The European Commission launched the 'Coal Regions in Transition Platform' on Dec 11th, 2017 in Strasbourg. This initiative shall support transformation projects and provide a high level policy dialogue on coal. In a next step several pilot regions were chosen, including also Lusatia´s coal region. This BSEC shall give the opportunity to discuss future steps needed on the European, German...
Jonas Jessen, from the Education and Family department, has been granted a scholarship from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) from June 2018 on. The Dean of the Graduate Center, Prof. Weizsäcker congratulates him on his success!
To internalize pollution externalities into household waste generation, Unit Pricing Systems (UPS) have been adopted worldwide. This paper evaluates the causal effects of a UPS on the disposal of municipal solid waste in Trento, Italy. To account for policy endogeneity due to unobservables, we employ the synthetic control method on a unique panel of monthly waste generation. Our results show that the ...
The Capital Markets Union (CMU) – an initiative of the European Commission – aims to unify and deepen capital markets across EU Member States by removing existing barriers to cross-border investment and, in particular, harmonizing financial and business regulations. However, harmonizing institutional frameworks across the EU Member States that historically have different legal traditions is difficult ...
Zur Klage der Europäischen Kommission gegen Deutschland wegen zu hoher Stickoxid-Werte in vielen deutschen Städten äußert sich die DIW-Energieökonomin Claudia Kemfert wie folgt:
Dieses Discussion Paper wurde auf Wunsch der Autoren zurückgezogen. - This discussion paper was withdrawn at the request of the authors.
In the 2011 post-Arab Spring migration wave, over 64,000 migrants landed on the southern Italian coast, with many of them potentially working illegally on farms through caporalato, a widespread system of illegal recruitment of underpaid farm labor run by Italian agrimafias. To test this hypothesis, this paper evaluates the causal effects of the 2011 migration wave on reported labor productivity focusing ...
DIW-Studie untersucht studentische Erwerbstätigkeit mit Blick auf Studienleistungen und Dauer des Studiums – Bei einem Erwerbsumfang von 20 Prozent der Regelstudienzeit ist die Studiendauer rund zwei Monate länger – Finanzierungsmöglichkeiten sowie Vereinbarkeit von Studium und Nebenjob sollten verbessert werden Bachelor-Studierende mit einem Nebenjob haben im Durchschnitt ...
