Small entrepreneurs in developing countries have considerable shortcomings in their financial behavior which hinder their advancement. Thus interventions have been conducted in order to improve financial education and, in the end, financial behavior. The average effect of such interventions is small. However, there are underresearched starting points for improving effectiveness, such as the...
Many people live in patrilocal societies, which prescribe that women move in with their husbands’ parents, relieve their in-laws from housework, and care for them in old age. This arrangement is likely to have labor market consequences, in particular for women. We study the effect of coresidence on female labor supply in Kyrgyzstan, a strongly patrilocal setting. We account for the endogeneity of coresidence ...
Consideration of contracting-out has been a mainstay of Thredbo conferences past, accounting for over half of conference papers. This workshop showed that contracting-out remains an important and vibrant theme, with 32 papers and some 50 participants from 20 countries. Case studies of contracting-out (and variants thereof) were presented at the national level for both bus (21) and rail (6). All stages ...
Gemeinsame Pressemitteilung von IAB, BAMF und SOEP am DIW Berlin Immer mehr Geflüchteten gelingt die Integration in das deutsche Bildungssystem und in den Arbeitsmarkt. Das zeigt eine gemeinsame Studie des Instituts für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), des Forschungszentrums des Bundesamtes für Migration und Flüchtlinge (BAMF-FZ) und des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) ...
Die Migration von Schutzsuchenden nach Deutschland steht nach wie vor im Mittelpunkt der gesellschaftlichen Debatten. Die zweite Welle einer Längsschnittbefragung von Geflüchteten zeigt, dass es deutliche Integrationsfortschritte gibt, obwohl die Geflüchteten beim Zuzug zum Teil ungünstige Voraussetzungen hinsichtlich Gesundheit und Bildungsniveau mitbringen. So haben sich ihre Deutschkenntnisse im ...
Most simulated micro-founded macro models use solely consumer-demand aggregates in order to estimate preference parameters of a representative consumer, for use in policy evaluation. Focusing on dynamic models with time-separable preferences, we show that aggregation holds if, and only if, momentary utility functions fall in the Identical-Shape Harmonic Absolute-Risk Aversion (ISHARA) utility class, ...
Based on highly comparable data from the OECD PIAAC Programme, this note analyzes the relationship between generalized trust and cognitive skills among 30 countries around the world. The results show that the strength and direction of the relationship is not a universal characteristic but varies substantially among countries worldwide. A detailed descriptive analysis of this variation provides evidence ...
