental in founding the organization, and more recent generous financial support from the Volkswagen Foundation of Germany has enabled the development and growth of the GYA. The meeting will also mark the launch of the GYA Secretariat, which will be located in Berlin, Germany. The head of the Department of International Economics at DIW, Tilman Brück, is a member of the Executive Committee of the GYA.

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Location
DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
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17 to 18 March 2011

Symposium 7th International Young Scholar German SOEP Symposium

For the seventh time the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS) of the University of Bremen and the Jacobs University and the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) in collaboration with the Hanse Institute for Advanced Study (HWK) are pleased to announce the "International Young Scholar German Socio-Economic Panel Symposium".

The symposium provides an opportunity for doctoral students of all disciplines (e.g. economics, demography, psychology, sociology) at any stage of their doctoral thesis to present empirical research in progress - carried out with SOEP or comparable panel data such as BHPS or SHP - and to discuss theoretical, conceptual and empirical issues with senior researchers. We encourage interested young scholars to submit abstracts.

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Location
Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg Delmenhorst/ Germany
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at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 (0) 421-218  66355
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Ekaterina Uglanova
BIGSSS, Jacobs University
euglanov@bigsss-bremen.de
02 March 2011

Berlin Lunchtime Meeting Managing skilled labour migration - Trends and challenges

Thomas Liebig, International Migration Division, OECD

Comment: Gunilla Fincke, Expert Council on Integration and Migration (SVR)

Chair: Heino von Meyer, Head, OECD Berlin Centre

By 2020, in the absence of migration, age-related exits from the working-age population will on average across the OECD be almost 30% higher than entries. In Germany they will be even 75% higher. At the same time, as skills needs are growing with recovery and the globalisation of the economy, concerns about "skills shortages" are becoming widespread. What role is there for labour migration in this context? The presentation will review recent key trends in labour migration and its management among OECD countries. It also highlights the challenges faced by OECD countries in attracting, retaining and integrating skilled migrants. It builds on the main findings from the OECD International Migration Outlook and related work.

Thomas Liebig joined the International Migration Division of the OECD’s Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs in Paris in 2004. He is currently working as migration specialist on the analysis of migration trends, the management of labour migration and the integration of immigrants and their children. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of St.Gallen.

Gunilla Fincke is the Director of the Expert Council of German Foundations on Integration and Migration (SVR-Migration) a Berlin based think-tank. Her areas of expertise are migration regimes and the integration of the second generation. She holds a Ph.D. from Free University Berlin. In 2003-05 she has been a McCloy-Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Registration is required. Please send an email to: .
We look forward to your participation.

Time
12.00 - 14.00
Location
DIW Berlin (Schumpeter Saal) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 569
23 February 2011

SOEP Brown Bag Seminar SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Women's Career and Children - Human Capital and Earnings of Women in Korea and Germany. A Comparative Study

Mee-Kyung Jung (PhD student in Economics at the University of Frankfurt am Main)

According to the theory of Mincer and Polachek (1974), this study tests the career discontinuity of women, measured by their earnings, due to childbirth and childcare. Using the data taken from the ‘Korean Labor and Income Panel Study (KLIPS)' and ‘German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP),' this study estimates the effects of children, education and other human capital effects on women's earnings by means of the regression discontinuity design and quantile regression methods. This study found earnings discontinuities in women aged between 30 and 40 in Germany and women aged between 40 and 55 in Korea. German women suffer from a more than 66% earnings drop due to children at their average tenure of 7 years. Unexpectedly, Korean women benefit from a 37% earnings gain attributable to children at their average tenure of 4 years.

Time
12:30 - 13:30
Location
DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 228
16 February 2011

SOEP Brown Bag Seminar SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Power within couples: What factors and transitions affect power?

Yvonne Lott (DIW Berlin and BIGSSS, Bremen)

Social inequality within the family is a crucial dimension of inequality in the wider society. Power imbalances between partners are linked with intra-family inequality. Surprisingly, power has mostly been neglected in German research so far. First goal of this study, therefore, is to get an idea about what factors are related to power. Rational choice theories as well as gender theory provide explanations for who has power and who doesn't. Furthermore, recent studies on power within intimate relationships mainly treat power as a static concept rather than a dynamic process. Since social relationships change during individuals’ lives, power also changes over partners’ life-courses. Given that transitions such as marriage, children and changes of employment status highly influence and shape the lives of individuals, these transitions might also have an impact on couples’ power. The second goal of this study is the analysis of the relationship between marriage, children and changes of employment status and power within couples. Power is measured on two dimensions: (1) control over financial resources and (2) financial decision-making. The analysis is based on the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) in 2004, 2005 and 2008.  Results show that individual income is strongest related to power, but that gender differences also exist with regard to the division of labor and household income. Furthermore, marriage and children increase cooperation in couples. Interestingly, changes to a lower employment status decrease especially female partners' power.. 

Time
12:30 - 13:30
Location
DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 228
16 February 2011

Seminar Does gender matter for academic promotion? Evidendence from a randomized natural experiment
Berlin Network of Labour Market Researchers (BeNA)


Seminarplan für das Wintersemester

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Keynote Speaker
  • Manuel Bagues, Universidad Carlos III Madrid
Time
18:30 - 20:00
Location
DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
external
, HU Berlin
, HU Berlin
10 February 2011

Seminar IO/Finance Seminar
(Regional) Inequality in Federations

Christian Leßmann, Dresden University of Technology, Germany

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Time
16:00 - 18:00 Uhr
Location
DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
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at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 406
Tel.: +49 30 89789 224
Tel.: +49 30 89789 262
09 February 2011

SOEP Brown Bag Seminar SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Design and early findings from Understanding Society: the UK Household Longitudinal Study

Heather Laurie (ISER, Essex, UK)

The talk describes the key design features and progress to date of Understanding Society, the new household panel survey of 40,000 households in the UK. Some early findings from the Innovation Panel of 1500 households which is used for methodological experimentation will be described along with some preliminary results from year 1 of wave 1 of the study.  

Time
12:30 - 13:30
Location
DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
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at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 228
02 February 2011

Seminar Marriage Subsidies and Divorce
Berlin Network of Labour Market Researchers (BeNA)

Abstract:
Policies to promote marriage are controversial. It is essential to distinguish between a marriage which is created by a marriage promoting policy (marginal marriage), and a marriage which would have been formed even in the absence of a state intervention (average marriage). In this paper we exploit the suspension of a cash-on hand marriage subsidy in Austria to examine the differential behavior of marginal and average marriages. The announcement of this suspension led to an enormous marriage boom (plus 350 percent) among eligible couples. Based on a difference-in-differences approach we show that marginal marriages are at least 26 percent less likely to have children and 17 percent more likely to divorce.

Seminarplan für das Wintersemester

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Keynote Speaker
  • Martin Halla, JKU Linz
Time
18:30 - 20:00
Location
Berliner Büro des RWI Hessische Straße 10 10115 Berlin
Contact(s)
external
, HU Berlin
, HU Berlin
26 January 2011

Seminar The Causal Effect of Maternal Education on Child's Health and Schooling Outcomes
Berlin Network of Labour Market Researchers (BeNA)

Abstract:
This is the first study investigating the causal effect of maternal education on child's health behavior and schooling outcomes in Germany. Our paper adds to the existing literature on intergenerational transfers in various ways. We apply a new instrumental variables approach which has not yet been used in the intergenerational context. Therefore, we draw on a rich German panel data set (SOEP) containing information about three generations. This allows instrumenting maternal education by the number of her siblings while conditioning on a comprehensive set of variables describing the grandparents’ social status. Given the grandparents' social status, the number of siblings generates exogenous variation in the years of education by affecting household's resources which are available for human capital investments per child. Unlike studies investigating returns to education by exploiting policy changes, our methodology works also for cohorts unaffected by policy changes and for the limited sample sizes of common household panels. We estimate the causal effect on a wide range of child outcomes both at birth and at age 18/19. We present evidence for strong and significant effects on schooling outcomes for both sexes. And, we find substantial effects on health behavior for daughters at age 18/19, but not for sons. Our findings are robust over a variety of different specifications. We also discuss assortative mating and household income as possible channels of causality. Though, we do not find evidence that the effect of maternal education works through these channels.

Seminarplan für das Wintersemester

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Keynote Speaker
  • Daniel Kemptner, DIW Berlin
  • Jan Marcus, DIW Berlin
Time
18:30 - 20:00
Location
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin Raum B002/3 Reichpietschufer 50 10785 Berlin
Contact(s)
external
, HU Berlin
, HU Berlin
26 January 2011

SOEP Brown Bag Seminar SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
The Causal Effect of Maternal Education on Child's Health and Schooling Outcomes: Evidence from Germany

Jan Marcus and Daniel Kemptner, both DIW Berlin Graduate Center

This is the first study investigating the causal effect of maternal education on child's health behavior and schooling outcomes in Germany. Our paper adds to the existing literature on intergenerational transfers in various ways. We apply a new instrumental variables approach which has not yet been used in the intergenerational context. Therefore, we draw on a rich German panel data set (SOEP) containing information about three generations. This allows instrumenting maternal education by the number of her siblings while conditioning on a comprehensive set of variables describing the grandparents' social status. Given the grandparents' social status, the number of siblings generates exogenous variation in the years of education by affecting household's resources which are available for human capital investments per child. Unlike studies investigating returns to education by exploiting policy changes, our methodology works also for cohorts unaffected by policy changes and for the limited sample sizes of common household panels. We estimate the causal effect on a wide range of child outcomes both at birth and at age 18/19. We present evidence for strong and significant effects on schooling outcomes for both sexes. And, we find substantial effects on health behavior for daughters at age 18/19, but not for sons. Our findings are robust over a variety of different specifications. We also discuss assortative mating and household income as possible channels of causality. Though, we do not find evidence that the effect of maternal education works through these channels.

Time
12:30 - 13:30
Location
DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 228
24 January 2011

Seminar Childcare Services

Gerlinde Verbist and Michael Foerster (both OECD) will give a talk on:
"Money or Kindergarten - What Works Better? A Comparative Analysis of the Distributive Effects of Family Cash Transfers versus Services"

Time
11:00 to 13:00
Location
DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 283
19 to 21 January 2011

Conference The Global Economic Costs of Conflict
International Research Conference

The German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), the German Foundation for Peace Research (DSF) and the Households in Conflict Network (HiCN) are organizing an international research conference on the costs of conflict and related themes. The purpose of this conference is to bring together researchers and to compare theoretical, empirical and methodological research focusing on the costs and consequences of violent conflict.

The deadline for submission of papers is 8 November 2010.
Please see the call for papers for more information.

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Location
DIW Berlin (Schumpeter Saal) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 334
12 January 2011

Seminar Exporters and the Rise in Wage Inequality: Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data
Berlin Network of Labour Market Researchers (BeNA)

Abstract:
Using a linked employer-employee data set of the German manufacturing sector, this paper analyses the role of exporting establishments in explaining rising wage dispersion. Over the period of analysis (1996–2007), the raw wage differential between exporters and domestic establishments increased substantially, which can only partly be attributed to corresponding changes in human capital endowments and the returns to them. These findings are consistent with recent heterogeneous-firm trade models that feature an exporter wage premium as well as variability of the premium with respect to increasing trade liberalization. A decomposition analysis shows that the increase in the conditional wage gap indeed contributed to rising wage inequality both within and between skill groups. In contrast, the growing employment share of exporters contributed to a reduction in wage dispersion.

Seminarplan für das Wintersemester

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Keynote Speaker
  • Daniel Baumgarten, RWI
Time
18:30 - 20:00
Location
Berliner Büro des RWI Hessische Straße 10 10115 Berlin
Contact(s)
external
, HU Berlin
, HU Berlin
16 to 17 Dec 2010

Event End of Year Summit 2010
Network Meeting of the DIW Berlin
Current state and outlook on future projects

In our December Conference 2010, we want to discuss what prospects the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) offers with regard to academic excellence. The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers working on topics related to the research at DIW Berlin.

We invite you to present your activities in economics, behavioral and social sciences.

We hope the conference allows us to strengthen our relationship and start joint research projects. Our seven research departments, the cross-departmental groups and the Graduate Center of Economic and Social Research will be represented throughout the conference.

The conference will be held at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) in the center of Berlin. The cost for economy class travelling and accommodation for two nights will be covered by DIW Berlin, if a paper is accepted for presentation.

For the presentation of research activities, 20 minutes are allowed with 10 minutes discussion led by a graduate student. An extended abstract (approximately 300 words) or preferably an entire article should be sent in advance in doc or pdf format to .

The deadline for submission and registration is October 18, 2010. Authors of accepted contributions will be notified at the beginning of November 2010.

