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Outcomes of Unemployment Episodes during Early Career for Mismatched Workers in the United Kingdom and Germany and the Mediating Effects of Education and Institutions

Our research challenges the traditional view that unemployment is an unequivocal negative event in working life. We argue that depending on workers’ educational attainment and on national-specific institutional settings unemployment might have different implications on young workers who begin their employment careers in low occupational positions. The strongly skill-based and rigid labour market in ...

The Effect of Pension Reforms on Old-Age Income Inequality

Many OECD countries are raising the normal retirement age (NRA), thereby, making early retirement more costly. Whereas such reforms incentivize individuals to work longer, labor market frictions might partly undermine intended behavioral responses. Employing administrative data of West German men, I estimate a dynamic discrete choice model of work, unemployment and retirement allowing for labor market ...

Infobroschüre: Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft

The Prosociality of Intuitive Decisions Depends on the Status Quo

Previous research came to contradictory conclusion about the prosocial nature of intuitive decisions, as compared to deliberate decisions. This paper proposes the prosociality of the status quo allocation as a determinant of the prosociality of intuitive decisions. I present results from two experiments (N = 1,649) that manipulate time pressure and elicit response times in a binary dictator game. One ...

Information Asymmetries between Parents and Educators in German Childcare Institutions

Economic theory predicts market failure in the market for early childhood education and care (ECEC) due to information asymmetries. We empirically investigate information asymmetries between parents and ECEC professionals in Germany, making use of a unique extension of the Socio-Economic Panel Study (SEOP). We compare quality perceptions by parents and by professionals across 734 institutions. We detect ...

Regression Discontinuity Designs Based on Population Thresholds: Pitfalls and Solutions

In many countries, important features of municipal government (such as the electoral system, mayors' salaries, and the number of councillors) depend on whether the municipality is above or below arbitrary population thresholds. Several papers have used a regression discontinuity design (RDD) to measure the effects of these threshold‐based policies on political and economic outcomes. Using evidence ...

Welfare Effects of TTIP in a DSGE Model

We analyze the welfare effects of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the United States (US) and the European Union (EU). Earlier TTIP studies analyze welfare effects in a framework where output and welfare coincide. We believe that the utility function of households, which depends on consumption and employment, is the best criterion for assessing TTIP. We measure the ...

Video Data Analysis: A Methodological Frame for a Novel Research Trend

Since the early 2000s, the proliferation of cameras, whether in mobile phones or CCTV, led to a sharp increase in visual recordings of human behavior. This vast pool of data enables new approaches to analyzing situational dynamics. Application is both qualitative and quantitative and ranges widely in fields such as sociology, psychology, criminology, and education. Despite the potential and numerous ...

Kleinere Klassen können zu besseren Leistungen in den Fächern Deutsch und Mathematik führen

DIW-Studie analysiert, wie sich die Klassengröße auf den Lernerfolg in Grundschulen auswirkt – Positiver Effekt einer reduzierten Klassengröße zeigt sich für große Klassen ab etwa 20 SchülerInnen – Dort führen kleinere Klassen zu besseren Leistungen in Deutsch und Mathematik – Auch der Anteil der Klassenwiederholungen sinkt in kleineren Klassen Kleinere ...

DIW Konjunkturbarometer Mai 2018: Deutsche Wirtschaft schaltet einen Gang runter

Das Konjunkturbarometer des Deutschen Instituts für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin) weist im Mai auf eine leichte Abkühlung der deutschen Wirtschaft hin: Es sinkt etwas, liegt mit nunmehr 102 Punkten aber noch über der 100-Punkte-Marke, die für ein durchschnittliches Wachstum in Höhe von gut 0,3 Prozent gegenüber dem Vorquartal steht. Alles in allem dürfte das zweite ...