Veranstaltungen

Seminar Fiscal Implications of Public Employee Pension Promises in the United States
Seminar in Public Economics

Referent

• Josh Rau, Stanford University homepage

Zeit

15.15 - 16.45

Ort

DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin

Ansprechpartner
im DIW Berlin

Peter Haan

Tel.: +49 30 89789 165

Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen The Incidence of Social Security Contributions - Empirical Evidence for Germany

This paper exploits an increase of the East German taxable maximum of health insurance to analyse the incidence of social security contributions. A difference-in-differences approach is used to estimate the effects on yearly changes in gross wages. Employees earning somewhat less than the taxable maximum serve as control group. I find that considerable shifting in any direction can be rejected.

Referent

• Michael Neumann, DIW Berlin

Zeit

12:30 - 13:30

Ort

DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin

Ansprechpartner
im DIW Berlin

Patricia Gallego Granados

Tel.: +49 30 89789 410

Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen Health risks and insurance against work incapacity over the life-cycle

This paper proposes a structural life-cycle model to analyze the links between individuals' health, labor market participation, wealth accumulation, and early retirement. I rely on the framework of a dynamic programming discrete choice model which is estimated using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study. A sequential Expectation-Maximization algorithm is used to obtain good starting values for a subsequent full information maximum likelihood estimation. A policy analysis focuses on the early retirement option of the German statutory pension scheme which constitutes an insurance against work incapacity. I simulate scenarios where health shocks do or do not occur at different ages during the life-cycle for individuals with differing endowments at age 40. A comparison of expected consumption paths and net present values of expected life-cycle incomes between the scenarios sheds some light on health-related poverty risks and the magnitude of risks being uninsured by the German early retirement scheme. Furthermore, I investigate a counterfactual policy scenario where reductions on the pension benefits of early retirees are abolished for individuals who are in bad health.

Referent

• Daniel Kemptner, DIW Berlin

Zeit

12:30-13:30

Ort

DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin

Ansprechpartner
im DIW Berlin

Patricia Gallego Granados

Tel.: +49 30 89789 410

Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen Examining the Structure of Spatial Health Effects using Hierarchical Bayes Models

Abstract

This paper makes use of Hierarchical Bayes Models to model and estimate spatial health effects. We focus on Germany and combine rich individual-level household panel data with administrative county-level information to estimate spatial county-level health dependencies. As dependent variable, we use the generic, continuous, and quasi-objective SF12 health measure. Our findings reveal strong and highly significant spatial dependencies and clusters. The strong and systematic county-level impact is comparable to an age effect on health of up to 30 years. Even 20 years after the peaceful German reunification, we detect a clear spatial East-West health pattern that equals an age impact on health of up to 15 life years.

Referent

• Peter Eibich, DIW Berlin
• in Zusammenarbeit mit Nicolas R. Ziebarth (Cornell University)

Zeit

12:30-13:30

Ort

DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin

Ansprechpartner
im DIW Berlin

Patricia Gallego Granados

Tel.: +49 30 89789 410

Workshop SOEPcampus at datalab2012@Universität Bielefeld
"Analysepotentiale sozialwissenschaftlicher Forschungsdaten - Längsschnittliche und kontextbezogene Daten"

Die Veranstaltung findet vom 24. bis 26. September 2012 an der Universität Bielefeld statt. Vom 15. Juli 2012 an können Sie sich anmelden! Die Veranstaltung richtet sich insbesondere an DoktorandInnen und NachwuchswissenschaftlerInnen, aber auch an Studierende aus den Fächern Soziologie, Ökonomie, Politikwissenschaft und Psychologie.

Im Rahmen des SOEP-Moduls werden neben einer Einführung in den Datensatz viele praktische Übungen zur Aufbereitung von SOEP-Daten angeboten, außerdem wird die Veranstaltung begleitet von ExpertInnenvorträgen zum Thema Paneldaten. In den computerbezogenen Lehreinheiten wird ausschließlich die Statistik-Software STATA verwendet. TeilnehmerInnen ohne STATA-Kenntnisse wird deshalb eine Einführungsveranstaltung am 24. September 2012 angeboten.

Zudem setzt der Workshop Kenntnisse in multivariaten Analyseverfahren voraus.

Ausführliche Informationen zum Workshop sowie die Online-Anmeldung finden Sie hier.

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Ort

Universität Bielefeld

Applied Micro Seminar The Causal Effect of Education on Health: What is the Role of Health Behaviors?