Location
DIW Berlin (Schumpeter Saal) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 208
15 Dec 2010

Seminar Endogenous Skill Acquisition and Export Manufacturing in Mexico
Berlin Network of Labour Market Researchers (BeNA)

Abstract:
Studies based on firm-level data find that both exporting firms and multinational corporations pay higher wages for a given skill level. However, the literature overlooks the fact that export manufacturing firms may also change the educational choices of the workforce. In this paper, I confirm that for Mexico during the period 1986-2000, the export sector pays higher wages than other sectors, but school drop out increases with the arrival of new export jobs. By the year 2000, the workers induced to enter export manufacturing are earning less than they would have earned had the jobs never appeared and they stayed in school longer. I identify the causal effects by looking within municipalities and examining how the education of different cohorts varies with new factory openings in the municipality at key school-leaving ages. Export manufacturing attracts students by paying high relative wages for unskilled workers, and offering many jobs to low-skill workers straight out of school. The magnitudes I find suggest that for every ten new jobs created, one student drops out of school at grade 9 rather than continuing on through grade 12.

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Keynote Speaker
  • David Atkin, Yale
Time
18:30 - 20:00
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
external
, HU Berlin
, HU Berlin
01 Dec 2010

Seminar Ethnic Identity and Early Educational Attainment of Second-Generation Immigrants
Berlin Network of Labour Market Researchers (BeNA)

Abstract:
With growing population shares of second generation immigrants in most Western European countries, the question how well these integrate into educational and labor market structures has reached crucial importance. Educational attainment is widely seen as the main channel of immigrant children's economic advancement. However, they seem to already start their educational careers with an immigrant-specific disadvantage. Cultural aspects of their pre-school home environment might contribute to an explanation of this phenomenon. This study provides a first attempt to analyze the relationship between parental ethnic identity and educational attainment of second generation youth. Results suggest indeed a relation between the degree to which immigrant parents identify with either the host country culture or their background culture and the ability to navigate the German school system. Gender-specific patterns exist both with respect to fathers and mothers as well as for daughters and sons.

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Keynote Speaker
  • Simone Schüller, DIW Berlin
Time
18:30 - 20:00
Location
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin Raum B002/3 Reichpietschufer 50 10785 Berlin
Contact(s)
external
, HU Berlin
, HU Berlin
26 to 27 Nov 2010

Workshop Macroeconometric Workshop 2010

The DIW Berlin organizes its annual workshop on macroeconometric
modelling. The workshop will be held at the German Institute for Economic Research, in the center of Berlin.The aim of the workshop is to bring together academic researchers and practitioners to promote and exchange ideas in the field of macroeconometric modelling.

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at DIW Berlin
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24 Nov 2010

Seminar Climate Change and Health
Berlin Network of Labour Market Researchers (BeNA)

Aufgrund einer Erkrankung musste Maike Neumann ihren Vortrag heute abend leider kurzfristig absagen, so dass das Seminar ausfällt.

Maike Neumann (TU Darmstadt) will present the project "Climate Change and Health".
Abstract: Climate Change is one of the most formidable challenges of modern society. The ecological environment will be affected in many different ways. One particular aspect is the change in temperature distribution. This change will proceed in two different ways: on the one hand average temperatures are predicted to rise and on the other hand meteorological experts anticipate more frequent and intense occurrences of extreme temperatures. Both of them lead to thermal stress on human bodies and thereby influence the health situation. The purpose of this study is to estimate the impact of changing temperatures on public health in Hamburg as representative city of Germany. Using standard econometric time series techniques, we analyze the impact of extreme temperatures. The regarded health variable is the daily mortality rate. High frequency data from the German Weather Service and the Statistical Office of Hamburg and Schleswig Holstein builds the basis for the empirical analysis. The fundamental methodological assumption of this study is linearity in the effects of weather events, as it is commonly assumed in previous studies. Overall the estimates of the different specifications of our general model predict a rising impact of high temperatures on daily mortality and therefore negative climate induced implications for the health status in Hamburg. Regarding the term structure we can conclude that in particular the hypothesis of the harvesting effect cannot be approved by the analysis of our data.

Seminarplan für das Wintersemester

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Keynote Speaker
  • Maike Neumann (TU Darmstadt)
Time
18:30 - 20:00
Location
Berliner Büro des RWI Hessische Straße 10 10115 Berlin
Contact(s)
external
, HU Berlin
, HU Berlin
23 Nov 2010

Workshop EUSECON Policy Workshop

The EUSECON Consortium will hold three small-scale workshops dedicated each to microeconomic, macroeconomic and policy aspects of the project. The first meeting in the series, organised jointly by DIW Berlin and the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy (IFSH) on November 23th 2010 in Hamburg, is dedicated to policy implications of the research undertaken in the project.

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at DIW Berlin
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17 Nov 2010

SOEP Brown Bag Seminar SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
The Individual Level Dynamics of Bounded Partisanship

Thomas J. Scotto  (University of Essex )

Abstract
Over the past half century, scholars utilized a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to study the attachment or identification voters have with political parties. However, models on partisan (in)stability ignore its bounded character.
Making use of Mixed Latent Markov Models we measure change and stability of individual-level West German partisan identification captured over a 24 year period via the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSEOP). Results suggest that distinctive subpopulations exist, which follow different patterns of partisan stability. One party's loss is not necessarily another party's gain.

Time
12:30 - 13:30
Location
DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 228
17 Nov 2010

Seminar Job Creation Subsidies and Employment. Empirical Evidence for Germany
Berlin Network of Labour Market Researchers (BeNA)

Claudia Steinwender (LSE) will present "Job Creation Subsidies and Employment. Empirical Evidence for Germany".
Abstract: Many European countries use job creation programmes in order to raise employment, especially in economically disadvantaged regions. Despite the amount of resources spent on these programmes, rigorous empirical evaluation about their causal effect is scarce. This is mainly due to difficulties in identication, as eligibility for job creation subsidies at the regional level is endogenous. This paper exploits an exogenous change to the rules determining regional subsidy eligibility in Germany to construct valid counterfactuals. The empirical evaluation is not able to find an impact of the availability of job creation subsidies on regional employment. This result is robust to different specifications and research designs. My findings can be interpreted in the context of a search and matching framework, where increased job creations due to hiring subsidies induce more worker quits; and under certain circumstances offsets the positive effect on employment.
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Keynote Speaker
  • Claudia Steinwender (LSE)
Time
18:30 - 20:00
Location
Humboldt Universität Berlin Room 125 Spandauer Str. 1 10178 Berlin
Contact(s)
external
, HU Berlin
, HU Berlin
10 Nov 2010

SOEP Brown Bag Seminar SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
The Effect of Birthright Citizenship on Parental Integration Outcomes

Irma Clots-Figueras (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

Abstract
The integration of immigrants is constantly a subject of public debate, and measures to foster assimilation of newcomers are central in the political agenda of many countries. This paper focuses on the legal institution of citizenship and analyzes the consequences of the introduction of birthright citizenship in Germany. Exploiting the exogenous variation provided by the 1999 reform of the German nationality law, we study the effect of child legal status on the cultural integration of immigrant parents. We find evidence that foreign born parents are more likely to interact with the local community and use German language when their children are entitled to German citizenship at birth.

Time
12:30 - 13:30
Location
DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 228
10 Nov 2010

Seminar Intra-firm wage differentials between German and Non-German Employees
Berlin Network of Labour Market Researchers (BeNA)

Clemens Ohlert (HWR Berlin) will present the project "Intra-firm wage differentials between German and Non-German Employees" (joint with Miriam Beblo and Elke Wolf).
Abstract: In this paper, we analyse the wage differentials between employees of German and Non-German nationality using linked employer-employee data (LIAB) for the period 1996 to 2007. By focussing on the establishment level, we explicitly consider the heterogeneity of wage setting processes within firms. Our results show that the absolute pay gap within firms (of 10.6 percent on average) is about 5 percentage points smaller than the pay gap on the labour market as a whole, thus pointing to a sorting of Non-German workers into low-paying firms. The observed wage differentials are for the most part (8.6 percentage points) explained by differences in education and work experience. When distinguishing between subgroups we find the unexplained wage gap for immigrants from Eastern Europe and Asia to be larger on average than for immigrants from the so called guest worker countries. A subsequent analysis of the relationship between selected firm characteristics and the unexplained intra-firm wage differentials reveals that Non-German employees face significantly lower wage discounts in firms with a high share of exports, a high share of Non-German employees and those covered by collective bargaining agreements. (JEL Classification: J15, J31)
Seminarplan für das Wintersemester

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Keynote Speaker
  • Clemens Ohlert (HWR Berlin)
Time
18:30 - 20:00
Location
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin Raum B002/3 Reichpietschufer 50 10785 Berlin
Contact(s)
external
, HU Berlin
, HU Berlin
03 Nov 2010

SOEP Brown Bag Seminar SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Das Schweizer Haushalt-Panel (SHP): Erfahrungen und neue Entwicklungen

Ursina Kuhn (SHP Schweizer Haushalt-Panel)

Abstract
Das Schweizer Haushalt-Panel (SHP) befragt seit 1999 ca. 5000 Haushalte. Die Präsentation behandet die Punkte Organisation (Institution und Mitarbeiter), Design, Incentives, Interview Mode, Attrition, Verfolgungsregeln, Stichproben, Datennutzer und Datenweitergabe. Für 2012 sind zudem verschiedene Aenderungen geplant (Gewichtung, neue Stichprobe, interview mode), die kurz vorgestellt werden. Die Präsentation soll vor allem als Input für Fragen, Diskussionen und Erfahrungsaustausch zwischen SOEP und SHP dienen.

Time
12:30 - 13:30
Location
DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 228
26 October 2010

SOEP Brown Bag Seminar Special SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Microm Workshop

12:00 - 13:00
Philipp Lersch (BIGSSS, Bremen) will give a talk.
13:00-14:00
Representatives from microm Germany presenting the new microm data.

Philipp Lersch
Passage or trap? Leaving deprived neighbourhoods in Germany 

Abstract

Exposure to potentially negative neighbourhood effects in deprived areas depends heavily on the ability to relocate from deprived neighbourhoods to better-off areas. Which households can leave deprived neighbourhoods? Do households relocate to other deprived neighbourhoods or to better-off areas? These questions have received attention foremost in the US and UK, but not to the same degree in Germany. To close this research gap, the analysis makes use of the SOEP and the MICROM data set for neighbourhoods for the years 2000-2008. First, a measure to identify deprived neighbourhoods is constructed. Second, binary logistic regression models for the occurrence of relocations in deprived and non-deprived neighbourhoods are estimated. These models are enhanced allowing for differentiated neighbourhood outcomes in a multinomial logistic regression setting. The analysis shows that ethnic minorities are not to the same degree trapped in deprived neighbourhoods as in the US or UK. Income plays an important role in shaping outcomes of relocations, while age and health are important for the question whether households in deprived neighbourhoods relocate at all.

Time
12:30 - 14:00
Location
DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 228
21 October 2010

Seminar IO/Finance Seminar
Self-Signaling and the Costs and Benefits of Temptation

Klaus Wertenbroch, INSEAD, France and Visiting Professor of Marketing, The WhartonSchool, University of Pennsylvania

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Time
16:00 - 18:00 Uhr
Location
DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 406
Tel.: +49 30 89789 224
Tel.: +49 30 89789 262
07 October 2010

Seminar IO/Finance Seminar
Unraveling the shift to the entrepreneurial economy

Roy Thurik, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands

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Time
16:00 - 18:00 Uhr
Location
DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 406
Tel.: +49 30 89789 224
Tel.: +49 30 89789 262
06 October 2010

SOEP Brown Bag Seminar SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
The bigger the children, the bigger the worries - Are preschoolers and young adolescents affected differently by changes in family structure with regard to non-cognitive skills?

Frauke Peter (DIW Berlin)
C. Katharina Spieß (DIW Berlin und FU Berlin)

Abstract
Family related factors that form a child's environment seem to be of particular importance, probably more important for the explanation of child outcomes than the environment of other care taking institutions, such as day care centers or schools. In light of this literature, this paper focuses on the impact of changes in family structure during children's early years and during adolescence on the development of socio-emotional behavior and non-cognitive skills. Our analysis concentrates on the early years as well as on young adolescence for two reasons: First, the early years are arguably most important for later outcomes. Second, by analyzing early childhood outcomes we focus only on short-term effects, but especially non-cognitive skills are skills that can be formed later on in life and thus, young adolescents might be influenced strongly. Our empirical analysis is based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). We use non-cognitive skills as our primary measure of child outcomes and compare them with more cognitive related outcomes. Family structure changes are defined by maternal partnership variations, as only biological mothers can be identified definitively in our data sets. A maternal partnership change can either be a different partner, a new partner, or no partner. Our analysis suggests that differences in family stability account for some of the gradient in social-behavioral difficulties for 5-6-year-olds. For young adolescents preliminary results suggest that multiple partner changes are negatively correlated with non-cognitive skills, e.g., they are less likely to be active or self- determined in life.

