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Successful Presenting in English

This seminar provides you with tools and practice in essential rhetorical techniques and how to consider your audience when preparing and delivering scientific presentations. You will develop a presentation that is convincing and creates audience interest while also making your content clear and concise. We will examine typical differences between German and international English...

Writing good texts for academic journals

The Berlin School of Economics is pleased to offer a workshop on writing good texts for academic journals. It is designed for all doctoral students and researchers at the BSE who would like to improve their English writing skills. The training will provide practice and guidelines for improving your writing technique to help ensure clarity, conciseness and coherence. We hired an excellent coach who...

DIW-Studie zu Berlin: Mordrate auf OECD-Basis unplausibel, Kernaussagen des Berichts bleiben aber bestehen

Studie zur Situation Berlins im Vergleich zu anderen europäischen Hauptstädten muss eventuell an einer Stelle geändert werden – Offizieller OECD-Statistik für einen der 35 Einzelindikatoren (Mordrate) liegen möglicherweise fehlerhafte Daten zugrunde – Ohne Einbeziehung der Mordrate steigt Berlin bei der Lebenszufriedenheit von Platz 10 auf Platz 8 Am 20. Dezember ...

The Role of Aggregators in Facilitating Industrial Demand Response: Evidence from Germany

Industrial demand response can play an important part in balancing the intermittent production from a growing share of renewable energies in electricity markets. This paper analyses the role of aggregators – intermediaries between participants and the electricity market – in facilitating industrial demand response. Based on the results from semi-structured interviews with German demand response aggregators, ...

Selection into Employment and the Gender Wage Gap across the Distribution and over Time

Using quantile regression methods, this paper analyses the gender wage gap across the wage distribution and over time (1990-2014), while controlling for changing sample selection into full-time employment. Our findings show that the selection-corrected gender wage gap is much larger than the one observed in the data, which is mainly due to large positive selection of women into fulltime employment. ...

An Investment in the Future: Institutional Aspects of Credential Recognition of Refugees in Germany

Adding to the rich literature on the economic integration of refugees, this article extends the scope towards the role of institutions by focusing on the transfer of human capital by means of credential recognition. The 2012 Federal Act of Recognition in Germany is a new institution that provides the possibility to study the transfer of human capital in depth. I argue that analysing the decision for ...

Klimakriterien bei der Vergabe öffentlicher Aufträge können dazu beitragen, deutsche Treibhausgasemissionen zu senken

Nach Schätzungen des vorliegenden Berichts sind staatliche Käufe für mindestens zwölf Prozent der deutschen Treibhausgasemissionen verantwortlich. Diese entstehen vor allem im Zuge der Bereitstellung öffentlicher Dienstleistungen und von Bauinvestitionen. Durch umweltfreundliche öffentliche Beschaffung (Green Public Procurement, GPP) – die Berücksichtigung der CO₂-Bilanz von Gütern und Dienstleistungen ...

Das Engagement für umweltfreundliche Beschaffung sollte politisch und praktisch unterstützt werden: Interview

Warum eine Kita-Pflicht im letzten Vorschuljahr nicht für bessere Pisa- Ergebnisse sorgt: Kommentar

Green Public Procurement: Climate Provisions in Public Tenders Can Help Reduce German Carbon Emissions

This report estimates that government consumption and investment are responsible for at least 12 percent of German greenhouse gas emissions, mostly arising from the provision of public services and construction. Climate-friendly Green Public Procurement (GPP), which takes into account the carbon footprint of products and services in public tenders, can help reduce these emissions. Construction, and ...