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Referent

• Rudolf Winter-Ebmer, University of Linz, Austria

Zeit

13:15-14:45

Ort

DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin

Ansprechpartner
im DIW Berlin

Katharina Wrohlich

Tel.: +49 30 89789 164

Konferenz 10th International German Socio-Economic Panel User Conference
SOEP2012

The 10th International German Socio-Economic Panel User Conference (SOEP2012) will be held in Berlin, June 28-29, 2012 at DIW Berlin & Hertie-School of Governance and at the Headquarter of the Leibniz Association (WGL). 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 for all disciplines (e.g. economics, demography, geography, political sciences, public health, psychology, and sociology) who use the SOEP or the German 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 Speakers

• Shelly Lundberg, Leonard Broom Endowed Chair in Demography at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Bergen, Norway
  
  Janet Gornick, Director of the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), and Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY)

Ansprechpartner
im DIW Berlin

Christine Kurka

Tel.: +49 30 89789 283

Workshop Riester-Rente: Grundlegende Reform dringend geboten!?

Der Wochenbericht des DIW Berlin 47/2011 „Riester-Rente: Grundlegende Reformen dringend geboten“ hat eine breite, zum Teil durchaus hitzige Diskussion über den Zustand des Riester-Sparens ausgelöst. Ein Anlass für das DIW Berlin im Rahmen der vom Institut in loser Folge zu kontrovers diskutierten Themen aus der Verbraucherpolitik und -forschung veranstalteten Workshops Verbraucher- und Rentenexperten aus Politik, Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft einzuladen, sich über die Riester-Rente engagiert, offen und nach der Chatham-House-Rule auszutauschen.

Impulsvorträge umfassen die Marktorganisation der Riester-Rentenversicherung und die Auswirkungen auf Riester-Sparer. Abgesteckt werden sollen zudem Chancen und Grenzen von Politikmaßnahmen, die sich auf die Riester-Produkte, das Riester-Sparen und die kapi-talgedeckte private Altersvorsorge beziehen. Walter Riester selbst wird zur Kritik an der Riester-Rente Stellung nehmen und auf Reformvorschläge eingehen.

Neben den Vorträgen wird es ausreichend Raum geben für Diskussionen mit den Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmern an dem Workshop.

Die Teilnahme an dem Workshop ist nur nach Anmeldung möglich. Die Zahl der TeilnehmerInnen ist auf 35 Personen begrenzt.

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Referenten

• Gerd Billen, Vorstand der Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband (vzbv), Berlin
  Dr. Johannes Geyer, Wissenschaftler am DIW Berlin
  MinDir Dr. Christian Grugel, Leiter der Abteilung Verbraucherpolitik des Bundesministeriums für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Verbraucherschutz (BMELV), Berlin
  Kornelia Hagen, Wissenschaftlerin am DIW Berlin
  Axel Kleinlein, Vorstandsvorsitzender des Bundes der Versicherten (BdV), Hamburg
  Dr. Johannes Leinert, Projektleiter beim infas Institut für angewandte Sozialwissenschaft, Bonn
  Walter Riester, Bundesminister a. D.
  Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Bert Rürup, Vorsitzender des Kuratoriums des DIW Berlin
  Dr. Peter Schwark, Mitglied der Hauptgeschäftsführung des Gesamtverbandes der Deutschen Versicherungswirtschaft (GDV), Berlin
  Prof. Dr. Gert G. Wagner, Vorstandsvorsitzender des DIW Berlin

Zeit

09:00 bis 14:45 Uhr

Ort

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

Ansprechpartner
im DIW Berlin

Sibylle Kremser

Tel.: +49 30 89789 673

SOEP Brown Bag Seminar SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Changes in the Patterns of Poverty Duration in Germany Over 1992-2010*

Despite the introduction of major social policy reforms, since the mid-1980s Germany has been experiencing a steady increase in poverty rates among general population. It gave a boost to a great number of studies trying to explain why it happened. By applying decomposition techniques they have been exploring what kind of changes in household structures and labor market conditions of households could have potentially contributed to the dramatic increase in poverty rates over the recent two decades. At the same time, the literature available in the field does not shed light on how poverty duration has been evolving over time as well as what kind of forces might be responsible for it.

Hence, this paper aims at exploring and explaining changes in the patterns of poverty duration in Germany over 1992-2010. To be more precise, the following set of questions will be addressed: (1) How the distribution of time spent by individuals in poverty evolved over 1992-2010? (2) Have the probabilities to exit (re-entry) poverty for spells with different durations changed over the period of interest and, if yes, how? (3) Which socio-economic and demographic characteristic of individuals and their households became more important determinants of poverty exits (re-entries) and which ones lost their significance with time? (4) What kind of social and economic policies introduced in 1992-2010 can be potentially responsible for the observed changes in the patterns of poverty duration?
The primary method applied for the empirical part of the paper is discrete-time survival analysis based on the joint modeling of poverty entries and exits, controlling for unobserved heterogeneity and initial condition problem. In order to capture changes in poverty durations over time and explore potential contributions of different forces to these changes a five-year moving window is created and used for the analysis. It permits to investigate when exactly a change occurred and what forces might be potentially responsible for it.