Time
13:00 - 14:00
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 228
05 October 2010

Berlin Lunchtime Meeting Measuring Well-being and the Progress of Societies - New Initiatives

Martine Durand, Director OECD Statistics

Comment: Roland Zieschank, Free University

Chair: Heino von Meyer, Head, OECD Berlin Centre

“Is life getting better?” GDP and its growth - key indicators widely used to assess economic performance - are increasingly questioned as meaningful measures of social welfare, prosperity and progress. Yet, sound statistics are essential for public trust in policy choices and communication. Relevant and reliable data are a prerequisite for evidence-based policy design, implementation and evaluation.

The Stiglitz-Sen-Fitoussi-Commission initiated by French President Nicolas Sarkozy as well as the EU initiative “GDP and beyond” have critically reviewed our current statistics and identified many shortcomings as well as areas for improvement. The Global Project on "Measuring the Progress of Societies"- hosted by the OECD and run in collaboration with other international and regional partners - seeks to develop statistics for measuring well-being and progress that reach beyond traditional approaches to GDP accounting.

Martine Durand was appointed Director of Statistics and Chief Statistician of the OECD in 2010. She oversees all of OECD’s statistical activities and is also responsible for OECD work on the measurement of well-being and the progress of societies. She was formerly Deputy-Director of Employment, Labour and Social Affairs. She held senior positions in the OECD Economics Directorate and was Deputy-Head of the OECD Secretary-General’s Private Office. Martine Durand graduated in mathematics, statistics and economics from the Paris VI University, the Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l’Administration Economique (ENSAE) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Comment: Joerg Maier-Ries, Federal Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety

Registration is required. Please send an email to. We look forward to your participation.

Time
12:00 - 14:00
Location
DIW Berlin (Schumpeter Saal) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 569
03 to 08 October 2010

Workshop 4th International Research Workshop – “Methods for Ph.D.”

Empirical research is seeking through methodological processes to discover, hopefully, nontrivial facts and insights. Beside choosing a topic and grounding an idea in theory, empirical research consists of gathering and analysing data as well as presenting results in scientific contexts in order to contribute new issues to the body of acquired knowledge - not only to someone‘s own but also to that of others.

The workshop tackles these steps of your research project:

  • Gathering data via (un)structured interviews and analysing standardized survey data,
  • using the computer for qualitative data analysis and as a tool for statistics, and
  • writing a report and giving presentations.
These steps will strengthen the cooperation in empirical research to boost and streamline ones project.

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30 Sept 2010

Seminar Third Doctoral Seminar in Development Economics

The seminar aims to establish an informal network of young scholars in the field of development economics. Doctoral students from DIW Berlin/Humboldt University Berlin, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Frankfurt University, Georg-August-Göttingen University, Mannheim University and other universities will participate in the seminar this year.  

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Time
9am - 5pm
Location
DIW Berlin (Schumpeter Saal) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
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at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 277
15 Sept 2010

Event "Let´s make science metrics more scientific"

The increased push for accountability in science has led to increasing demand for science metrics. Yet the most common metrics, like the "Journal Impact Factor" or the more recent "Hirsch Index", are deeply flawed. What, however, are the alternatives in a world of science, in which quantitative measures are necessary to assess performance? Finding good answers is critical, since the metrics will profoundly influence the conduct of science.

Prof. Julia Lane will discuss the requirements of an internationally consistent rating system for scientific research.

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Keynote Speaker
  • Julia Lane is a former Professor of Economics at the American University, an American Statistical Association Fellow, a research Associate of IZA, the Institute for the Study of Labor, and a Program Director at the National Science Foundation
Time
17:00 - 18:30
Location
DIW Berlin (Schumpeter Saal) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
09 Sept 2010

Seminar IO/Finance Seminar
Network Effects, Market Structure and Industry Performance

Rabah Amir, University of Arizona

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Time
16:00 - 18:00 Uhr
Location
DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
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at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 406
Tel.: +49 30 89789 296
16 July 2010

Seminar How carbon flows through the main components of energy systems and supply chain

Michael Grubb, Cambridge University, will give a seminar on Friday, the 16th of July, at CPI/DIW Berlin. He will outline how carbon flows through the main components of energy systems and supply chain, with an emphasis on the internal structure of flows in materials (steel, cement etc). He will discuss the affects the economics of instrument choice and explore the need to move from production only to a "carbon added" structure of regulation over time, analogous to VAT. Furthermore, issues of tracking and allocation carbon through electricity systems and the impact on investments in low carbon power sources, are core subjects of this seminar.

Keynote Speaker
  • Michael Grubb, Cambridge University
Time
13:15 - 14:15
Location
DIW Berlin (Schumpeter Saal) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 471
14 July 2010

SOEP Brown Bag Seminar SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Subsidized Employment and Happiness

Benjamin Crost (Berkeley University)

Abstract

 While a large body of evidence suggests that unemployment and self-reported happiness are negatively correlated, it is not clear whether this reflects a causal effect of unemployment on happiness and whether subsidized employment can increase the happiness of the unemployed. To close this gap, I estimate the causal effect of a type of subsidized employment projects - Germany's Arbeitsbeschaffungsmassnahmen - on self-reported happiness. Results from matching and fixed effects estimators suggest that subsidized employment has a large and statistically significant positive effect on the happiness of individuals who would otherwise have been unemployed. Detailed panel data on pre- and post-project happiness suggests that this effect can neither be explained by self-selection of happier individuals into employment nor by the higher incomes of the employed.

Time
12.30 - 13.30
Location
DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 228
08 July 2010

Seminar IO/Finance Seminar
Versioning When Customers Can Buy Both Versions

Joan Calzada, University of Barcelona

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Time
4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 406
Tel.: +49 30 89789 296
07 July 2010

SOEP Brown Bag Seminar SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Income inequality, relative income and health

Cristina Blanco (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Abstract

Given the lack of consensus in the literature regarding the effect of income inequality on health, this paper studies the relationship between both variables, focusing on the relative income hypotheses. Using data of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we analyse the effect of relative deprivation on individual self-assessed health, when considering "upwards" and "downwards" income comparisons within the reference group. We also control for the existence of feedbacks effects between income and health in a dynamic qualitative response model.

Time
12.30 - 13.30
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 228
30 June 2010

30 June 2010 to 2 July 2010 GSOEP SOEP 2010

The 9th International German Socio-Economic Panel User Conference (SOEP2010) will be held in Berlin, June 30 to July 2nd, 2010, at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB). The conference provides researchers who use the SOEP with the opportunity to present and discuss their work with other researchers familiar with SOEP data. Researchers of all disciplines (e.g. economics, demographics, geography, political science, public health, psychology and sociology) who use the SOEP or the GSOEP part of the Cross-National Equivalent Files (CNEF) are invited to submit an abstract. We encourage in particular submission of papers using the longitudinal features of SOEP as well as papers on survey methodology and cross national comparative analysis.

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Keynote Speaker
  • Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln,
    Faculty of Economics, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt (Main)
Location
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin Raum B002/3 Reichpietschufer 50 10785 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 283
29 June 2010

Workshop Stata Workshop 2010

** Unfortunately booked up, no further application possible **

Workshop on Econometric Analysis for Panel Data Using Stata, held by David Drukker (Director of Econometrics from Stata Corp.). The one-day course takes place the day before the 9th SOEP User Conference on June 29, 2010, at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin).

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Keynote Speaker
  • David Drukker (Director of Econometrics from Stata Corp.)
Time
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Location
DIW Berlin (Schumpeter Saal) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
external
Anke.mrosek@dpc.de
Dittrich und Partner Consulting GmbH
Phone: +49-212 260 66 – 24
24 to 26 June 2010

Symposium Behavioural Economics, Consumer Policy, and Consumer Law - An International and Interdisciplinary Symposium

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at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 668
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Prof. Dr. Lucia A. Reisch
Department of Intercultural Communication and Management, Copenhagen Business School
E-mail: lr.ikl@cbs.dk
Tel.: +45 3815 3299
24 June 2010

Seminar IO/Finance Seminar
Profiting from Technological Capabilities: Technology Commercialization Strategy in a Dynamic Context

Simon Wakeman, European School of Management and Technology, Berlin

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Time
4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 406
Tel.: +49 30 89789 296
18 June 2010

Graduate Center Masterclasses Investment under Uncertainty: Entry, Real Options, and Irreversibility

Frank Riedel, Bielefeld

Masterclasses start at 9:00 and end around 18:00. There will be a long lunch pause, from 13:15 to 16:00.

9.00-10.30 Stochastic Dynamic Programming

11.00-12.30 Typical Economic Applications: Asset Pricing, Investment, Options...

12.30-13.15 Practice

13:15-16:00 Lunch Pause

16.00-17.30 Current Research: investment under ambiguity)

If you want to participate please, or have a question, send an email to gweizsaecker@diw.de.

Affiliates of the Berlin Doctoral Program in Economics and Management Science (BDPEMS) can also register on the BDPEMS webpage.

The Masterclasses are open to all affiliates of DIW and BDPEMS.

Time
9.00 bis 18.00 Uhr
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 247
17 June 2010

Seminar IO/Finance Seminar
Insuring Consumption Using Income-Linked Assets

Andreas Fuster, Harvard University, Cambridge

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Time
4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 406
Tel.: +49 30 89789 296
14 to 16 June 2010

GSOEP SOEPcampus@Universität Mannheim 2010

This year's SOEPcampus@Universität Mannheim Workshop "Längsschnittdatenanalyse mit dem Sozio-ökonomischen Panel (SOEP)" will take place from June 14-16 (workshop held in German).

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Prof. Dr. Marita Jacob
09 June 2010

SOEP Brown Bag Seminar SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Respondent-Driven Sampling

Elisabeth Liebau, DIW Berlin
Matthias Schonlau, Rand Corporation and DIW Berlin

Abstract
Respondent driven sampling (RDS) is a sampling technique typically employed for hard-to-reach populations (e.g. injecting drug users, men having sex with men, and sex workers).
Briefly, initial seed respondents recruit additional respondents from their network of friends. The recruiting process repeats iteratively, thereby forming long referral chains.
It is crucial to obtain estimates of respondents' network size (e.g. number of friends with the characteristic of interest). RDS shares some similarities with snowball sampling, but the theoretical foundation for inference using RDS samples is much stronger. We will give a brief overview over this technique, studies that have used RDS and some of the challenges they encountered.

The presentation will be in German. 

Time
12.30 - 13.30
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 228
07 June 2010

Workshop Wettbewerb um die Zukunft des Internet: The winner takes it all?
Welche Auswirkungen haben Quasi-Monopole im Internet für Branchen, Unternehmen und Nutzer?

Organizer:
ICOMP (Initiative for a Competitive Online Marketplace) and
Department Information Society and Competition, DIW Berlin

Time
4:30 - 7:30 pm
Location
DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
external
Dr. Ferdinand Pavel
DIW econ GmbH
E-mail: fpavel@diw-econ.de
Tel. 030 89789-497
07 to 08 June 2010

Workshop The Behavioural and Cultural Foundations and Consequences of Violence
International Research Workshop

The Institute of Social Sciences (ICS, Lisbon) and the Households in Conflict Network (HiCN) are organizing an international research workshop on the behavioural foundations and consequences of violence. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers from different social science disciplines and countries and to compare current theoretical, empirical and methodological research perspectives.

Please send your completed paper and a short curriculum vitae (maximum two pages) by email and in PDF format to violence.workshop@ics.ul.pt by 28 February 2010. 

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02 June 2010

SOEP Brown Bag Seminar SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Measuring Time Use in Surveys - A Novel Validation of Survey Questions through Experience Sampling

Bettina Sonnenberg, DIW Berlin
Michaela Riediger, MPI for Human Development
Cornelia Wruz, MPI for Human Development
Gert G. Wagner, DIW Berlin

 Abstract
According to the literature, it is still not clear to what extent stated time allocation in questionnaires reflects the actual behavior of people. Using experience sampling data, we analyze the congruence of stated time use and reported behavior elicited through a novel experience sampling method. Our comparisons indicate that rather long-lasting and outstanding activities like market work seem to be accurately measured by common survey questions. In contrast, for more short-term activities or those around which people do not tend to structure their time—such as errands—only small correlations can be revealed. We conclude that activities with a long duration can be measured in a satisfactory manner by short survey questions whereas it is an open methodological question if experience sampling method or survey questions deliver more reliable and valid measures for short-term activities.

Time
12.30 - 13.30
Location
DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 228
28 May 2010

Graduate Center Masterclasses Theory and Empirics of Optimal Monetary Policy
Sanjay Chugh, University of Maryland

Masterclasses start at 9:30 and end around 18:00, unless noted otherwise. If you want to participate please, or have a question, send an email to gweizsaecker@diw.de. The masterclass will take place at Schumpeter Hall of the DIW Berlin, Mohrenstr. 58, 10117 Berlin.

Affiliates of the Berlin Doctoral Program in Economics and Management Science (BDPEMS) can also register on the BDPEMS webpage.
The Masterclasses are open to all affiliates of DIW and BDPEMS.

