First Year Winter Term Summer Term Second to Fifth Year Graduate Center Program Structure During winter term of the first year, doctoral students will take the following core courses: Preparatory Math Course The Preparatory Math Course provides the general background in mathematics and statistics necessary for the first year courses and for research related work in economics in general. ...
We analyze whether start-up rates in different industries systematically change with business cycle variables. Using a unique data set at the industry level, we mostly find correlations that are consistent with counter-cyclical influences of the business cycle on entries in both innovative and non-innovative industries. Entries into the large-scale industries, including the innovative part of manufacturing, ...
We advance the literature on political budget cycles by testing for cycles in expenditures for elections to the legislative and the executive branches. Using municipal data, we identify cycles independently for the two branches, evaluate the effects of overlaps, and account for general year effects. We find sizable effects on expenditures before legislative elections and even larger effects before ...
In this paper, we study the employment of workers from Central, Eastern and Southeastern European (CESEE) EU Member States in Austria after the Eastern enlargement of the European Union. To prevent a sudden rush of immigrants into the labor market, Austria opted for a transition period during which immigration remained restricted. We will show that these restrictions had the anticipated effect; while ...
Der Leibniz-Forschungsverbund (LERN) Bildungspotenziale veranstaltet jährlich ein Bildungspolitisches Forum. Dieses Jahr findet es am Dienstag, den 25. September in Berlin statt und widmet sich dem aktuellen Thema: „Potenziale früher Bildung: Früh übt sich, ...". Hauptorganisator neben der Koordinierungsstelle des LERN-Verbundes ist das DIW Berlin zusammen mit dem Leibniz-Institut ...
This paper studies the extent to which working couples can insure one another against cyclical fluctuations in the labor market and examines the implications of joint household decision-making for cyclical fluctuations in the unemployment rate. For this purpose, I provide a dynamic life-cycle model of households that make joint savings and job search decisions in the presence of aggregate shocks. I ...
Dieses Projekt ist ein Kooperationsprojekt mit dem Forschungsdatenzentrum der deutschen Rentenversicherung (FDZ-RV). Das Projekt zielt auf ein record linkage der Befragungsdaten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) mit individuellen Administrativdaten der Deutschen Rentenversicherung, welche Erwerbs- bzw. Rentenbiografien auf monatlicher Basis für abhängig Beschäftigte ab Alter 14 enthalten.
This project is being carried out in cooperation with the Research Data Centre of the German Pension Insurance (FDZ-RV). It aims at linking survey data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) with individual administrative data from the German Pension Insurance. The administrative data contain monthly employment and pension histories on individuals in dependent employment starting at the age of 14.