The data for the analysis is derived from the German Socio-Economic Panel. The waves covering 1990-2010 are used for the sample construction with the purpose to incorporate information on both Western and Eastern parts of Germany into analysis.

Referent

• Iryna Kyzyma (CEPS/INSTEAD, BIGSSS)

Zeit

12:30 - 13:30

Ort

DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin

Ansprechpartner
im DIW Berlin

Elisabeth Bügelmayer

Tel.: +49 30 89789 344

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

Zeit

6.30-8.00 pm

Ort

Humboldt Universität Berlin Room 125 Spandauer Str. 1 10178 Berlin

Ansprechpartner
im DIW Berlin

Ronny Freier

Tel.: +49 30 89789 158

Ansprechpartner
extern

Davud Rostam-Afschar, FU Berlin

Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen 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.

Referent

• Holger Lüthen, DIW Berlin

Zeit

12:30-13:30

Ort

DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin

Ansprechpartner
im DIW Berlin

Daniel Kemptner

Tel.: +49 30 89789 517

Konferenz Die affektive Dimension sozialer Ungleichheit: Sozialwissenschaftliche und psychologische Perspektiven 

Die Soziologie der Emotionen postuliert weitreichende Zusammenhänge zwischen sozialer Struktur, Kultur und Emotionen, wobei Emotionen sowohl als von der sozialen Umwelt abhängige Variable betrachtet werden als auch deren Funktion für das Soziale hervorgehoben wird. Die Positionierung in der Gemeinschaft, der Grad der gesellschaftlichen Integration sowie die Qualität und Dichte der Beziehungen beeinflussen das Erleben von Emotionen nachhaltig. Umgekehrt wirken emotionales Empfinden sowie insbesondere die Beherrschbarkeit der emotionalen Gefühle ebenfalls auf die genannten Attribute von (sozioökonomischem) Status.

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Zeit

10:00 - 18:00

Ort

DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin

Ansprechpartner
im DIW Berlin

Jürgen Schupp

Tel.: +49 30 89789 238

Ansprechpartner
extern

Christian von Scheve, FU Berlin

Konferenz Development Economics and Policy

Die diesjährige Jahrestagung "Development Economics and Policy" findet am 24. und 25. Juni 2011 in Berlin statt und wird von der KfW Entwicklungsbank und dem Deutschen Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin) ausgerichtet.

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Keynote Speaker

• Alan Winters (Universität Sussex und Chefökonom DFID)
  Eliana La Ferrara (Universität Bocconi, Italien)

Ort

DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin

Ansprechpartner
im DIW Berlin

Kerstin Ringelhan

Tel.: +49 30 89789 441

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.

Zeit

12:30 - 13:30

Ort

DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin

Ansprechpartner
im DIW Berlin

Jan Marcus

Tel.: +49 30 89789 308

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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• Call for papers - Deadline November 30, 2010

Ort

Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg Delmenhorst/ Germany

Ansprechpartner
im DIW Berlin

Yvonne Lott

Tel.: +49 (0) 421-218  66355

Ansprechpartner
extern

Ekaterina Uglanova
BIGSSS, Jacobs University
euglanov@bigsss-bremen.de

27.09.2010 - 01.10.2010 SOEP SOEPcampus@Universität Bielefeld 2010
Dreiteiliger Workshop an der Universität Bielefeld

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 27. September bis 1. Oktober 2010 an der Universität Bielefeld ein Workshop statt. Die Veranstaltung richtet sich insbesondere an Doktoranden und Nachwuchswissenschaftler, aber auch an Studenten aus den Fächern Soziologie, Ökonomie, Politikwissenschaft und Psychologie. Sie wird vom Rat für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsdaten finanziell gefördert und ist Teil der RatSWD-Nachwuchsworkshop-Reihe. Der Workshop besteht aus drei Modulen, die einzeln oder zusammen besucht werden können.

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Ort

Universität Bielefeld

Ansprechpartner
extern

Kristina Brosda
Universität Bielefeld, Arbeitsbereich V Sozialstrukturanalyse, Fakultät für Soziologie
E-mail: soepcampus@uni-bielefeld.de

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.

Zeit

12.30 - 13.30

Ort

DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin

Ansprechpartner
im DIW Berlin

Eva M. Berger

Tel.: +49 30 89789 228

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.

Zeit

12.30 - 13.30

Ort

DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin

Ansprechpartner
im DIW Berlin

Eva M. Berger

Tel.: +49 30 89789 228

30.06.2010 - 02.07.2010 SOEP 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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• Call for Papers

Keynote Speaker

• Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln,
  Faculty of Economics, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt (Main)

Ort

Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin Raum B002/3 Reichpietschufer 50 10785 Berlin

Ansprechpartner
im DIW Berlin

Christine Kurka

Tel.: +49 30 89789 283