Time
09:30-18:00
Location
DIW Berlin (Schumpeter Saal) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 247
27 May 2010

Seminar IO/Finance Seminar
Signaling in Deterministic and Stochastic Settings

Hans-Theo Normann, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf

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Time
16:00 - 18:00 Uhr
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 406
Tel.: +49 30 89789 296
21 May 2010

Graduate Center Masterclasses Modern Mechanism Design

Dirk Bergemann, Yale

If you want to participate please, or have a question, send an email to gweizsaecker@diw.de. The masterclass will take place at Room 5.2.010 of the DIW Berlin, Mohrenstr. 58, 10117 Berlin.

Here you can find the syllabus of the course.

Affiliates of the Berlin Doctoral Program in Economics and Management Science (BDPEMS) can also register on the BDPEMS webpage.

The Masterclasses are open to all affiliates of DIW and BDPEMS.

Time
10.45 bis 18.00 Uhr
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 247
06 May 2010

Seminar BSEC seminar: Low Carbon Development Plans - What can we learn from economic and energy system modelling?

Christian Hey, German Advisory Council on the Environment
Felix Matthes, Institute for Applied Ecology

The German target to reduce CO2 emissions by 2020 and 80% by 2050 requires a transformation of our economy. We will discuss what can economic and energy system models can tell us about this transformation and whether they can be the basis for scenarios to guide policy design and private sector investment. Christian Hey and Felix Matthes will present recent studies of a decarbonisation of the German economy to kick of the discussion.

Please note that Mrs. Franziska Holz, DIW, will chair the seminar.

If you would like to attend, please confirm your participation at .

Time
12.30 to 14.30
Location
DIW Berlin (Schumpeter Saal) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
04 to 05 May 2010

SOEP Brown Bag Seminar SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
A comparison of following rules and weighting approaches in household panel surveys

Matthias Schonlau, Rand Corporation
Martin Kroh, DIW Berlin

Abstract
The first wave of a household panel survey captures a cross section of the population at one point in time. However, target population and household composition change over time. Following rules are introduced to decide which household members are still surveyed after they leave the household. We compare following rules of several large household panels and show how different following rules would have affected sample size in the SOEP. Changing household compositions also raise questions about appropriate sampling weights. We compare various weighting approaches employed by large household panels to address this issue. We find that after 25 panel years most respondents still live in a household with a wave 1 respondent. Therefore, following rules have relatively little impact on sample size.

Time
12.30 - 1.30 p.m.
Location
DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 228
29 April 2010

Seminar IO/Finance Seminar
Search Engines: Left Side Quality versus Right Side Profits

Alexander White, Toulouse School of Economics and  Télécom ParisTech

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Time
16:00
Location
DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
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at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 406
Tel.: +49 30 89789 296
21 April 2010

SOEP Brown Bag Seminar SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Interviewer Personality and Survey Error: Interviewers' Conscientiousness as Predictor for Item- and Unit Nonresponse in a Panel Household Study

Michael Weinhardt, DIW Berlin

In household panel surveys, interviewers' first task is to secure respondents' cooperation, i.e. initial response and response over time. A second task is to collect and record precise information on the respondents. Previous studies have shown that the 'Big-Five' personality trait conscientiousness is significantly related to general indicators of job performance. In this paper we look at whether this holds for survey interviewers also. The data used to investigate this problem is unique in the sense that it did not have to rely on data provided by fieldwork agencies, but information on interviewers that was collected during a separate study. In December 2006, a survey of all current interviewers of the German Socio-economic Panel Study (SOEP) was conducted and 546 interviewers responded to a 10-page paper questionnaire. This included a short version of the Big Five Inventory, a scale to assess the 'Big Five' personality traits including conscientiousness. Also in 2006, a refreshment sample for the SOEP was drawn and respondents interviewed for the first time, giving the opportunity to study initial unit response. With this data, we examined the effects of interviewers' conscientiousness on initial response, household attrition and item nonresponse by linking survey data from the interviewers with household and individual level information on respondents. Using a multilevel regression framework, we find that interviewer conscientiousness is not related to initial response in 2006, but is significantly related to overall item nonresponse in 2006 and to household attrition in 2007. Results will be discussed in terms of their usefulness for the recruitment and training of interviewers, highlighting the importance of conscientiousness in an interviewer's approach to work.

Time
12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
Location
DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 228
16 April 2010

Graduate Center Masterclasses Decision-making under ambiguity and its economic implications

Jayant Ganguli, Cambridge

Masterclasses start at 9:30 and end around 18:00, unless noted otherwise. If you want to participate please, or have a question, send an email to gweizsaecker@diw.de.

Affiliates of the Berlin Doctoral Program in Economics and Management Science (BDPEMS) can also register on the BDPEMS webpage.

The Masterclasses are open to all affiliates of DIW and BDPEMS.

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Time
9.30 bis 18.00 Uhr
Location
DIW Berlin (Schumpeter Saal) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 247
15 April 2010

Seminar IO/Finance Seminar
Field and Online Experiments on Procrastination and Willpower

Gary Charness, Department of Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara

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Time
16:00
Location
DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
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at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 406
Tel.: +49 30 89789 296
09 to 10 April 2010

Conference Ageing, savings and retirement

The conference is expected to address the issues of consumption, savings and retirement behaviour in ageing societies and to include approximately 12 presentations over the two days. Invited speakers at the conference will be Martin Browning from the University of Oxford and Arthur van Soest from Tilburg University.

The conference is organized as part of a joint project of the DIW-Berlin and the University of Warsaw under the heading “Economic Risks, Savings and Retirement Decisions in Ageing Societies” of which the German part is financed by the German Science Foundation (DFG) and the Polish part by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education.

Researchers interested in presenting their work at the conference are requested to send a full paper by email to Johannes Geyer (jgeyer@diw.de) at the DIW-Berlin until 12th February 2010. There is also a limited number of places for those interested in attending the conference without presenting their work. Travel expenses (economy class) and hotel costs for presenters of papers will be reimbursed.

Conference organisers:
Prof. Viktor Steiner, DIW-Berlin and Free University, Berlin;
Dr. Michal Myck, Centre for Economic Analysis, Szczecin and DIW-Berlin;
Johannes Geyer, DIW-Berlin;

Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 258
Tel.: +49 30 89789 268
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Dr. Michal Myck, Centre for Economic Analysis, Szczecin and DIW Berlin;
24 March 2010

SOEP Brown Bag Seminar SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Agreeable Housewives? Women's Noncognitive Skills and Return to Employment after Childbirth

Eva M. Berger, DIW Berlin

Recent economic literature found that noncognitive skills play an important role in economic and social success like educational attainment and employment outcomes. In particular for employment probabilities, some studies even conclude that noncognitive skills have a larger impact than cognitive skills and that this pattern is especially pronounced for women. Building on this literature, this paper investigates how noncognitive traits affect the time until a mother returns to employment after childbirth. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), I refer to the concepts of Locus of Control and of the Big Five personality traits. I estimate a discrete survival model incorporating a discrete mixture distribution to summarize unobserved heterogeneity. The results indicate that women with a high score on agreeableness return to employment later. The effects of extraversion and belief in external control are both found to be inversely U-shaped. Individuals at both extremes of the traits return to employment later than individuals with moderate traits.

Time
12:30 - 1:30 pm
Location
DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 228
04 to 05 March 2010

Symposium Sixth International Young Scholar German Socio-Economic Panel Symposium

For the sixth time the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS) of the University of Bremen and the Jacobs University and the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) in collaboration with the Hanse Institute for Advanced Study (HWK) are pleased to announce the "International Young Scholar German Socio-Economic Panel Symposium".

The symposium provides an opportunity for doctoral students of all disciplines (e.g. economics, demography, psychology, sociology) at any stage of their doctoral thesis, to present empirical research in progress – carried out with panel data (especially SOEP data) – and to discuss theoretical, conceptual and empirical issues with senior researchers. We encourage interested young scholars to submit abstracts.

If you would like to attend the symposium, please submit an abstract of your topic (350 words, in English) together with complete contact information before November 30, 2009.  

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Location
Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg Delmenhorst/ Germany
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at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 (0) 421-218  66355
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Yvonne Lott
BIGSSS & DIW Berlin

Ekaterina Uglanova
BIGSSS, Jacobs University
Campus ring 1
28759 Bremen
Tel.: +49 (0) 421-200 3952
Fax: +49 (0) 421-200 3955
Email: euglanov@bigsss-bremen.de
03 March 2010

SOEP Brown Bag Seminar SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Dynamic Aspects of Income Justice

Peter Valet
Stefan Liebig, University of Bielefeld

Empirical research on distributive justice seeks to identify justice perceptions in a society which can be considered as patterns that legitimate inequalities. Therefore the analysis of distributive justice evaluations primarily focuses on the perceived justice of (labour) incomes.

So far empirical justice research using large scale survey data was restricted to a cross-sectional perspective. The recent wave of the GSOEP (2009) now provides the third query (after 2005 and 2007) concerning the justice evaluation of the own income. Hence it is now possible to investigate dynamic aspects of just incomes with a panel approach.

Time
12.30 - 13.30
Location
DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 228
02 March 2010

DIW Berlin Seminar The Carbon Content of Austrian Trade Flows in the European and International Trade Context

Abstract
In this study CO2 emissions embodied in Austrian international trade are quantified employing a 66-region input output model of multidirectional trade. We find that Austria's final demand CO2 responsibilities on a global scale are 38% higher than conventional statistics report (110 Mt-CO2 versus 79 Mt-CO2 in 2004). For each unit of Austrian final demand, currently two thirds of the thus triggered CO2 emissions occur outside Austrian borders. We then develop a 19-region computable general equilibrium model of Austria and its major trading partners and world regions to find that future Austrian climate policy can achieve the EU 20-20 emission reduction targets, but that its carbon trade balance would worsen considerably. Both unilateral EU and internationally coordinated climate policies affect Austrian international trade stronger than its domestic production.

Based on
Bednar-Friedl, B., P. Muñoz Jaramillo, T. Schinko, K. Steininger (2009), The Carbon Content of Austrian Trade Flows in the European and International Trade Context, FIW Research Reports 2009/2010 N° 05 / Trade, Energy and Environment.

http://www.fiw.ac.at/index.php?id=479#c8868

Keynote Speaker
  • Prof. Dr. Karl W. Steininger
    Department of Economics & Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change, University of Graz, Austria

Time
11:00-12:00
Location
DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 329
25 to 26 February 2010

Workshop First Joint DIW BERLIN/IZA Workshop on Entrepreneurship Research

The aim of the workshop is to bring together leading scholars and young researchers working on topics related to entrepreneurship research at the intersection of economics and psychology. Acknowledging the increasing importance of understanding the determinants of entrepreneurial development, we invite contributions from various methodological backgrounds: theoretical contributions as well as empirical research using survey evidence, laboratory experiments, neuroeconomic methods, and field experiments.

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Keynote Speaker
  • David Audretsch (Indiana University)
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Tel.: +49 30 89789 157
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Marco Caliendo (IZA)
25 February 2010

IO Seminar IO Seminar 2009/2010 with Özlem Bedre-Defolie

Countervailing Power Hypothesis and Waterbed Effects
Özlem Bedre-Defolie, ESMT European School of Management and Technology, Berlin

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Time
16:00 c.t.
Location
DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 296
Tel.: +49 30 89789 661
24 February 2010

SOEP Brown Bag Seminar SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Preferences, Institutions, and Stereotypes - Determinants of the Gender Specific Occupational Channelling

Anne Busch, DIW Berlin 

Although women and men nowadays are similarly work-oriented and show a comparable human capital accumulation (e.g. concerning education), most women still work in typical "women's jobs" and most men in typical "men's jobs". While there exists much research about consequences of working in gender typical or atypical occupations, only few studies analyze systematically the determinants of the gender specific occupational channelling on the individual level.

With her presentation, Anne Busch tries to fill this gap: The main goal is to analyze empirically the determinants of the gender specific occupational "choices", and to broaden the theoretical view from more classical pre-occupational, preference-oriented theories to institutional and social-psychological as well as organizational approaches.

Time
12.30 - 13.30
Location
DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 228
22 to 24 February 2010

Graduate Center Masterclasses Berliner Netzwerk Arbeitsmarkt (BeNA) Lecture Series 2010
Topics in Regression Analysis

Jointly organized with BENA lecture series (3 lectures of 90 mins).

The lectures will be largely based on the recently published book "Mostly Harmless Econometrics: An Empiricist's Companion" by Joshua Angrist and Jörn-Steffen Pischke.

Topics covered in the lectures include:
(1) Basics in regression analysis: The role of control variables and measurement error
(2) Grouped data and two sample IV methods
(3) Weak instrumental variables

The lecture series is targeted at grad students, Ph. D. students, and postdocs, but all interested researchers
are welcome! Attendance is free of charge.

Affiliates of the Berlin Doctoral Program in Economics and Management Science (BDPEMS) can also register on the BDPEMS webpage.

The Masterclasses are open to all affiliates of DIW Berlin and BDPEMS.

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Speaker
  • Prof. Jörn-Steffen Pischke
    London School of Economics (LSE)
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at DIW Berlin
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18 to 26 February 2010

Workshop Waterday
Waterday Workshop on Water Economics and Technology

A workshop on Water Economics and Technology.Organized by the Joint Research Program "Water Economics and Management".

Berlin, Thursday, 25 February 2010
DIW Berlin, Mohrenstraße 58, Berlin
1st Floor, Schumpeter Hall

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Keynote Speaker
  • Jon Stern (City University London)
Location
DIW Berlin (Schumpeter Saal) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
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at DIW Berlin
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Robert Wand, TU Berlin
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10 February 2010

IO Seminar Joint IO/Finance, BeNa Seminar with Mirjam van Praag

Returns for Entrepreneurs versus Employees – The effect of education and personal control on the relative performance of entrepreneurs vis-à-vis wage employees
Mirjam van Praag, University of Amsterdam

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Time
18:00 - 19:30
Location
DIW Berlin (Schumpeter Saal) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 296
Tel.: +49 30 89789 661
04 February 2010

IO Seminar IO Seminar 2009/2010 with Jianyu Yu

Quality Provision and Farmer Inclusion of Agricultural Cooperatives
Jianyu Yu, Toulouse School of Economics

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Time
16:00 c.t.
Location
DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
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at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 296
Tel.: +49 30 89789 661
01 February 2010

Graduate Center Masterclasses Luigi Guiso, The role of trust and social capital in economic decisions and outcomes

Luigi Guiso, European University Institute, Florence

If you want to participate, or have a question, please send an email to gweizsaecker@diw.de.

Affiliates of the Berlin Doctoral Program in Economics and Management Science (BDPEMS) can also register on the BDPEMS webpage.

The Masterclasses are open to all affiliates of DIW Berlin and BDPEMS.

 

Time
9.30 bis 18.00 Uhr
Location
DIW Berlin (Ferdinand-Friedensburg-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 247
01 to 02 February 2010

Workshop The Global Cost of Conflict
International Research Workshop

The German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) and the Households in Conflict Network (HiCN) are organising an international research workshop on calculating the costs of conflict and related themes. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers from different institutes and to compare cutting-edge theoretical, empirical and methodological research on how to calculate the costs of conflict and on related themes.
The deadline for submissions is December 1, 2009.

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Location
DIW Berlin (Schumpeter Saal) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 277
28 January 2010

IO Seminar IO Seminar 2009/2010 with Volker Nocke

Vertical Relations Under Credit Constraints
Volker Nocke, University of Mannheim

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Time
16:00 c.t.
Location
DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
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at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 296
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21 January 2010

IO Seminar IO Seminar 2009/2010 with Bettina Peters

Starting an R&D Project Under Uncertainty

Bettina Peters, Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim

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Time
16:00 c.t.
Location
DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
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at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 296
Tel.: +49 30 89789 661
14 January 2010

IO Seminar IO Seminar 2009/2010 with Gergely Csorba

Separating the Ex Post Effects of Mergers: An Analysis of Structural Changes on the Hungarian Retail Gasoline Market
Gergely Csorba, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

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Time
16:00 c.t.
Location
DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
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at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 296
Tel.: +49 30 89789 661
12 January 2010

Invited Lecture Stochastic Dynamic Modeling in Energy

Keynote Speaker
  • Prof. Steven A. Gabriel
Time
16:00
Location
DIW Berlin (Arthur-Cecil-Pigou-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
17 to 18 Dec 2009

Workshop Macroeconometric Workshop 2009

The aim of the workshop is to bring together academic researchers and practitioners to promote and exchange ideas in the field of macroeconometric modelling. Presentations are scheduled for the first two days. The participants of the workshop are also invited to attend the DIW End-of-the-Year Summit, December 18-19.

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Location
DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
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at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 231
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16 to 17 Dec 2009

Event End of Year Summit

In our December Conference 2009, we want to discuss what prospects the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) offers with regard to academic excellence. The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers working on topics related to the research at DIW Berlin.

We would like to invite participants to present their activities in economics, behavioral and social sciences. Our seven departments, the cross-departmental research groups and the Graduate Center of Economic and Social Research themselves are available for questions about their activities. At the conference, future research projects will be discussed.

The conference will be held at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) in the center of Berlin. The cost for economy class travelling and staying overnight, from 16 to 18 December 2009 in Berlin, will be covered by DIW, if a paper is accepted for presentation. The summit will be organized in cooperation with the Macroeconometric Workshop of DIW Berlin.

For the presentation of research activities, 20 minutes are allowed, plus up to 10 minutes for discussion. An extended abstract (approximately 300 words) or preferably an entire article should reach the conference in advance in doc or pdf format, to be submitted to president@diw.de. The deadline for submission and registration is October 31, 2009. Authors of accepted contributions will be notified by November 15, 2009.

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at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 208
11 Dec 2009

Graduate Center Masterclasses Empirical Industrial Organization: Dynamic Models

Philipp Schmidt-Dengler, LSE

If you want to participate please, or have a question, send an email to gweizsaecker@diw.de.

Affiliates of the Berlin Doctoral Program in Economics and Management Science (BDPEMS) can also register on the BDPEMS webpage.

The Masterclasses are open to all affiliates of DIW Berlin and BDPEMS.

 

Time
9.30 bis 18.00 Uhr
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 247
10 Dec 2009

IO Seminar IO Seminar 2009/2010 with Robert Schmidt

Market Share Dynamics in a Model with Search and Word-of-Mouth Communication
Robert Schmidt, Humboldt University of Berlin

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Time
16:15
Location
DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
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at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 296
Tel.: +49 30 89789 661
03 Dec 2009

IO Seminar IO Seminar 2009/2010 with Jonathan Tan

Strategic Alliances: Collaboration, Competition and Inequality
Jonathan Tan, Nottingham University Business School

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16:00
Location
DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 296
Tel.: +49 30 89789 661
03 Dec 2009

Workshop Workshop Discussion: The Fate of the Jews in Germany from 1933-45

International Economics Department at DIW Berlin and the Junge Akademie are organising a German-language workshop discussion titled "The Fate of the Jews in Germany from 1933-45: iinterdisciplinary discussion of methods and micro-level questions".

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02 Dec 2009

DIW Berlin Seminar The century ahead - four global scenarios

Rich Rosen, Tellus Institute, Boston

Over the last decade, concern as to the sustainability of nature and society has greatly increased, and with good reason.  Environmental scientists say with ever greater urgency that action must be taken immediately to begin to mitigate climate change if unacceptable levels of warming are to be avoided.  Additional strong action must be taken to ease the severity of other crises such as energy, water and food shortages.  Similarly, development experts reviewing the full range of human, economic, and institutional crises as they unfold see the need for immediate action on many other fronts to mitigate poverty and oppression, to strengthen social justice, and to enhance human well-being.
 
Dealing with these crucial environmental and development issues begins, then, to address the even broader issue that has been hotly debated for many years, namely can the world achieve a state of “sustainable development” within the next century, or so.  But how can "sustainable development" be  defined and quantified?  How do we know what pathway to sustainable development to take?  Using its Polestar scenario development software, the Tellus Institute has developed four scenarios through the year 2100, one of which, the Great Transition scenario, starts to illustrate quantitatively what sustainable development might look like while the world meets approximately a 350 ppm CO2 target for the atmosphere.  The other three scenarios are entitled:  Market Forces, Policy Reform, and Fortress World.  This work takes off from the work of the Global Scenario Group of ten years ago.

Keynote Speaker
  • Rich Rosen
Time
13:00-14:00
Location
DIW Berlin (Schumpeter Saal) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 329
27 Nov 2009

Graduate Center Masterclasses Panel Data Analysis

Jörg Breitung, Bonn

If you want to participate please, or have a question, send an email to gweizsaecker@diw.de.

Affiliates of the Berlin Doctoral Program in Economics and Management Science (BDPEMS) can also register on the BDPEMS webpage.

The Masterclasses are open to all affiliates of DIW Berlin and BDPEMS.

 

Time
9.30 bis 18.00 Uhr
Location
DIW Berlin (Schumpeter Saal) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 247
26 Nov 2009

IO Seminar IO Seminar 2009/2010 with Ganna Pogrebna

Innovation, Entry into Multiple Markets and Unobserved Heterogeneity
Ganna Pogrebna, Columbia University, New York

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Time
16:00
Location
DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
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at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 296
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23 Nov 2009

Seminar International Economics Seminar: Peter Emerson

Peter Emerson will give a seminar titled "Adversarial democracy is an oxymoron?".
Peter Emerson is the director of The de Borda Institute in Belfast, which performs work in Northern Ireland, the Balkans, the Caucasus and East Africa. Its goal is the promotion of more representative democracy and to inform voters, politicians and academics about the negatives of typical voting procedures like majority voting, which is characterised as "the most inaccurate measure of collective opinion ever invented". The alternative proposed by the institute is the modified Borda count which has been promoted by the institute since 1978.

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Location
DIW Berlin (Schumpeter Saal) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
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at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 408
20 Nov 2009

Graduate Center Masterclasses Dynamic Optimization

Rachel Ngai, LSE

If you want to participate please, or have a question, send an email to gweizsaecker@diw.de.

Affiliates of the Berlin Doctoral Program in Economics and Management Science (BDPEMS) can also register on the BDPEMS webpage.

The Masterclasses are open to all affiliates of DIW Berlin and BDPEMS.

Time
9:30 to 18:00
Location
Hertie School of Governance Raum: Forum A Friedrichstr. 180 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 247
19 Nov 2009

IO Seminar IO Seminar 2009/2010 with Mikhail Drugov

Financing Experimentation
Mikhail Drugov, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

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Time
16:00
Location
DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
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at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 661
13 Nov 2009

Conference Trans-Atlantic INFRADAY
Conference on Applied Infrastructure Modeling and Policy Analysis

DIW Berlin is pleased to organize the 3rd Annual Trans-Atlantic INFRADAY conference in Washington, D.C. on November 13, 2009, in cooperation with DIW DC, Resources for the Future and the University of Maryland. The objective of this 3rd Trans-Atlantic INFRADAY conference is to identify similarities and differences between various networked industries such as energy, transportation, and water, and to draw comparisons between North American and European experiences in research in this area. A particular emphasis will be on the engineering-economic connection, as well as the policy implications. The conference is hosted by the Washington-based think tank Resources for the Future (www.rff.org). For more information, see tai.ee2.biz.

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at DIW Berlin
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12 Nov 2009

Workshop Innovation, Science, and Technology Policies in a Post-Crisis World
A Transatlantic Perspective

DIW Berlin and the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS) at Johns Hopkins University are pleased to announce the conference "Innovation and Science & Technology Policies in a Post-Crisis World - A Transatlantic Perspective " on November 12 in Washington, D.C. This conference addresses short- and medium-term innovation policy issues from an applied and an academic perspective. It will bring together stakeholders, policymakers and academics from the U.S. and Germany and the EU who from the fields of innovation and science & technology policy. One highlight of the event will be the presentation of the recent edition of the innovation indicator by DIW Berlin.

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Location
Washington DC U.S. Institute of Peace
2nd Floor Conference Room A
1200 17th St, NW
Washington, DC 20036
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
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05 Nov 2009

Seminar International Economics Seminar: Wim Naude

Wim Naude (UNU-WIDER) will give a presentation on 'International Entrepreneurship from China: Evidence from Firm Level Data'.

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DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
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at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 408
02 Nov 2009

Workshop International Economics Seminar: Petros Sekeris

Petros Sekeris (University of Namur): On the Feasibility of Power and Status Ranking in Traditional Setups (with Jean-Philippe Platteau).

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DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
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at DIW Berlin
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29 to 30 October 2009

Conference Final Conference of the ESCIRRU Project

The final conference of the project "Economic and Social Consequences of Industrial Restructuring in Russia and Ukraine" (ESCIRRU) will bring together researchers from partner institutes in Hungary, Italy, Poland, Russia, UK and Ukraine as well as researchers from the Department of International Economics, DIW Berlin to present the findings of the project.

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Location
State University - Higher School of Economics Moscow Russia
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at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 277
29 October 2009

IO Seminar IO Seminar 2009/2010 with Heiner Schumacher

Pain and Precautions – A Theory of Health Insurance
Heiner Schumacher, Goethe-University Frankfurt

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Time
16:00
Location
DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
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at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 296
Tel.: +49 30 89789 661
22 to 24 October 2009

Conference 3rd Conference of the Leibniz Research Network "Non-Cognitive Skills: Acquisition and Economic Consequences"

Local Organizer: Jürgen Schupp, C. Katharina Spiess, Christine Kurka (Sozio-oekonomisches Panel)

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at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 283
21 October 2009

Symposium German Day on Development

Hosted by Michael Hofmann, Executive Director for Germany at the World Bank, and organized by the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), and DIW DC, this event provides an opportunity to discuss research results of leading German research institutes on development issues and to enhance collaboration and communication between researchers in Washington and in Germany.

Location
The World Bank I -Building, 1850 I Street, NW Washington, D.C. USA
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +493089789 407
20 October 2009

IO Seminar IO Seminar 2009/2010 with Bronwyn Hall

Innovation and Productivity in SMEs. Empirical Evidence for Italy
Bronwyn Hall, University of California, Berkeley

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Time
16:00
Location
DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
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at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 296
Tel.: +49 30 89789 661
19 October 2009

Workshop Fourth Workshop of the Network for the Economic Analysis of Terrorism (NEAT)

NEAT connects a group of leading European economists working on terrorism and insecurity,and it brings them into dialogue with policy‐makers. The network’s workshops advance our understanding of the links between security and economics, and they assist in analyzing the costs and benefits of European security policies.
The network’s fourth workshop will include: an overview of the latest economic research into terrorism and counter‐terrorism,a session on the link that may exist between terrorism and development issues, and a special presentation and discussion of a network‐sponsored economic analysis of the impact of terrorist attacks on European rail networks.

To register, please send an email with your name, job title, institutional affiliation, email address, and telephone number to John Holmes. Registration will close on 28 September. 

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Time
09:00-18:15
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at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 277
15 October 2009

IO Seminar IO Seminar 2009/2010 with Dennis Gärtner

Making Sense of Non-Binding Retail-Price Recommendations
Dennis Gärtner, Universität Zürich

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Time
16:00
Location
DIW Berlin (Arthur-Cecil-Pigou-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
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at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 296
Tel.: +49 30 89789 661
12 to 13 October 2009

Workshop SOEPcampus@University Bremen 2009
Introduction to the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) and Applied Survival Analysis

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09 to 10 October 2009

Conference INFRADAY-Konferenz: Innovation in Network Industries - Markets and Regulation, Pull and Push

The Workgroup for Infrastructure Policy (WIP) at Berlin University of Technology, the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), the Institute for Economic Policy Research (IWW) at University Karlsruhe, and the Chair for Energy Economics & Public Sector Management (EE2) at Dresden University of Technology hold the 8th Conference on Applied Infrastructure Research on 9-10 October, 2009. It is a forum of debate among academia, practitioners, and policy makers. This year's topic is "Innovation in Network Industries - Markets and Regulation, Pull and Push". The sectoral foci are transport, energy, telecommunication & internet, and water.

Among the highlights of the conference are the keynote speeches by Dr. Hermann Scheer (Member of the German Parliament, EUROSOLAR, WCRE), Prof. Dr. Juan Rosellon (CIDE, Mexico), Dr. Karsten Neuhoff (DIW Berlin), and Prof. Dr. Anming Zhang (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada). The first day of the conference is dedicated to the elections in Germany and their implications for infrastructure policy, and to the issues electromobility and renewable energies. During the second day, cross-sectoral topics such as regulation and innovation as well as sector-specific analyses are discussed in a number of presentations.

The conference takes place at TU Berlin. Please register online until Tuesday, October 6, 2009. More informationen about registration, conference program and location can be found on the website. The registration fee is 200 Euro; a reduced fee of 100 Euro applies to participants from public institutions.

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07 October 2009

Seminar Peace and War with Endogenous State Capacity
International Economics Seminar

Speaker: Gary Milante (The World Bank)

Time
14.00-15.00
Location
DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 408
04 to 09 October 2009

Workshop International Research Workshop "Methods for Ph.D."

Empirical research is seeking through methodological processes to discover, hopefully, nontrivial facts and insights. Beside choosing a topic and grounding an idea in theory, empirical research consists of gathering and analysing data as well as presenting results in scientific contexts in order to contribute new issues to the body of acquired knowledge - not only to someone‘s own but also to that of others.

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Location
Akademie Sankelmark near Flensburg
28 Sept 2009

Seminar International Economics Seminar: Christian von Hirschhausen

Christian von Hirschhausen (DIW Berlin): "Water in the Development Context: Pricing, Sustainability, and Conflict".

Location
DIW Berlin (Arthur-Cecil-Pigou-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 408
25 Sept 2009

Graduate Center Masterclasses Empirical Industrial Organization: Static Models

Michelle Goeree, Zurich

If you want to participate please, or have a question, send an email to gweizsaecker@diw.de.

Affiliates of the Berlin Doctoral Program in Economics and Management Science (BDPEMS) can also register on the BDPEMS webpage.

The Masterclasses are open to all affiliates of DIW Berlin and BDPEMS.

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Time
9:30 - 18:00
Location
DIW Berlin (Schumpeter Saal) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 247
21 Sept 2009

Seminar International Economics Seminar: Tony Muhumuza

Tony Muhumuza (DIW Berlin): Does Civil War Influence Individual Perceptions? Evidence from Northern Uganda (with Carlos Bozzoli, Tilman Brück)

Note: This seminar is internal as Tony will present research at the design stage. If you would like to attend anyways, please contact cbinzel@diw.de.

The International Economics Seminar provides the opportunity for members of the department and invited speakers to present on-going research. The seminar takes place on a weekly basis and is open for the public (unless otherwise indicated). If you would like to receive weekly announcements by email, please contact Christine Binzel, cbinzel@diw.de.

Keynote Speaker
  • Tony Muhumuza, DIW Berlin
Time
11:30-12:30
Location
DIW Berlin (Arthur-Cecil-Pigou-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 408
14 Sept 2009

Seminar International Economics Seminar

Christine Binzel (DIW Berlin): "Parental Background, Education and Occupational Attainment in Egypt: Changes from One Generation to the Next".

The International Economics Seminar provides the opportunity for members of the department and invited speakers to present on-going research. The seminar takes place on a weekly basis and is open for the public (unless otherwise indicated). If you would like to receive weekly announcements by email, please contact Christine Binzel, cbinzel@diw.de.

Time
11:30-12:30
Location
DIW Berlin (Arthur-Cecil-Pigou-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 408
10 to 12 Sept 2009

Workshop SOEP-CNEF Workshop

Workshop for International Users of SOEP and CNEF Data

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Location
Cornell University Ithaca, NY USA
16 July 2009

IO Seminar IO Seminar 2009 with Markus Reisinger

Successive Oligopolies with Differentiated Firms and Endogenous Entry
Markus Reisinger, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich

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Time
16:00
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
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at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 306
Tel.: +49 30 89789 698
Tel.: +49 30 89789 296
09 July 2009

IO Seminar IO Seminar 2009 with Alexander Rasch

The Double Auction with Inequity Aversion
Alexander Rasch, University of Cologne

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Time
16:00
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
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at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 306
Tel.: +49 30 89789 698
Tel.: +49 30 89789 296
02 to 03 July 2009

Workshop Third Annual Workshop of the MICROCON consortium

MICROCON, or ‘A Micro Level Analysis of Violent Conflict’ is a five-year research programme funded by the European Commission, which takes an innovative micro level, multidisciplinary approach to the study of the conflict cycle. MICROCON is being implemented by a consortium of 23 research institutions and involves over 60 researchers.
 
The consortium will be holding its Third Annual Conference at DIW Berlin on 2nd and 3rd July. The first day will be an internal workshop devoted to discussion of research results to date, and how to integrate findings from the different parts of the programme. The second day will include invited policymakers and will involve presentations of MICROCON’s policy relevant findings and discussions of how the programme’s work can be made more relevant and useful for policymakers. The discussions will be organised around four themes:
 

  • Individual and group motivations for mobilisation into violence, including gender identities
  • Migration, displacement and health
  • Poverty and coping -  effects of violent conflict at the individual and household levels and strategies for adaptation to violence
  • Institution-building during and after violent conflict, including the role of civil society

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Location
DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
18 June 2009

Seminar IO Seminar 2009

Yves Breitenmoser, Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder):
Forward Trading and Capacity Precommitment in Oligopoly

The DIW Berlin „Information Society and Competition“ and “Innovation, Manufacturing, Service” joint seminar focuses on advances in applied microeconomics, industrial organization and economic policy issues.

Time
16:00
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
10 June 2009

Conference ECRI and DIW Berlin conference on retail banking in Europe

The current financial crisis has triggered massive state interventions and large-scale regulatory initiatives affecting Europe’s banking industry. While most of the discussion has focused so far on the banking market as a whole, participants at this high-level conference jointly organised by the European Credit Research Institute in Brussels and the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) will discuss how the turmoil affects the retail side of the financial services market. A special focus will be put on the impact on competition and regulation.

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Location
Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) Brussels
09 June 2009

Seminar IO Seminar 2009

Frank Wolak, Stanford University:
How Do Firms Exercise Market Power? Evidence from a Multi-Unit Auction Market

Frank A. Wolak is Professor at the Department of Economics at Stanford University and a Research Affiliate with the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development (PESD) at Stanford University. His fields of specialization are Industrial Organization and Econometric Theory. His recent work studies methods for introducing competition into various infrastructure industries: telecommunications, electricity, water delivery and postal delivery services. His work includes assessing the impacts of these competition policies on consumer and producer welfare.

The DIW Berlin „Information Society and Competition“ and “Innovation, Manufacturing, Service” joint seminar focuses on advances in applied microeconomics, industrial organization and economic policy issues.

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Time
12:30
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
27 to 28 March 2009

Symposium 5th International Young Scholar German Socio-Economic Panel Symposium

Symposium of the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS) at the University of Bremen and the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) at DIW Berlin in collaboration with the Hanse Institute for Advanced Study (HWK).

Closing date for submissions is December 31, 2008.

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Location
Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg Delmenhorst/ Germany
05 to 07 March 2009

Conference FINESS-Conference
"Financial Systems, Efficiency and Stimulation of Sustainable Growth"

5-6 March 2009: International Conference "Financial Systems, Efficiency and Stimulation of  Sustainable Growth" of the FP7 Project FINESS

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at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 342
25 February 2009

Berlin Lunchtime Meeting Carbon Taxes: Good for the Planet, not bad for Economy

In a recent study supported by the Anglo-German Foundation, researchers from the London School of Economics (LSE) show that carbon taxes can reduce pollution without harming the economy.
 
Siegfried Gelbhaar ist Privatdozent an der Universität Trier und Referent für Umweltpolitik der FDP-Bundestagsfraktion. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte umfassen neben der Umweltökonomik, die Finanzwissenschaft und Wirtschaftspolitik sowie die Institutionenökonomik der öffentlichen Finanzen.

Keynote Speaker
  • Prof. Dr. Claudia Kemfert, DIW Berlin
  • Dr. Ralf Martin
    Dr. Siegfried Gelbhaar
Time
12 - 2 PM
Location
DIW Berlin (Schumpeter Saal) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
12 February 2009

Seminar IO Seminar 2008/2009

Joachim Henkel, TU Munich:
"Peer Influence in Network Markets: An Empirical and Theoretical Analysis"

The DIW Berlin „Information Society and Competition“ and “Innovation, Manufacturing, Service” joint seminar focuses on advances in applied microeconomics, industrial organization and economic policy issues that centre around the network economy.

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Time
18:00
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
05 February 2009

Seminar IO Seminar 2008/2009

Juan de Dios Enrique Rosellón Díaz, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), Lomas de Santa Fe, Mexico:
"A Dynamic Incentive Mechanism for Transmission Expansion in Electricity Networks"

The DIW Berlin „Information Society and Competition“ and “Innovation, Manufacturing, Service” joint seminar focuses on advances in applied microeconomics, industrial organization and economic policy issues that centre around the network economy.

Time
16:30
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
05 February 2009

Seminar IO Seminar 2008/2009

Ulrich Schwalbe, Universität Hohenheim:
"Price Guarantees as Facilitating Practice – A Survey"

The DIW Berlin „Information Society and Competition“ and “Innovation, Manufacturing, Service” joint seminar focuses on advances in applied microeconomics, industrial organization and economic policy issues that centre around the network economy.

Time
18:00
Location
DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
05 to 06 Dec 2008

Workshop Households in Conflict Network's Fourth Annual Workshop
2008

Key Focus: The relationship between micro and macro-level conflict processes.
Yale University, USA

Closing date for submissions is 30 September 2008.

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28 to 29 Nov 2008

Workshop Macroeconometric Workshop 2008

The aim of the workshop is to bring together academic researchers and practitioners to pro-mote and exchange ideas in the field of macroeconometric modelling.

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Location
DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
25 to 26 Nov 2008

Event Economics of Education
With Prof. Steve Machin (University College London)

The 2008 BeNA Lecture Series will be held by Steve Machin. Steve Machin is Professor of Economics at University College London, Director of the Centre for the Economics of Education, and Research Director at the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics (LSE). He is also one of the Editors of The Economic Journal.

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Location
DIW Berlin (Schumpeter Saal) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
10 to 11 October 2008

Workshop Workshop on Industrial Organization and Antitrust Policy

DIW Berlin, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität Bonn

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DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
09 to 11 July 2008

Conference SOEP 2008
8th International Socio-Economic Panel User Conference

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Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin Raum B002/3 Reichpietschufer 50 10785 Berlin
18 June 2008

Berlin Lunchtime Meeting Management Practices: Company Leaders Often Overestimate Leadership Skills

Dr Christos Genakos, Cambridge University and Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at LSE London School of Economics

Wednesday, 18 June, 12:00 to 2:00 p.m.

DIW Berlin, Mohrenstr. 58, 10117 Berlin
Schumpeter Hall, First Floor

Comment: NN
Chair: Dr Ray Cunningham, London, Director Anglo-German Foundation

CEP's global survey of over 4,000 firms reveals huge variations in the quality of management practices and shows that

• German managers tend to overestimate their own management skills compared with their company’s actual performance
• German firms that most critically self-evaluate their management practices are the best run companies in reality
• 15 per cent  of German firms are managed worse than the average firm in China and India
• family ownership and the traditional practice of primogeniture – handing down the CEO position to the eldest son – are associated with particularly bad management practices
• private equity firms, in Germany better known as Heuschrecken (locusts), are better managed than companies with other ownership forms
• the productivity gap between US and European companies seems to be in reality a management gap
The global study by the Centre for Economic Performance is supported by the Anglo-German Foundation based on its programme Creating Sustainable Growth in Europe (csge).

Christos Genakos is a Lecturer, Fellow and Director of Studies in Economics at Selwyn College, Cambridge University. He is also a research economist at the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) in the London School of Economics. His research focuses on Industrial Organization and Applied Microeconomics. Recent work includes welfare analysis of mergers in the PC industry, examining foreclosure incentives in the PC and server operating systems market, estimation of the “waterbed” effect in mobile telephony and evaluation of international management practices.

Time
12 - 14
Location
DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
13 to 14 June 2008

Conference Conference on Market Power in Input Markets, Vertical Restraints, and Competition Policy

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DIW Berlin (Schumpeter Saal) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
28 May 2008

Invited Lecture Malaria: Disease Impact and Long Run Income Differences?
Lecture by Professor Christian Zimmermann

What is the economic impact of malaria? This is a difficult question to answer in the absence of any reliable data and in the presence of potentially enormous endogeneity issues. This paper uses theory and calibration to investigate what we can learn about the cost of malaria. We also offer some policy advice. We use a stochastic dynamic general equilibrium model with heterogeneous agent augmented with epidemiologic features. This exercise also demonstrates how theory can be helpful in the absense of reliable data.

Prof. Zimmermann is based at the Department of Economics at the University of Connecticut and presently guest researcher at DIW Berlin.

Time
4 pm - 6 pm
Location
DIW Berlin (Schumpeter Saal) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
18 April 2008

Event Canadian Economic Performance over the Past 25 Years and Beyond

Keynote Speaker
  • Prof. Dr. Marcel Boyer, Université de Montréal
Time
10.00 - 11.30
Location
Canadian Embassy Berlin Leipziger Platz 17 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
external
ingrid.weyher@international.gc.ca
11 April 2008

Conference 3. Wissenschaftlicher Roundtable "Informationsgesellschaft und Wettbewerb"
Bundling und Wettbewerb: Marktmachtmissbrauch oder Kundeninteresse?

  • Ökonomische und juristische Aspekte von Koppelungsgeschäften
  • Bundling in der wettbewerbspolitischen Praxis und aus der Unternehmensperspektive
  • Bundling auf Softwaremärkten

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Location
DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
14 March 2008

Workshop Drivers and Impacts of ICT Adoption
– A Sectoral Perspective

The workshop will be chaired by Hasan Alkas, European Commission.
Registration is free of charge and can be made by e-mail Ms Sibylle Kremser (skremser@diw.de).

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DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
29 February 2008

29 February 2008 to 1 March 2008 Workshop ESCIRRU Workshop 2008

Der Forschungsworkshop des durch Mittel des sechsten Rahmenprogramms der EU finanzierten und vom DIW Berlin geleiteten Forschungsprojektes "Economic and Social Consequences of Industrial Restructuring in Russia and Ukraine" (ESCIRRU) findet in den Institutsräumen an der Mohrenstraße statt. Erwartet werden Wissenschaftler von acht europäischen Partnerinstituten aus Großbritannien, Italien, Polen, Russland, Ungarn und der Ukraine, um Zwischenergebnisse ihrer Forschungsarbeiten zu präsentieren. Für das DIW Berlin wird in der Abteilung Weltwirtschaft geforscht. Das Themenspektrum umfasst Analysen zu Firmenrestrukturierungen, Arbeitsmärkten, sozialen Sicherungssystemen und Armut in Russland und der Ukraine.


The research workshop of the EU funded international research project "Economic and Social Consequences of Industrial Restructuring in Russia and Ukraine" (ESCIRRU) will take place at DIW Berlin in late February 2008. Researchers from partner institutes in Hungary, Italy, Poland, Russia, UK and Ukraine as well as researchers from the Department of International Economics at DIW Berlin will present intermediate results from the research agenda covering labor market and firm restructuring, social security and poverty in Russia and Ukraine.

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Location
DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
13 to 15 Dec 2007

Event 2nd CESSA conference on natural gas and nuclear power
European energy supply security in a carbon constrained world

The 2nd CESSA conference on natural gas and nuclear power will be hosted by the Electricity Policy Research Group at Cambridge University.

CESSA is a European forum that studies the “economics and policy interfaces for gas and nuclear in the context of energy security of supply and a future hydrogen economy”. It brings together researchers and energy stakeholders of the natural gas, nuclear and hydrogen industries. It aims at developing recommendations for the European level through consensus between academics and stakeholders.

DIW Berlin hosted the 1st CESSA conference "Natural Gas, Nuclear Energy, and Security of Supply", jointly with the Chair of Energy Economics at Dresden University of Technology and Technische Universität Berlin.

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10 to 11 Dec 2007

Workshop HiCN's Third Annual Workshop
Micro-Level Conflict Processes and Institutions

Violent conflicts are a substantial barrier to economic development. Almost one third of the world's population lives in conflict-affected low income countries. Yet little is known about the effects of conflict on household behaviour,  household welfare and poverty. The Households in Conflict Network (HiCN) brings together researchers interested in the micro-economic and econometric analysis of the relationship between violent conflict and household behaviour.

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Location
Institute of Development Studies, Brighton University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9RE Brighton, UK
07 to 08 Dec 2007

Workshop Macroeconometric Workshop 2007

The aim of the workshop is to bring together academic researchers and practitioners to pro-mote and exchange ideas in the field of macroeconometric modelling.

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Location
DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
03 Dec 2007

DIW Berlin Seminar An assessment of the economic cost of hurricane Katrina and consequences for climate change

Keynote Speaker
  • Stéphane Hallegatte, Centre International de Recherche sur l'Environnement et le Développement and Ecole Nationale de la Météorologie, Météo-France
Time
10.00 Uhr
Location
DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
15 to 16 Nov 2007

Workshop Theorie und Anwendungsmöglichkeiten moderner ökonometrischer Matchingmethoden / "Short Course on Econometric Evaluations with Matching Methods"
Berliner Netzwerk Arbeitsmarkt (BeNA)

Ziel dieses Kurses ist es die Teilnehmer mit der Theorie und den Anwendungsmöglichkeiten moderner ökonometrischer Matchingmethoden vertraut zu machen. Es wird 1,5 Tage an Vorlesungen zu verschiedenen Aspekten ökonmetrischer Matchingschätzungen geben, die mit praktischen Beispielen veranschaulicht werden. Prof. Michael Lechner von der Universität St. Gallen wird diese vierte Vortragsreihe halten.

Das Berliner Netzwerk Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA) wurde im Jahr 2004 als Zusammenschluss junger, in Berlin beschäftigter ArbeitsmarktforscherInnen gegründet und versteht sich als Forum für die Diskussion und Entwicklung von Projekten auf dem Feld der Arbeitsmarktforschung. Zurzeit sind das Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin), die Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU) und das Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB) aktiv am Netzwerk beteiligt. Weitere Kooperationen mit der Freien Universität Berlin und der Technischen Universität Berlin sind geplant. Im Mittelpunkt der Arbeit des Netzwerkes steht das Berliner Arbeitsmarktseminar, das allen Forschern offen steht, die einem der kooperierenden Institute angehören.

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Keynote Speaker
  • Prof. Michael Lechner, Universität St. Gallen
Location
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin Raum B002/3 Reichpietschufer 50 10785 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 354
01 Nov 2007

Berlin Lunchtime Meeting Geschlechtergerechtigkeit und Arbeitsbelastung
Überraschende Evidenz von Zeitverwendungserhebungen

Die Veranstaltung findet in deutscher Sprache statt.
Referent: Prof. Michael C. Burda, Ph.D. (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Kommentar: Tristana Moore, BBC-Korrespondentin
Moderator: Dr. Hilmar Schneider, IZA, Bonn

Bitte beachten – neuer Ort!

Zeitverwendungsdaten aus 27 Ländern lassen Interessantes über die Geschlechterverteilung der Gesamtarbeitszeit – die Summe aus Markt- und unentgeltlicher Haushaltsarbeit – schließen. In reichen, nicht-katholischen Ländern auf vier Kontinenten leisten Frauen und Männer im Mittelwert die gleiche Arbeitszeit – gemessen an Minuten am Tag. Dieser Fakt – der unter Soziologen bekannt aber unerklärt ist – ist frappierend, vor allem im Hinblick auf die große Varianz der individuell geleisteten Gesamtarbeitszeit. Ferner hängt die Geschlechterungleichheit der Arbeitsverteilung im internationalen Vergleich negativ mit der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung zusammen – in den ärmsten Ländern arbeiten Frauen erheblich mehr als Männer. Detaillierte Daten aus Deutschland und den USA belegen, dass die Gleichheit der Arbeitsbelastung nicht am Ehe- bzw. Familienstand liegt, denn diese Faktoren erklären nur einen geringen Anteil der beträchtlichen Variation der Arbeitszeit innerhalb von Haushalten. Eine Theorie der sozialen Normen, deren Kraft mit steigendem Wohlstand zunimmt, erscheint eher geeignet, diese überraschende Regelmäßigkeit zu erklären.

Michael C. Burda ist Professor für Volkswirtschaftslehre und leitet seit 1993 als Direktor das Instituts für Wirtschaftstheorie II an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte liegen in der Makroökonomie und der Arbeitsmarktforschung.

Hilmar Schneider ist seit Juli 2001 Direktor für Arbeitsmarktpolitik am IZA, Bonn. Darüber hinaus ist er seit 2002 Research Affiliate des DIW Berlin. 2006 wurde er zum Mitglied im Rat für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsdaten ernannt.

Wir freuen uns auf Ihre Teilnahme und bitten Sie, Ihre verbindliche Anmeldung bis spätestens 31. Oktober 2007 via E-Mail an events@diw.de zu senden.

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Time
12:00 - 14:00
Location
DIW Berlin (Schumpeter Saal) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
26 October 2007

Conference 2. Wissenschaftlicher Roundtable "Informationsgesellschaft und Wettbewerb"
Praxistauglichkeit des More Economic Approach für die Wettbewerbspolitik

  • Der More Economic Approach – Theoretisches Modell oder Verbesserung der Rechtspraxis?
  • Potenzielle Ansätze für die Integration des More Economic Approach in der Gesetzgebung, Rechtsauslegung und Rechtsprechung
  • Rechtliche Umsetzbarkeit des More Economic Approachs in der Praxis: Das Microsoft EU-Wettbewerbsverfahren

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Location
DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
08 to 12 October 2007

Workshop SOEP@CAMPUS2007
Analysemöglichkeiten mit dem Sozio-oekonomischen Panel

Viele sozialwissenschaftliche Forschungsfragen lassen sich nur mit Längsschnittdaten untersuchen. Da der Umgang mit entsprechenden Datensätzen und Analyseverfahren anspruchsvoll, in der universitären Methodenausbildung aber nicht überall fest verankert ist, findet vom 8.10.-12.10.07 an der Universität Duisburg-Essen ein Workshop statt. Die Veranstaltung richtet sich an Studierende und Nachwuchswissenschaftler aus den Fächern Soziologie, Ökonomie, Politikwissenschaft und Psychologie.

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05 to 06 October 2007

Conference 6th Conference on Applied Infrastructure Research ("INFRADAY")

6th Conference on Applied Infrastructure Research ("INFRADAY")
"Supply Security and Reliability of European Infrastructure - Efficient Investment, Maintenance, and Operation between Liberalization and Regulation"

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Location
Technische Universität (TU) Berlin Straße des 17. Juni 135/136, 10623 Berlin Berlin, GERMANY
05 to 06 October 2007

Conference INFRADAY: 6th Conference
6th Conference on Applied Infrastructure Research

It is a forum of debate between academia, practitioners, and policy makers. This year’s topic is “Supply Security and Reliability of European Infrastructure - Efficient Investment, Maintenance, and Operation between Liberalization and Regulation”. The sectoral foci are transport, energy, telecommunication & internet, water and the waste sector.

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Location
Technische Universität (TU) Berlin Straße des 17. Juni 135/136, 10623 Berlin Berlin, GERMANY
Contact(s)
external
conference@wip.tu-berlin.de
28 to 29 Sept 2007

Workshop Workshop on Industrial Organization and Antitrust Policy

DIW Berlin, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt

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Location
DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
27 to 28 Sept 2007

Industrietagung Industrial Conference / Industrietagung Herbst 2007

The Industrial Conference is the traditional institutionalised forum for exchange between the DIW Berlin and the business sector. Since October 1960, the forum has met twice a year - May and November.
Approximately one hundred representatives of enterprises, business associations and economic sciences participate regularly. Since the the Federal Government moved to Berlin, the conference has been attracting increasing numbers of participants from politics. The conference understands itself to be a platform for dialogs on different viewpoints and opinions.

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Location
DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
25 Sept 2007

Conference Europe Meets Asia
Regional Cooperation and Integration Ten Years After the Asian Financial Crisis

On the tenth anniversary from the start of the Asian financial crisis, this conference aims to review the emergence of regionalism in Asia and its relevance for Europe. The first session will discuss how the crisis has triggered a regional response in Asia and present the current model of regional economic interdependence. The second and third sessions will focus respectively on issues of macroeconomic policy and financial and monetary integration. The fourth session will analyze the challenges ahead for Asian integration and discuss how to cope with internal differences, based on the European experience. Finally a panel discussion on “Europe meets Asia” will conclude the conference.

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Location
DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
06 to 07 Sept 2007

Conference PEGNet Conference 2007
Researchers Meet Practitioners

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Location
GTZ, Berlin Reichpietschufer 20, 10785 Berlin Berlin, Germany
02 to 04 Sept 2007

Conference International Telecommunications Society (ITS)
18th European Regional Conference in Istanbul, Turkey

Telecommunication markets are continuing to grow at a rapid pace. However, this growth is associated with important challenges for company managers, policy makers, regulators and researchers alike. The 18th European Regional ITS Conference will focus on the most pressing developments and stimulate discussions on how to enhance policy making, research approaches, laws and regulation in order to improve market performance and consumer welfare.

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02 to 07 Sept 2007

Workshop International Research Workshop "Methods for Ph.D."

Empirical research is seeking through methododical processes to discover, hopefully, non-trivial facts and insights. Beside choosing a topic and grounding a research idea in theory research is gathering, analysing, and presentations in scientific contexts to add results to the body of knowledge not only of one‘s own but also to that of others.

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Location
Akademie Sankelmark near Flensburg
27 June 2007

Berlin Lunchtime Meeting The Challenges of Global Capital Market Integration
How Exchange Rates, Policies and Institutions Matter

Chris Meissner, Ph.D., University of Cambridge
"The Challenges of Global Capital Market Integration: How Exchange Rates, Policies and Institutions Matter"
Moderator: Prof. Dr. Georg Meran, Vice-President (DIW Berlin)

Keynote Speaker
  • We look forward to your participation. To register, please send an e-mail to events@diw.de. We ask you to confirm your reservation.
Location
dbb forum berlin Friedrichstr. 169-170 / Französische Straße, 10117 Berlin
21 to 22 June 2007

Workshop „Dateninfrastruktur - Forschung - Politikberatung“

Workshop, der eine Brücke schlagen will zwischen den Eckpfeilern Dateninfrastruktur, Forschung und Politikberatung

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Location
Tagungszentrum im Haus der Bundespressekonferenz Schiffbauerdamm 40 / Ecke Reinhardtstraße 55, 10117 Berlin Berlin
12 to 14 June 2007

Conference ECINEQ 2007: 2nd meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality

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31 May 2007

31 May 2007 to 1 June 2007 Conference CESSA conference
Natural Gas, Nuclear Energy, and Security of Supply

CESSA is a European forum that studies the “economics and policy interfaces for gas and nuclear in the context of energy security of supply and a future hydrogen economy”. It brings together researchers and energy stakeholders of the natural gas, nuclear and hydrogen industries. It aims at developing recommendations for the European level through consensus between academics and stakeholders. Confirmed speakers at the 1st CESSA conference include Paul Joskow (MIT), Jeff Makholm (NERA), and Jacques de Jong (CIEP).

Keynote Speaker
  • Christian von Hirschhausen
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30 May 2007

Berlin Lunchtime Meeting Lessons from Electricity Sector Restructuring in the US and Elsewhere
Perspectives for Europe

Moderator: Prof. Dr. Georg Meran, Vice-President (German Institute for Economic Research, DIW Berlin)

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Keynote Speaker
  • Prof. Richard Green (University of Birmingham, Director of the Institute for Energy Research and Policy)
Time
12:00 - 14:00
Location
DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
27 April 2007

Berlin Lunchtime Meeting Mindestlohn und Kombilohn – Die Bekämpfung von Unfug mit Unfug

Comment: Hannes Koch, tageszeitung

Keynote Speaker
  • Dr. Hilmar Schneider, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit, IZA Bonn
Location
DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
25 April 2007

Berlin Lunchtime Meeting Lösungsansätze für mehr Beschäftigung im Niedriglohnbereich

Comment: Dr. Hilmar Schneider, IZA, Bonn
Moderator: Prof. Dr. Georg Meran, Vice-President (DIW Berlin)

Keynote Speaker
  • Prof. Dr. Peter Bofinger, Universität Würzburg
Location
DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
28 March 2007

Berlin Lunchtime Meeting Tax Benefits and Employment – an Anglo-German Comparison

Comment: Mike Brewer, Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), London
Moderator: Dr. Regina Vogel, Deputy Director (Anglo-German Foundation)

Keynote Speaker
  • Prof. Dr. Viktor Steiner, DIW Berlin and FU Berlin
Location
DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
28 March 2007

Berlin Lunchtime Meeting In or Out of the Euro Area: Does it Matter? An Evidence Based Analysis of the Trade Effects of the Euro

Keynote Speaker
  • Manh Ha Duong, DIW Berlin
  • Juniorprof. Dr. Ulrich Fritsche, DIW Berlin
  • Prof. Richard E. Baldwin, Ph.D. (Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva and CEPR).
Time
12:00 - 14:00
Location
DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
26 to 30 March 2007

Event Renewables will never solve the world's energy problems.
How will we secure the future supply of energy?

The Joint Debate is organised jointly by The Economist, the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) and the Alfred Herrhausen Society (AHS). 

Keynote Speaker
  • Cathérine Müller, DIW Berlin
  • Prof. Dr. Viktor Steiner, DIW Berlin
  • Mike Brewer, Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS),(Referent extern)
Time
12.00 bis 19.00
Location
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin Raum B002/3 Reichpietschufer 50 10785 Berlin
28 February 2007

Berlin Lunchtime Meeting Gesundheitsreform: die eigenen Ziele klar verfehlt!

Comment: Jens Spahn, MdB
Moderator: Prof. Dr. Georg Meran, Vice-President (DIW Berlin)

Keynote Speaker
  • Prof. Dr. Friedrich Breyer, Universität Konstanz, DIW Berlin
Location
DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
31 January 2007

Berlin Lunchtime Meeting Die energiepolitische Agenda der deutschen EU-Ratspräsidentschaft
Chancen zur Gestaltung der Zukunftsfähigkeit Europas nutzen

Comment: Prof. Dr. Claudia Kemfert
Moderator: Dr. Regina Vogel, Deputy Director (Anglo-German Foundation)

Keynote Speaker
  • Dr. Joachim Pfeiffer, MdB
Location
DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
30 Nov 2006

30 November 2006 to 1 December 2006 Workshop Macroeconometric Workshop 2006

The workshop will be held at the German Institute for Economic Research, November, 30 - December, 1, 2006. The aim of the workshop is to bring together academic researchers and practitioners to promote and exchange ideas in the field of macroeconometric modelling.

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Location
DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
29 Nov 2006

Berlin Lunchtime Meeting The British Banking System: A good role model for Germany?

Comment: Ulrich von Kenne, Association of German Banks
Moderator: Dr. Regina Vogel (Deputy Director, Anglo-German Foundation)

Location
DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
20 to 21 Nov 2006

Industrietagung Herbsttagung 2006

Die Förderung der Kommunikation zwischen Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft ist das Ziel der Industrietagung, die von der Vereinigung der Freunde des DIW Berlin unterstützt wird. Als anerkanntes und ausgezeichnetes Forum für Experten, die interessiert sind an Einschätzungen der aktuellen Entwicklung der Weltwirtschaft, ihrer Regionen und Branchen sowie den sich daraus ergebenden Konsequenzen für die deutsche Wirtschaft, wird die Tagung seit 1960 zweimal jährlich in Berlin veranstaltet.

17 to 18 Nov 2006

Conference 2006 Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
Ressource Policies: Effectiveness, Efficiency, and Equity

The sustainable use of natural resources has been a challenge for environmental policies from their very beginning. Without an appropriate institutional setting, scarce resources such as water, materials, energy sources, land, etc. are overused, following the infamous logic of the tragedy of the commons. Related to this are issues of effective resource policies, efficient resource consumption, and equity on a global scale. The Berlin Conference Steering Committee and the Environmental Policy and Global Change section of the German Political Science Association and its partners invite papers for the 2006 Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, to be held in Berlin on 17-18 November 2006.

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31 August 2006

31 August 2006 to 1 September 2006 Conference Unternehmen und Arbeitsmarkt in Bewegung - Was gewinnt die Forschung durch amtliche Mikrodaten?

Neben der Diskussion der inhaltlichen Fragen möchte die Konferenz aufzeigen, welchen Beitrag die Forschungsdatenzentren mit ihren Datenbeständen für diese Forschungsgebiete leisten können. Vervollständigt wird das Programm durch einen Blick in das nahe Ausland. Wissenschaftler aus Dänemark und den Niederlanden berichten über ihre Arbeit mit amtlichen Mikrodaten. Die Veranstaltung wird gemeinsam vom Wissenschaftszentrum für Sozialforschung Berlin (WZB), dem Deutschen Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW) und dem Forschungsdatenzentrum der Statistischen Landesämter durchgeführt.

Location
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin Raum B002/3 Reichpietschufer 50 10785 Berlin
22 to 24 August 2006

Conference International Telecommunications Society (ITS)
17th European Regional Conference in Amsterdam, The Netherlands

The Conference will focus on next generation telecommunications infrastructure and services and will be hosted by the University of Amsterdam.

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28 June 2006

Berlin Lunchtime Meeting In or Out of the Euro Area: Does it Matter?
An Evidence Based Analysis of the Trade Effects of the Euro

Keynote Speaker
  • Prof. Richard E. Baldwin, Ph.D., Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva and CEPR
Location
DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
24 May 2006

Berlin Lunchtime Meeting Energiepreisrisiken und Auswirkungen auf die Europäische Energiepolitik

Comment: Judy Dempsey, International Herald Tribune

Keynote Speaker
  • Prof. Dr. Claudia Kemfert, DIW Berlin and Humboldt University Berlin
Location
DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
27 April 2006

Berlin Lunchtime Meeting Mindestlohn und Kombilohn – Die Bekämpfung von Unfug mit Unfug.

Moderation: Regina Vogel (Deutsch-Britische Stiftung)
Kommentar: Hannes Koch (die tageszeitung)

Keynote Speaker
  • Hilmar Schneider (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit)
Time
12:00 - 14:00
Location
dbb forum berlin Friedrichstr. 169-170 / Französische Straße, 10117 Berlin
30 March 2006

Berlin Lunchtime Meeting The Economic Impact of Bird Flu

Comment: Moritz Döbler, Der Tagesspiegel

Keynote Speaker
  • Dr. Boris Augurzky, RWI Essen
Location
DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
06 to 07 March 2006

Workshop SOEP Workshop

Keynote Speaker
  • Patricia Alvarez-Plata, DIW Berlin
  • Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Alfred Steinherr, DIW Berlin
Time
10:00 - 17:00
Location
DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
25 January 2006

Berlin Lunchtime Meeting European Energy Supply Security Options for Natural Gas – Russian Pipelines vs. Overseas Liquefied Natural Gas?

Comment: Andreas Mihm, Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung

Keynote Speaker
  • Prof. Dr. Christian von Hirschhausen, Technische Universität Dresden
Location
DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
18 January 2006

DIW Berlin Seminar Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Datenverknüpfung
Die prototypische Verknüpfung des SOEP mit 'Medien Tenor' Daten

Keynote Speaker
  • Dr. Jörg Dittmann, ZUMA Zentrum für Umfragen, Methoden und Analysen, Mannheim
Time
10:00 - 12:00
Location
DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin